yt-dlp-downloader

The yt-dlp-downloader is a powerful automation skill designed for AI agents to retrieve media content from the web efficiently. It leverages the robust yt-dlp command-line tool, enabling users to interact with thousands of video-sharing platforms, including major services like YouTube, Bilibili, Twitter/X, TikTok, and Twitch. This skill is ideal for content creators, researchers, and developers who need a reliable, programmatic way to archive media or extract audio components for further processing.

• Full compatibility with yt-dlp functionality, allowing for high-quality video downloads, playlist processing, and specific format selection (e.g., 720p, 1080p, or best available).

• Specialized support for audio extraction, enabling the conversion of video content directly into MP3 format via ffmpeg integration.

• Automated subtitle management, allowing users to fetch available subtitles in all languages for accessibility and transcription purposes.

• Intelligent handling of platform-specific restrictions, such as using browser cookies (via chrome, firefox, safari, edge, or brave) to bypass 403 Forbidden errors common on YouTube.

• Thumbnail acquisition and flexible output path configuration to keep your local downloads organized.

• Prerequisites: Requires yt-dlp and ffmpeg installed in your environment. Use pip install yt-dlp and brew install ffmpeg to ensure full functionality.

• Inputs: Accepts standard video URLs or playlist links. Users can specify preferences for quality, audio extraction, or subtitles in natural language prompts.

• Outputs: Downloads files directly to the local file system with optional naming patterns defined by standard yt-dlp templates.

• Constraints: Always ensure browser cookies are configured when targeting YouTube to prevent download failures. Use the -F flag to list available formats if the default download quality does not meet requirements. Ensure network access is enabled for the shell environment executing these commands.