yt-dlv

yt-dlv is a Web scraping & data collection skill for AI agents, published by nhodges in the yt-dlv repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates yt-dlv D (55/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Download or inspect a YouTube video using this repo's `yt-dlv` tool (the Rust yt-dlp rewrite). Use when the user wants to download a YouTube video/audio, list a video's available formats, dump its metadata as JSON, or test that yt-dlv works end-to-end. Handles building the binary, format selection, ffmpeg muxing, choosing InnerTube clients, and the proxy workaround for the datacenter-IP bot block.

Grade
D
Quality
55 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
20

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Our review

Architecture
84 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
Low-risk patterns
License
Unlicense
Adoption
Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections

What the scanner flagged

  • mentions secrets in text

Not checked yet

  • Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
  • No blind task eval yet
  • Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
  • Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only

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