# Turn Ruby conference videos into your own personal podcast

DevFeed: [Turn Ruby conference videos into your own personal podcast](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/turn-ruby-conference-videos-into-your-own-personal-podcast-26278.md>)

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Author: Justin Weiss

Published: 2015-07-21T06:58:03Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Justin Weiss](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/justin-weiss.md>)

Topics: [Ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ruby.md>), [Homebrew](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/homebrew.md>), [dropbox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dropbox.md>), [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>), [RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rss-feed.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

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## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to turn conference video talks into a personal podcast. It describes extracting audio with youtube-dl, hosting the file through Dropbox, and adding it to Huffduffer to obtain an RSS feed for a podcast player.

## Source excerpt

Ruby conferences are awesome. There are so many people sharing so much knowledge, and you'll take something away from almost every talk. And even if you can't be there, new conferences mean lots of new talk videos. But there's a problem. Videos take time. Even at 1.5x, they'll still last 20 or 30 minutes each. And that's focused time that's hard to find as often as I'd like. Podcasts, though, have already found a place in my life. I start almost every commute by firing up Overcast and listening to a few episodes. And besides the commute, you can listen to them while you walk the dog, or do the dishes. You can hear them as you go off to sleep. So, after conference videos are posted, I'd love to take some of the non-code-heavy talks and put them where I'll naturally hear them: inside my podcast player. And it turns out there's a pretty easy way to do just that. Creating a personal podcast with Huffduffer Huffduffer is a website that turns audio files you find anywhere on the web into your own personal podcast station. This is really cool! But there's a problem when you try it with conference talks: Most conference videos are conference videos. So, before you can add a talk to Huffduffer, you have to grab just the audio out of it. And to do that, you have to find a way to download the video. Fetching a video with youtube-dl When you see a video on a site like Youtube, Vimeo, or Confreaks, and you'd rather have it on your machine, you can use a little tool called youtube-dl. On a Mac, it's easy to install using Homebrew: brew install youtube-dl (You can install it on other systems using the instructions on the site). Once it's installed, if you wanted to download Kylie Stradley's great RailsConf 2015 talk so you could watch it offline, run: youtube-dl http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2015-amelia-bedelia-learns-to-code This is close to what we want. But to put it in a podcast, you only need the audio. youtube-dl supports that with the -x flag, but you have to install