Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @xanderrey/youtube-media-downloader
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install youtube-media-downloader
What This Skill Does
Downloads audio and video from YouTube URLs as MP3 or MP4 files. Handles single videos, playlists, and batch processing from URL lists with quality selection.
Auto-installs yt-dlp and ffmpeg without requiring system admin access, so setup requires no manual dependency management.
When to use it
- Extracting audio from a music video as MP3
- Downloading a lecture series playlist for offline study
- Saving a tutorial video before it gets removed
- Batch downloading a podcast channel
- Archiving a playlist to a dated folder
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: Download the audio from this YouTube playlist and save items 5-10 as MP3
AGENT
- 1Run batch_download.sh with the playlist URL and -s 5 -e 10 flags
- 2yt-dlp fetches playlist metadata and identifies items 5-10
- 3Extracts best available audio stream from each video
- 4Converts each to MP3 and saves with auto-numbered filenames
OUTPUT
MP3 files for playlist items 5-10 saved to the output directory