Creator & Influencer Leads — TikTok, Instagram & YouTube in one export

Find creators on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube in a single run, enrich them with a contact email from the site they link to, score them, and get one clean row per creator. Every row has the same 48 columns whichever platform it came from, so a mixed list opens as one spreadsheet instead of three.

No login, no API key, no cookie, and no dependency on any other Actor. YouTube keyword search discovers new creators; TikTok and Instagram enrich the handles you supply.

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Why one Actor instead of three

An influencer-marketing agency buys an outcome — creator leads with emails — not a source. Running three single-platform scrapers gives you three exports with three different column sets, three separate crawls over the same websites, and no way to see that a brand's TikTok row and its YouTube row are the same business. This Actor does the website crawl once for all three platforms and cross-links the result in also_on_platforms.

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What it does, step by step

1. Pick platforms and targets — a YouTube keyword, YouTube channels, TikTok usernames, Instagram usernames, or any mix.
2. YouTube discovery first — each keyword returns roughly 30 channels, and every channel's About page is parsed for its description, links, counts, country, join date and verified badge.
3. Optional cross-platform hop — the Instagram and TikTok profiles linked from those About pages are scraped too (off by default, because each one is an extra billed row).
4. TikTok and Instagram profiles — fetched over HTTP/2 through a rotating residential proxy.
5. One shared email pass — every creator's linked site is visited (home, /contact, /about, resolving Linktree-style pages) for emails and social profiles. A link-shortener (bit.ly, geni.us, …) is followed to its destination and only that destination's own site is crawled; if it does not resolve to a real site the creator is left with no email rather than somebody else's.
6. Filter, score, cross-link — your quality filters run before billing, every lead is scored 0–100 and graded A–F, and rows that resolve to the same creator on another platform are cross-linked.
7. Export — a sortable table with five saved views, downloadable as CSV, JSON or Excel.

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What each platform can and cannot deliver

None of these three platforms publishes a contact email field. Every email in your export was either typed into a bio by the creator or found on the website they link to. Read the fill rates below before you buy.

TikTok

• CAN: full public profile — nickname, bio, bio-link, exact follower / following / likes / video counts (from TikTok's precise statsV2, not the rounded display numbers), verified badge, business-account flag and category, TikTok Shop seller flag, account creation date.
• CANNOT DISCOVER. TikTok serves no creator data to a logged-out client on /tag/<hashtag>, /search?q= or /search/user?q= — probed 2026-08-09: those pages render a rehydration blob containing zero usernames, and the search API answers 200 with an empty body without TikTok's signed parameters. You must supply the handles.
• NO ENGAGEMENT RATE. The profile payload's itemList was empty on 28 of 28 profiles probed and no play count appears anywhere in it, so a per-video engagement rate cannot be computed. Those columns are null on every TikTok row rather than fabricated.
• NO PHONE. TikTok publishes none.
• Email fill: the standalone TikTok Actor measured an email in the bio itself on 1 of 28 profiles (3.6%) and a bio link present on 15 of 28 (54%). In this Actor's own verification runs on 2026-08-09, 3 of 9 distinct TikTok creators ended up with an email after enrichment (an earlier build-test pass measured 2 of 7). A creator who links their own domain usually yields an address; a Linktree or a link-shortener usually does not.
• Needs a residential proxy in practice: the standalone TikTok Actor measured 34 of 34 handles returning data through Apify Proxy RESIDENTIAL with a fresh session per attempt (1.4 attempts average), against 3 of 15 from one un-proxied IP once it went hot. TikTok answers a hot IP with an empty JavaScript shell and HTTP 200, not an error — which is why every retry rotates the exit IP instead of just trying again. (In this Actor's own verification runs from a fresh un-proxied laptop IP, 15 of 16 handles still came back, most of them on the second to fourth attempt, and 1 was refused on all six. An earlier build-test pass measured 8 of 9. The un-proxied path works until the IP goes hot — which is exactly why the default is residential.)

