Attempting to download YouTube to play in Keynote

[Spokane]

VLC 3.0.12 running on Mojave 10.14.6 on a 2015 MacBook Pro. Hesitant to upgrade to Catalina or Big Sur due to perceived loss of functionality in iTunes. I am new to VLC. So far I have attempted drag-and-drop with no results. I have 15 YouTube links I want to put into a Keynote file for playback. My hope is to share the Keynote on Zoom.

[fkuehne]

VLC is not the right tool to download anything from the internet. It can play YouTube links, but downloading is hard. Use a designated tool for this purpose such as youtube-dl