# YouTube Downloader

> Download YouTube videos and HLS streams (m3u8) from platforms like Mux, Vimeo, etc. using yt-dlp and ffmpeg. Use when users request downloading videos, extracting audio, handling protected streams with authentication headers, or troubleshooting download issues like nsig extraction failures, 403 errors, or cookie extraction problems

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/plugin-daymade-claude-code-skills-youtube-downloader
- tashan id: plugin:daymade/claude-code-skills/youtube-downloader
- Source: https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills
- Type: plugin
- Category: other
- tashan score: 45.0 / 100
- Adoption: 7.0
- Upkeep: 100.0
- Freshness: 100.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
/plugin marketplace add daymade/claude-code-skills
/plugin install youtube-downloader@daymade-skills
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-23 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.