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[luismoramedina]

1 year working but suddenly appears this message with every video, including cat example.

Thanks and regards!

[GeoffreyPlitt]

I'm seeing this as well.

[maxhille]

I am sorry to inform you that I had to unpublish the app from Google Play after Google/YouTube pulled the plug on our API access.

Some more detail at https://lambdasoup.com/post/watch-later-bye/

[GeoffreyPlitt]

Man this stinks, I'm sorry to hear it. This app was my last resort for easily adding videos to my watch-later after youtube already shut down features like email-notifications and easy access to watch-later in the UI.

Cheers for keeping this going all this time.

[jschmid]

Thanks for the work folks! It was a great app!

[ElmorenohWTF]

Would there be any method to continue using it?

[maxhille]

@ElmorenohWTF you can in principle build the app yourself with your own Youtube API token.

This comment was wrong/misleading. See below

[GeoffreyPlitt]

Would love if someone could try doing that and report back if it works (and full instructions). I'd love to build this with my API token and use it on my phone.

[luismoramedina]

A configurable way to insert your token would be great, I'm not capable of doing a pr 😔

[maxhille]

Sorry my comment was misleading/wrong. A YouTube API token is not needed since a couple of versions. So you won't find where to put it.

The rough steps needed to build your own personal APK should be roughly:

1. Set up Android dev environment which can build the app
2. Create Google Cloud project with YouTube Data API enabled
3. Register your APK signature (probably from your local debug key) in the GCP project. Without this, you will not be able to add the Google Account with YouTube access in the app.

[ElmorenohWTF]

Would it be possible to make that process easier? I don't know, maybe including somewhere to put the YouTube API token? Or maybe some more detailed tutorial on how I could manage to perform the third step could help me.