Install an extension in Google Chrome to download YouTube videos

One of the actions that most users of both OSX and Windows need to do at a certain point in their interaction with the Internet is to download a certain video from the YouTube platform.
Today we are going to explain how to add the extension Chrome YouTube Downloader to the Google browser, Google Chrome, so that you can download videos from YouTube very easily.
The first step we must take is to look for the necessary extension for this and, of course, for the Google Chrome browser. That's what we're here for and we've combed the net to test and finally recommend the extension. Chrome YouTube Downloader . To download it you can click on the previous links or simply by typing the words (mandel design) in the Google search engine.
As soon as you enter the website, you will be able to see a download button in black in the upper right part of the website. We click to download the attached file, which in this case It is a compressed .zip file, so once downloaded we will have to decompress it.

We advise you to open the .zip file and the file it contains in .crx format You move it to your computer's desktop and reserve it for the next installation step within Google Chrome as an extension.

Once we have the .crx file on the desktop we go to Google Chrome and Click on the horizontal black stripes that are located in the upper right part of the browser window as a button.. Once inside the drop-down menu, we go down to the item Tools and inside it we click on Extensions.
Once we click on Extensions, a window will automatically open in the browser in which we will be able to drag the extension file that we previously left on the desktop. Once we drop the file in the indicated window, the system launches a dialog box asking us if we want to install that extension. You must hit the button Add.

After this step we already have the necessary extension installed in Google Chrome to be able to download videos from YouTube.

To use the extension, all we have to do is enter the YouTube website, click on the video we want to download and once it is playing, if the DOWNLOAD button does not appear at the bottom of the video, we just have to refresh the page in the browser bar for the extension to run and display that button, which if you look closely is accompanied by a little arrow that shows a drop-down menu that allows us to select different versions of it.

As you can see, this way you will be able to download videos very easily from the YouTube platform on both OSX and Windows, since as you already know if you are an OSX user, the Google Chrome browser is also available for the Apple platform. If you want to do this tutorial on OSX, you will have to first download Google Chrome and then follow the same steps that we have already explained to you.

Within OSX, Apple's default browser is Safari, and in a later post we are going to tell you how to perform this same action but for Apple's browser. We need a new extension adapted in this case for this browser and then know how that extension works.
Keep an eye on Vinagre Asesino and enjoy being able to save the videos that you consider appropriate for your daily life and to be able to carry them on your mobile devices without having to spend data rates every time you want to watch them.
Remember that this is a very simple way to download videos from YouTube, a way in which you do not have to download any extra programs to install on your computer, a way that you can quickly duplicate on any computer with Google Chrome.