Yt-Dlp

by ykdojo

Yt-Dlp is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by ykdojo in safeclaw.

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Install Yt-Dlp

Copy Yt-Dlp into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw/tree/main/setup/skills/yt-dlp ~/.claude/skills/yt-dlp

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: setup/skills/yt-dlp/SKILL.md in ykdojo/safeclaw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/yt-dlp
Collection: One of 3 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2032 skills

What Yt-Dlp does

Yt-Dlp downloads YouTube videos, audio, and subtitles/transcripts from a URL. Use it when you need media files or transcript text for review or reuse.

Yt-Dlp is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Yt-Dlp comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, agentic-coding-tool, ai, claude and claude-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

yt-dlp

Download YouTube videos, audio, and subtitles/transcripts.

Setup

Check if yt-dlp is installed, and download it if not:

if ! command -v yt-dlp &>/dev/null && [ ! -f ~/yt-dlp ]; then
  curl -sL https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o ~/yt-dlp && chmod +x ~/yt-dlp
fi

Then use ~/yt-dlp (or just yt-dlp if installed globally).

Examples

Download subtitles/transcript:

~/yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --skip-download -o "/tmp/%(id)s" <url>

Download audio only:

~/yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 -o "/tmp/%(title)s.%(ext)s" <url>

Download video:

~/yt-dlp -o "/tmp/%(title)s.%(ext)s" <url>

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Yt-Dlp

What else does ykdojo publish alongside Yt-Dlp?
Yt-Dlp is one of 3 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ykdojo/safeclaw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Google Docs Reader and Slack Read. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Yt-Dlp does, and is maintained by ykdojo in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ykdojo/safeclaw page.
How does Yt-Dlp compare to other Automation skills?
Yt-Dlp ranks #1892 by stars among the 2032 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Yt-Dlp against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.