YouTube Creator Leads & Email Scraper

Build outreach lists of YouTube creators in any niche. Type a few keywords (or paste channel URLs) and get one row per channel with the public business email, Instagram/TikTok/X/Facebook/LinkedIn profiles, website, country, subscribers, and engagement numbers you can qualify on: average and median views of the last 10 videos, days since the last upload and uploads in the last 30 days.

Made for influencer-marketing agencies, brands running creator campaigns, sponsorship marketplaces, PR teams and anyone who needs creators they can actually contact. No YouTube login, no API key, no cookies.

What you get

Field	Description
title, handle, channelUrl, channelId, avatarUrl	Who the creator is
primaryEmail	Best public email found (own domain or free-mail first, domain checked)
emails[]	Every public email with source (about, video, website, link_hub), sourceDetail (the video or page it came from), confidence and mxValid
hasHiddenBusinessEmail	true when YouTube holds a business email behind its "Sign in to see email address" button (not revealed by this actor)
instagramUrl, tiktokUrl, xUrl, facebookUrl, linkedinUrl, socials{}	Social profiles from the About page and link-in-bio pages
websites[], links[]	Creator's own websites and every About-page link
subscriberCount, viewCount, videoCount, joinedDate, country, description	Channel stats from the About page
avgViewsRecent, medianViewsRecent, recentVideosCounted	Views over the 10 newest uploads
lastUploadDaysAgo, uploadsLast30Days	Is the channel active, and how often it posts
searchQuery, foundVia, scrapedAt	Where the row came from

The Emails view of the dataset lists one email per line, ready for a CRM or mail-merge import.

Where the emails come from

1. The channel's About description ("For business inquiries: …").
2. The descriptions of the channel's most recent videos (many creators only put their sponsor email there).
3. The creator's own website and its contact/about/impressum pages, and link-in-bio pages (Linktree, Stan, solo.to …).

Only emails that are publicly listed are returned. When YouTube hides the business email behind its sign-in button, the row says so (hasHiddenBusinessEmail: true) so you can reveal it by hand for the channels you care about.

Use cases

• Influencer marketing: find 200 micro-creators (10K–100K subscribers) in a niche who posted in the last 30 days and have a public email, then sort by median views.
• Brand sponsorships: shortlist channels whose average views justify a sponsored segment.
• Agency lead generation: creators are businesses; sell them editing, thumbnails, management or software.
• Market research: map who publishes about a topic, by country and size.

Input

Field	What it does
searchQueries	Keywords; each one can find up to ~600 channels
channelUrls	Channel URLs, @handles, channel IDs or any video URL to enrich directly
discovery	Channel search, video search, both (default), or only videos uploaded this month
maxChannelsPerQuery	Rows to save per keyword
onlyWithEmail	Save only channels with a public email (skipped channels are not charged)
minSubscribers / maxSubscribers	Size filter
countries / keepUnknownCountry	Country filter (English names as YouTube shows them)
activeWithinDays	Skip channels that have not uploaded recently
recentVideosToScan	How many recent video descriptions to read for emails (default 3)
crawlWebsites	Visit the creator's own site and link-in-bio page (default on)
validateEmails	Check that each email domain can receive mail (default on)

Example input:

{
    "searchQueries": ["home espresso", "budget travel"],
    "discovery": "videos_this_month",
    "maxChannelsPerQuery": 100,
    "minSubscribers": 10000,
    "maxSubscribers": 250000,
    "onlyWithEmail": true,
    "recentVideosToScan": 5
}

Example output (one row, values illustrative)

{
    "channelId": "UCxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "title": "Example Woodworking",
    "handle": "@ExampleWoodworking",
    "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@ExampleWoodworking",
    "country": "United States",
    "subscriberCount": 397000,
    "viewCount": 28227701,
    "videoCount": 73,
    "joinedDate": "2014-08-20",
    "primaryEmail": "sponsorships@example-agency.com",
    "emails": [
        {"email": "sponsorships@example-agency.com", "source": "about", "sourceDetail": "channel About page", "confidence": "high", "mxValid": true}
    ],
    "emailCount": 1,
    "hasHiddenBusinessEmail": true,
    "websites": ["https://www.example-woodworking.com"],
    "instagramUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/examplewoodworking",
    "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/ExampleWoodworking",
    "socials": {"instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/examplewoodworking", "patreon": "https://www.patreon.com/ExampleWoodworking"},
    "recentVideosCounted": 10,
    "avgViewsRecent": 185000,
    "medianViewsRecent": 156500,
    "lastUploadDaysAgo": 14,
    "uploadsLast30Days": 1,
    "searchQuery": "woodworking",
    "foundVia": "channels",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-19T01:26:59Z"
}

Scheduling and integrations

Run it on a schedule (for example weekly with discovery: videos_this_month) to catch new and newly active creators, and send the dataset to Google Sheets, HubSpot, Airtable, Make, Zapier or a webhook from the run's Integrations tab. Re-running the same input after an interruption resumes where it stopped without duplicate rows.

Use it from AI assistants

The actor works as a tool through the Apify MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT and other agents can call it with a keyword and filters and get creators back as JSON.

FAQ

Does it reveal the email behind YouTube's "Sign in to see email address" button? No. That address needs a signed-in Google account and a CAPTCHA, so the actor only flags it with hasHiddenBusinessEmail.

How many channels have a public email? It depends on the niche. In our tests about 60% of tech-review channels and 12% of fitness-coach channels listed one. Raise recentVideosToScan for more emails; use onlyWithEmail to pay only for channels with an email.

How many channels can one keyword return? YouTube's search stops after roughly 300 channels per search type, so channel + video search reach about 600 per keyword. Add related keywords for bigger lists; channels are never repeated across keywords in a run.

Do I need a proxy? No. If YouTube starts rate-limiting, the actor switches to Apify Proxy by itself.

Is this legal? The actor reads public pages only and does not log in. You are responsible for how you contact people: follow anti-spam law (CAN-SPAM, GDPR/ePrivacy, CASL) and the platforms' terms.

Why is country empty for some channels? Many creators do not set a country on their channel (in our tests 10–45% depending on the niche).