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yt-dlp

Skill8 starsChanged 7 months agoApache-2.0View on GitHub

Download videos, extract audio, or fetch metadata from YouTube, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, and many more sites.

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yt-dlp

Wraps the yt-dlp CLI. Use for metadata extraction, format listing, and (gated) downloads to local disk.

Use when

  • "Download this video" / "grab the audio as mp3"
  • "What's the title / duration / channel of this link?"
  • Piping into openai-whisper for transcription (download audio → whisper)
  • Piping into summarize with video metadata + captions

Do not use when

  • Live streaming playback — use a media player
  • Bulk scraping of large channels — run yt-dlp directly with a queue

Tools

  • status — yt-dlp binary version + output dir
  • info — url → title, duration, channel, upload date, webpage URL
  • formats — url → list of available formats (id, ext, resolution, codecs, size)
  • download — url + optional mode (video default / audio), format (yt-dlp -f selector), audio_format (mp3 default / m4a / opus), output_dir

Write gate

download requires YTDLP_ALLOW_DOWNLOAD=true. Without it, returns -32041.

Env

VarDefault
YTDLP_BINyt-dlp
YTDLP_OUTPUT_DIR$TMPDIR/agent-yt-dlp
YTDLP_ALLOW_DOWNLOAD— (must be true to download)

Typical flow

  1. info to confirm the URL is valid and preview title/duration.
  2. download with mode=audio for podcast-style content, then feed the output_path into openai-whisper → summarize.

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