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Download YouTube videos in Google Chrome

This page was last updated on August 16, 2010

We all watch YouTube videos and sometimes we love a video so much that we want to save it to the local hard disk for later watching. You can download and save YouTube videos using an extension in Google Chrome. Here is how :

  1. Visit https://chrome.google.com/extensions/ in the Google Chrome browser.
  2. Click on the blue Install button to install the YouTube Downloader extension
    Download YouTube Downloader extension for Chrome
  3. It will prompt you for confirmation. Click on Install to proceed.
    Install YouTube Downloader extension for Chrome
  4. After YouTube Downloader is installed in your Chrome browser, try opening a YouTube video. You will see a Download button below the YouTube video as shown :
    Using YouTube Downloader extension for Chrome
  5. Click on the Download button and select a resolution of video to download. You can choose from resolutions like 360p, 480p or 720p. You will see that Chrome starts to download the file immediately as shown,
    Downloading YouTube videos in Chrome

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