dl

What This Skill Does

The dl skill is a powerful, automated media acquisition tool designed for OpenClaw. It abstracts away the complexities of command-line media scrapers like yt-dlp, allowing you to fetch videos and music directly from major platforms including YouTube, Bilibili, and X (Twitter) with simple natural language commands. By intelligently routing downloads into dedicated folders—~/Movies/ and ~/Videos/ for visual content and ~/Music/ for audio—it keeps your local media library organized and ready for consumption.

Installation

To integrate this capability into your environment, use the OpenClaw package manager. Simply execute the command clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/guoqiao/dl in your terminal. Ensure that you have uv installed, as the skill utilizes it for isolated, reproducible script execution. Once installed, the skill automatically detects configuration files like .cookies.txt from standard system locations to bypass rate-limiting and access age-restricted content seamlessly.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for users building a personal media vault. It excels in scenarios where you want to archive educational playlists, preserve high-quality music tracks offline, or create a private streaming collection. By coupling this with a DLNA/UPnP server like Jellyfin or Universal Media Server, you effectively transform your workstation into a personal media hub, allowing your TV or mobile devices to access your downloads instantly over your local network.

Example Prompts

1. "Download this music video from YouTube: [URL] and save it to my videos folder."
2. "Can you grab this entire playlist from YouTube and save it as music?"
3. "Download this clip from X: [URL] so I can watch it offline."

Tips & Limitations

For optimal results, ensure your media server is configured to watch the target directories. If you frequently download from restricted platforms, keeping an updated .cookies.txt file in your base directory will significantly improve the success rate of your requests. Be aware that the script writes files directly to your local file system, so ensure you have sufficient disk space before initiating large playlist downloads. The skill provides clear feedback loops, informing you immediately when the download process initiates and, if using Telegram, delivering audio files directly to your chat for convenience.