About Chrome web store download
Chrome’s Web Store has a large number of apps and extensions that range from productive to simple fun. The Chrome Web Store is awesome but it doesn’t offer you any way to download extensions or apps without installing them. When you click ‘Add to Chrome’ the extension or app in question will download and install with no intermediate steps involved where you can stop the installation from happening. What this leads to is users unable to back up an extension in case it become unavailable later on. At best, they can backup the folders of a particular extension in their profile, or just backup the entire profile. Meet Chrome Extension Downloader. It’s a simple web app that lets you download any Chrome app or extension. You need to be able to access an app’s Chrome Web Store page or have access to the app/extension’s ID.Open the Chrome Web Store and navigate to the app or extension you want to download as CRX file. Make sure the ‘Overview’ tab is selected in the extension’s details’ page and copy the URL. If you plan on just using the app ID, you can copy the part in the URL that comes after the extension’s name. For example, the string of text that comes after ‘google-keep-chrome-extens’ is this extension’s ID.The ID is a great way to get the extension because you don’t necessarily need to go to the Chrome Web Store, you can just go to Chrome://extensions and copy the ID of an installed extension.Visit Chrome Extension Downloader and paste the link or the ID and click ‘Download extension’.Chrome extensions are pretty small so the CRX file will download within a few minutes of clicking the ‘Download Extension’ button.What makes Chrome Extension Downloader really useful is that sometimes, extensions that you find extremely useful are suddenly pulled from the Chrome Web Store making it so you can’t download them again via Chrome sync. This is a reliable way to back up an extension. The app itself is akin to the many web apps that let you download APKs from the Google Play Store to your desktop so you can later side-load them on your Android device.Visit Chrome Extension Downloader Fatima WahabFatima has been writing for AddictiveTips for six years. She began as a junior writer and has been working as the Editor in Chief since 2014.Fatima gets an adrenaline rush from figuring out how
Key features of the Chrome web store download that are enabled through these drivers include:
- Chrome Downloads - Chrome Web Store
- Web Image Downloader - Chrome Web Store
- Web Page Downloader - Chrome Web Store
- Chrome Downloads - Chrome Web Store
- Web Image Downloader - Chrome Web Store
- Web Page Downloader - Chrome Web Store
- Chrome Downloads - Chrome Web Store
Every Chrome extension, app or theme on Chrome web store is distributed as *.CRX file. Actually, CRX files are ZIP files which you can unzip using any ZIP utility like 7Zip or WinRAR. You can either rename file extension crx to zip or directly open them using ZIP tools. However when you install an extension on Chrome from Chrome store, it doesn’t let you backup or download the actual CRX file of the extension. Chrome just directly installs them without leaving the extension file.Though you can access and edit extension files and codes installed in Chrome as they are stored in your local machine, sometimes you need to directly get the CRX file without installing. Though Chrome made it harder to directly download CRX files, folks out there who made use of workarounds to catch CRX files and make them download locally. Here I am going to share two such tools that lets you directly download CRX files from Chrome web store without installing on your Chrome. This work is similar to directly downloading APK files from Google Play. 1. Chrome Extension DownloaderChrome Extension Downloader is a web tool with which you can download CRX files of any extension that exist on Chrome store. You simply have to copy the extension URL or ID from store and input it into Extension Downloader and hit Download extension. Checkout how it works.You can also have a one click CRX downloader both in Chrome toolbar and address bar by installing their extension.To install their extension, head to chrome://extensions page (or by Menu > More Tools > Extension) and drag the CRX file to the page.2. Give Me CRXGive Me CRX is a Chrome extension that adds a CRX Downloader button to Chrome context menu (right-click menu) when you are on an extension page on Chrome web store. That means you need to use Chrome to use this tool.Ultimately all Chrome extension downloaders works with same logic. As I said earlier, you can rename the extension CRX to ZIP to easily open and extract files inside an extension.Author: Jaber Al NahianJaber is a Programmer and Tech Enthusiast Geek from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is the founder and Chief-Editor of TechGainer. While he is away from his keyboard, either he's fishing or messing with wildlife. In case, you can contact him at rijans[at]techgainer[dot]com.
