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download

Downloads YouTube videos to ~/Downloads. Use when user wants to download a YouTube video to their machine.

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/bestisblessed/youtube-download
Or

Download

Downloads YouTube videos to your ~/Downloads folder using yt-dlp.

What it does

  • Takes a YouTube URL as input
  • Downloads the best available quality (video + audio merged to MP4)
  • Saves to ~/Downloads with the video title as filename

Usage

{baseDir}/download.sh "https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"

Or just give me the URL and I'll run it for you.

Requirements

  • yt-dlp must be installed: brew install yt-dlp
  • On first run, if yt-dlp is missing, the skill will prompt you to install it

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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-bestisblessed-youtube-download": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}
Safety NoteClawKit audits metadata but not runtime behavior. Use with caution.