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 proposal

Proposed events:

• channel: $0.0015 per resolved channel ($1.50 per 1,000), below the comparable $0.002 per result ($2 per 1,000) floor observed in the Store.
• website-audit: $0.0025 per channel only when the optional linked-website audit runs. The audit is capped at two websites and two pages per website.

A resolved channel is billed once even when no public email is listed, because the channel record and source audit were successfully produced. Invalid, blocked, empty, and diagnostic rows are never charged. Direct HTTP is the default; linked-site crawling and residential proxy use are off by default.

Input

{
  "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.

Local run

npm ci
npm test
npm run check
node src/main.js