Influencer Discovery | Find YouTube, TikTok & Instagram creators with emails

Type a niche, get a list of creators. This Actor discovers influencers across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, collects follower counts, bios and links, and extracts public contact emails from bios, channel descriptions and the creator's own website. Ideal for influencer outreach, creator sourcing, affiliate programs, PR lists and lead generation, and simple enough for AI agents to call in one step.

What you get

Each profile row includes: platform, username, display_name, profile_url, followers, following, content_count (videos or posts), total_likes (TikTok), total_views (YouTube), bio, location (YouTube country, TikTok region), verified, category (Instagram), website, emails[], a primary email with its email_source (bio or website), social_links (cross-platform handles), the niche, and how the profile was found (search, seed or cross-link).

How discovery works

• YouTube: parses public channel search results and each channel's About page (description, country, subscriber, view and video counts, external links). Provide an optional YouTube Data API v3 key to use the official API instead, which is the most stable option.
• TikTok: discovers handles through public web search, then reads each profile's public metadata (followers, likes, videos, bio, bio link), the same approach as the tiktok-intelligence Actor.
• Instagram: discovers handles through public web search, then reads profile data through Instagram's public web profile endpoint, with an HTML meta fallback for follower counts (the same method as instagram-follower-counter).
• Cross-links: Instagram or TikTok handles found in a YouTube description or a bio are queued first on those platforms, so you get the same creator across networks.
• Emails: regular and lightly obfuscated addresses (name [at] site [dot] com) are extracted from bios. If none is found, the Actor can visit the creator's own website (home, /contact, /about) and read mailto: links. Only publicly listed addresses are returned; YouTube's gated business email is never bypassed.

Input example

{
  "niche": "vegan cooking",
  "platforms": ["youtube", "tiktok", "instagram"],
  "location": "Germany",
  "maxProfiles": 30,
  "minFollowers": 10000,
  "maxFollowers": 500000,
  "requireEmail": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

You can also pass seedProfiles[] (channel, TikTok or Instagram URLs) to enrich known creators directly.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.02
Profile found	$0.008

Example: 100 profiles cost 100 x $0.008 + $0.02 = $0.82. Profiles filtered out by follower range or requireEmail are not charged, and error rows are free. maxProfiles and Apify's max-total-charge limit both cap spending.

Reliability notes

• TikTok and YouTube usually work from datacenter IPs for small runs. Instagram aggressively rate limits anonymous traffic, so use residential proxies for Instagram. When blocked, you get a free error row with blocked: true and the run continues.
• TikTok and Instagram have no anonymous keyword search. Discovery relies on public search results, so coverage reflects what search engines have indexed for your niche.
• Follower counts from Instagram's HTML fallback can be rounded and come without a bio (see note).
• Collect and use contact data in line with GDPR, CAN-SPAM and each platform's terms of service.

Run locally

cd apify-influencer-discovery
echo '{"niche":"vegan cooking","maxProfiles":9}' > storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
apify run