YouTube Channel Business Email Scraper

Extract business emails that creators have publicly chosen to publish in a YouTube channel description or on a linked public website. The Actor accepts channel URLs, @handles, and UC... IDs, and returns one attributed record per resolved channel.

It does not log in, click YouTube's CAPTCHA-gated View email address control, guess addresses, use purchased datasets, or infer a private email. Every email includes sourceType and sourceUrl.

Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 resolved channels ($0.0015 each), with no run-start fee — plus $0.0025 per channel only when the optional linked-website audit runs.

Two live charge events, and that is the whole price list:

• channel: $0.0015 per resolved channel ($1.50 per 1,000). Charged once per channel, whether or not a public email turns out to be listed, because the channel record and its source audit were produced either way.
• website-audit: $0.0025 per channel, charged only when crawlLinkedWebsites is on. The audit is capped at two websites and two pages per website, so this add-on cannot run away with your bill.

That puts this among the cheapest YouTube channel-email Actors on the Apify Store, and the rate is flat: the same on your first run as on your thousandth, on every plan including the free one. Comparable Actors in this category commonly cost several times more per 1,000, and some many times more.

Invalid, blocked, empty, and diagnostic rows are never charged. Direct HTTP is the default; linked-site crawling and residential proxy use are both off by default, so nothing optional bills unless you switch it on.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
channelUrls	array	—	Channel URLs, @handles, or UC... channel IDs. Only public descriptions and linked public websites are inspected.
maxChannels	integer	50	Maximum unique channels to process in this run.
crawlLinkedWebsites	boolean	false	Audit up to two linked public websites for contact pages. Billed separately at $0.0025 per channel.
maxWebsitePages	integer	2	Maximum public HTML pages checked per linked website, including the home page.
proxyConfiguration	object	direct HTTP	Optional Apify Proxy configuration. Direct HTTP is the default and usually sufficient.

{
  "channelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd", "@Apify"],
  "crawlLinkedWebsites": false,
  "maxWebsitePages": 2
}

Output

Each successful row contains channelName, canonical channelUrl, primaryEmail, emails, emailSources, externalWebsiteContacts, filtered linked websiteUrls, websitesChecked, and a privacy note. primaryEmail prefers an address explicitly listed in the channel description. Linked-site addresses are labeled externalWebsiteContact and are not presented as the creator's primary contact unless the source is clearly attributable.

Feasibility and limits

Direct YouTube HTML returned successfully in local testing. The Actor uses only public channel-page data and small, same-site website checks. It does not attempt hidden business-email reveal, CAPTCHA solving, session-cookie reuse, or anti-bot bypass. Dynamic pages that do not expose public description data may return a successful channel row with an empty email list or a diagnostic row, depending on reachability.

Responsible use

Use only for lawful, permission-based business outreach and public-contact research. Respect applicable privacy, anti-spam, platform, and website terms. The Actor does not send email or perform enrichment.