# YouTube & Creator Sponsorship Lead Harvester with Emails (`candid_rookery/youtube-creator-sponsorship-leads-harvester`) Actor

Extract YouTube creator leads, verified business emails, social links (Instagram, Twitter, TikTok), subscriber counts, average views, and personalized sponsorship outreach pitches by keyword or channel URL. 200% capability standard.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/candid_rookery/youtube-creator-sponsorship-leads-harvester.md
- **Developed by:** [Dominator](https://apify.com/candid_rookery) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 🎥 YouTube & Creator Sponsorship Lead Harvester with Emails

**The gold standard B2B tool for influencer agencies, SaaS brand deals, sponsorship outbound, and creator managers.**

Extract verified business inquiry emails, linked social profiles (Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, Discord), subscriber tiers, and custom sponsorship outreach pitches across YouTube channels in any niche.

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### ⚡ Why This Beats Standard YouTube Scrapers (200% Capability Standard)

Most YouTube scrapers only return public metadata (titles, view counts) and fail completely on contact information.

Our Harvester is engineered specifically for **commercial outbound and brand deals**:

1. **Direct Email Extraction**: Scans channel about text, descriptions, and linked bio pages (Linktree, Beacons, Stan Store, custom websites) for valid business emails.
2. **Linked Social Footprint**: Captures the creator's Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, and Discord channels.
3. **Sponsorship Pricing Tier Estimator**: Automatically evaluates subscriber volume to calculate estimated sponsor rates (Micro, Mid, Macro, VIP).
4. **Instantly / Apollo Ready**: Exports flat, clean data tables with clean channel names and zero junk rows.
5. **Personalized Cold Outreach Pitch**: Generates customized icebreakers ready for cold email campaigns.

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### 📥 Input Options

- `searchKeywords`: Array of keywords or niches (e.g. `["AI productivity", "fintech", "fitness"]`).
- `channelUrls`: Optional list of direct channel URLs to inspect.
- `maxResults`: Total number of creators to harvest (default 10).
- `extractSocials`: Whether to crawl linked social profiles (default true).
- `generatePitch`: Whether to calculate sponsorship tier and icebreakers (default true).

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### 📤 Sample Output Record

```json
{
  "channel_id": "UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw",
  "channel_name": "AI Productivity Tech",
  "handle": "@aiproductivitytech",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@aiproductivitytech",
  "email": "partnerships@aiproductivity.io",
  "subscribers": "142K subscribers",
  "subscriber_count_est": 142000,
  "sponsor_tier": "MID-TIER ($1,000 - $3,500 / integration)",
  "socials": {
    "instagram": "https://instagram.com/aiproductivity",
    "twitter": "https://x.com/aiproductivity",
    "tiktok": null,
    "discord": "https://discord.gg/aiproductivity"
  },
  "cold_pitch": "Hey AI Productivity Tech team, loved your recent coverage of AI automation workflows. We'd love to sponsor a 60-second integration featuring our workflow tool. Are you currently taking sponsors for next month?",
  "instantly_ready": true,
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-07T02:30:00Z"
}
```

***

### ⚖️ Compliance & Privacy

This Actor exclusively accesses public channel information that creators have deliberately posted for business inquiries and sponsorship outreach. Zero login or account credentials required.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keywords or niche categories to discover channels (e.g. 'AI productivity', 'tech review', 'SaaS founder').

## `channelUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional list of direct YouTube channel URLs to scrape directly.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of channels to extract across all queries.

## `extractSocials` (type: `boolean`):

Automatically crawl and parse Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, and Discord links from bio and link-trees.

## `generatePitch` (type: `boolean`):

Generate ready-to-send personalized sponsorship email pitch and estimate recommended sponsor rate tier.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchKeywords": [
    "AI productivity"
  ],
  "channelUrls": [],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "extractSocials": true,
  "generatePitch": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

URL to the extracted verified creator leads dataset in JSON format

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("candid_rookery/youtube-creator-sponsorship-leads-harvester").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("candid_rookery/youtube-creator-sponsorship-leads-harvester").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call candid_rookery/youtube-creator-sponsorship-leads-harvester --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,candid_rookery/youtube-creator-sponsorship-leads-harvester"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/mmrDBBf8goxohUE64/builds/svBV2BS1faxSnOJ6f/openapi.json