This issue was not caused by the deprecation of the Android Player API. We did it to ourselves. Read about our blunder here...
It's a day of mourning. YouTube killed the Android Player API. The secret sauce we (and many others) used to download YouTube videos.
I don't know what we were expecting, though. This isn't the first time Google stacked (software) bodies of it's own kind.
We're working hard to find a new solution to get access to your favorite YouTube videos and Shorts. We'll keep y'all posted