yt-audio
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Download a video's audio track as an m4a (AAC) file that imports cleanly into Instagram Edits / Reels. Use whenever the user pastes a YouTube (or other yt-dlp-supported) link and wants the audio, or says "download this as audio", "rip the audio", "grab the sound from this video", "get this for Instagram edits", "save this song", or similar. Fast, one-command process.
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Run it in the background if the video is long (it polls fast for short clips.
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yt-audio
Pull the audio from any yt-dlp-supported video (YouTube, etc.) as an m4a / AAC file — the format Instagram Edits and Reels import without re-encoding hassle. Saves to ~/Downloads by default.
When to use
Trigger on any paste of a video link plus intent to get the audio:
- "download this as audio" / "rip the audio" / "just the sound"
- "for instagram edits" / "for a reel"
- a bare YouTube/youtu.be URL following an earlier audio-download request
How to run
One command — pass the URL (and optionally an output dir):
~/.claude/skills/yt-audio/scripts/grab.sh "<url>" [outdir]It prints the final file path on success. Report that path back to the user.
Run it in the background if the video is long (it polls fast for short clips; longer ones can take 30s+). For typical short clips it finishes in a few seconds.
Notes
- Output is
bestaudio→ m4a at top quality (--audio-quality 0). - The script auto-recovers from a stale yt-dlp: YouTube periodically rotates its player and breaks older binaries with errors like "n challenge solving failed" or "video is not available". On first failure the script runs
brew upgrade yt-dlpand retries once. (This was the exact failure on 2026-06-21.) - Requires
yt-dlp+ffmpeg(both via brew). The script checks and tells you if either is missing. - For a different container (mp3, wav), change
--audio-formatinscripts/grab.sh— but m4a is the right default for Instagram.
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