VGrabWhen you need this
Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and Arc share Chrome's engine, so extensions built for Chrome run on them unchanged. What differs is the store: some of these browsers can't open the Chrome Web Store by default, or block the install partway. That's when you install from the package instead.
If the store works for you, use the store — it updates itself, and a hand-installed copy doesn't.
Four steps
- Download the package. On the homepage, just under the install button, there's a line reading "Installation package (.zip)". Click it.
- Unzip it. Inside is a folder called
extension. Put it somewhere you won't delete later — the browser reads the extension's code from that folder, so if it goes, so does the extension. - Open the extensions page and turn on Developer mode. Type
chrome://extensionsin the address bar (Brave usesbrave://extensions, Vivaldivivaldi://extensions, Edgeedge://extensions). The Developer mode switch is at the top right. - Click "Load unpacked" and choose the
extensionfolder from step 2. Pick the folder itself, not a file inside it.
The VGrab icon appears in the toolbar. Before you use it, reload any video pages you already have open — the extension finds video by watching page requests, and it can't see the ones sent before it was installed.
Worth knowing
Your browser will warn about extensions running in developer mode. It says that about every hand-installed extension, not about this one in particular. Dismiss it; nothing stops working. If the warning at every launch bothers you, use the store version.
Hand-installed copies don't update themselves. To upgrade, download the package again, unzip over the same folder, and press the reload button on the extensions page.
Phone browsers can't do this. Chromium-based mobile browsers generally don't support extensions at all. That's the browser's limit, not ours.
Checking it works
Open any page with a video and press play. If a number appears on the VGrab icon — that's how many videos it found on the page — it's working.