# YouTube Channel Email Extractor — Creator Contact Finder (`agoradelmediterraneo/youtube-channel-email-extractor`) Actor

Extract emails from YouTube channel About pages. Input handles directly or search by keyword. Crawls linked websites to find contact emails.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/agoradelmediterraneo/youtube-channel-email-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Agora](https://apify.com/agoradelmediterraneo) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 channel processeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## YouTube Channel Email Extractor

Extract contact emails from YouTube channel About pages. Built for marketers, agencies, and outreach teams who need to contact YouTube creators at scale.

### What it does

- Visits YouTube channel About pages directly
- Extracts emails from channel descriptions
- Crawls linked external websites (Linktree, personal sites, etc.) for additional contact emails
- Supports direct handle input OR keyword search to discover channels automatically

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `handles` | string list | YouTube handles without @. Example: `mkbhd`, `veritasium` |
| `searchKeyword` | string | Search YouTube for channels (used when handles is empty) |
| `maxChannels` | integer | Max channels to process (default: 20, max: 100) |

### Output

Each result contains:

```json
{
  "handle": "@mkbhd",
  "channelName": "Marques Brownlee",
  "description": "Consumer tech for the everyday person...",
  "subscriberCount": "18.9M subscribers",
  "externalLinks": ["https://mkbhd.com"],
  "emails": ["business@mkbhd.com"],
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
  "hasEmail": true
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per channel processed — $0.002 per channel.

### Use cases

- YouTube influencer outreach for brand partnerships
- Building creator contact lists for agencies
- Market research on content creators in a niche
- Finding collaboration contacts for other creators

# Actor input Schema

## `handles` (type: `array`):

List of YouTube channel handles. Example: \['mkbhd', 'linus', 'veritasium']

## `searchKeyword` (type: `string`):

Search YouTube for channels matching this keyword. Used only when 'handles' is empty.

## `maxChannels` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of channels to process.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "handles": [],
  "maxChannels": 20
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "handles": [],
    "searchKeyword": ""
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("agoradelmediterraneo/youtube-channel-email-extractor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "handles": [],
    "searchKeyword": "",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("agoradelmediterraneo/youtube-channel-email-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "handles": [],
  "searchKeyword": ""
}' |
apify call agoradelmediterraneo/youtube-channel-email-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=agoradelmediterraneo/youtube-channel-email-extractor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/umIFF5cMgieodTpec/builds/V68IDW9eIBZbL2wNb/openapi.json