get_freaky is a ruby gem I built to make it easier to download videos from confreaks.tv. I built this tool because I was interested in saving conference videos from confreaks for viewing later, like when I have time to kill on busses and planes. It could also allow you to do things like automatically download a new conference video once a day or once a month with a cron job or something.

You can try it out right away with

$ gem install get_freaky

take a look at the featured video with

$ get_freaky featured You’ll see a short description of the current featured video as well as be asked if you’d like to download it.

See the github repo for the source and some more documentation/examples.

This is my first gem and it’s still really basic so I’d love to get people’s feedback on how to improve/refactor the code or what additional features could be useful.