Instagram

• CAN: the public profile record — bio, follower / following / post counts, verified, private and business flags, every link in bio with Instagram's l.instagram.com wrapper resolved, and the only engagement metrics in this Actor: average likes, average comments, engagement rate and posting cadence computed from the ~12 recent posts the public endpoint returns. posts_sampled reports that denominator on every row.
• CANNOT DISCOVER by keyword or hashtag. The only expansion is Instagram's own related-accounts list (discoverRelated), which starts from a handle you already have.
• NO BUSINESS EMAIL. business_email, business_phone_number and category came back None even on large verified business accounts (checked on @gymshark). The only email sources on Instagram are the bio text and the linked website — the same two sources as the other platforms. There is no phone column in this Actor for the same reason.
• PARTIAL DELIVERY AT VOLUME IS NORMAL, not a fault. Instagram rate-limits shared residential pools hard: the standalone Instagram Actor measured two consecutive 5-handle runs on 2026-08-09 delivering 2 of 5 profiles each, and this Actor's verification runs delivered 11 of 16 handles (the other 5 split between Instagram-side HTTP 400s and handles that do not exist). Ask for a handful of handles per run, expect some to be refused, and know that a refused handle is never billed.
• Instagram also answers HTTP 429 to every HTTP/1.1 request; this Actor speaks HTTP/2 (0/6 versus 5/6 through the same proxy in the same minute).
• Instagram occasionally answers HTTP 400 for one specific account (a broken business-category asset on their side, reproducible per account). Those handles are reported by name and skipped, not retried forever — 3 of the 16 handles in this Actor's verification runs hit it.
• Email fill: in this Actor's own verification runs on 2026-08-09, 1 of 5 distinct Instagram creators ended up with an email after enrichment (an earlier build-test pass measured 2 of 5). Both are tiny samples; treat them as an order of magnitude, not a guarantee.

YouTube

• The only platform here that discovers. A keyword search returns about 30 unique channels — measured 28, 27 and 36 for three keywords on 2026-08-09, combining YouTube's plain results page with its channel-filtered one. More volume comes from more keywords, not from a bigger number in the box; maxResults is capped at 40 for that reason.
• CAN: About-page description, the channel's published links (website plus socials), subscriber count, exact total views, exact video count, country, join date, channel id, verified badge.
• SUBSCRIBER COUNTS ARE ROUNDED by YouTube itself ("91.6K", "4.37M"). Every YouTube row carries followers_estimated: true so you can see which numbers are exact. Total views and video counts are exact.
• NO CATEGORY and NO BUSINESS FLAG. YouTube publishes neither, so category, is_business and is_shop_seller are null on YouTube rows — and the lead score is normalised per platform so YouTube leads are not structurally ranked below TikTok ones for a signal YouTube does not emit.
• Link and email fill varies a lot by keyword, so here are two independent samples taken on 2026-08-09, one from the build pass and one from the verification pass that followed it. Sample A (9 channels, keyword home barista plus one named channel): 5 of 9 had an email in the About text, rising to 6 of 9 after website enrichment; 4 of 9 published a non-social website; 7 of 9 an Instagram link; 3 of 9 a TikTok link. Sample B, re-measured independently (8 channels, keyword vegan meal prep plus two named channels): 3 of 8 in the About text, 4 of 8 after enrichment; 5 of 8 published a website; 6 of 8 an Instagram link; 3 of 8 a TikTok link. A broad keyword returns small channels that publish nothing — expect the low end. Reading the About page rather than just the channel description is what makes those link rates possible, and it is what makes cross-platform discovery work at all.
• YouTube answered every About-page request it made un-proxied from a laptop — 30 of 30 across five build-test runs and 78 of 78 across eight verification runs on 2026-08-09. The Actor still routes it through Apify Proxy on-platform because container egress is not the same network — but it deliberately does not use the residential group for YouTube, so a YouTube-heavy run does not spend residential traffic.

Across all three

• One row per creator ACCOUNT. A brand that runs TikTok, Instagram and YouTube comes back as three rows and is billed as three leads, because the follower counts, the bios and often the emails differ per platform and collapsing them would destroy data you paid for. Rows that resolve to the same email or the same domain are cross-linked with also_on_platforms so you can group them yourself in one spreadsheet step.
• Every row carries discovered_via, so you can always see whether a lead came from your input, from a YouTube keyword, from a link on a YouTube channel, or from Instagram's related accounts.
• Filters run before billing. Rows removed by your filters, handles that do not exist and handles that were blocked are never charged, and a run that delivers zero rows charges nothing.
• No phone column exists anywhere in the output, because none of the three platforms publishes one.
• The AI cold-opener is optional, runs on your own OpenAI or Anthropic key, is used once per run and is never stored.

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What data you get

One row per creator, best leads first, with the same 48 columns on every row. A column a platform cannot supply is null — never missing, never an empty string — so your CSV has stable headers whichever platforms you ran.

Column	What it is	Platforms
platform	tiktok, instagram or youtube	all
handle, name, profile_url	Username, display name, direct profile link	all
user_id, avatar_url	Platform user/channel id and profile picture	all
bio	Bio text (TikTok signature, Instagram biography, YouTube About text)	all
category	The platform's own business category	TikTok, Instagram
country	Channel country	YouTube
account_created_at	Account creation / channel join date	TikTok, YouTube
followers	Followers or subscribers — the column every follower filter uses	all
followers_estimated	true when the platform rounds the number (YouTube always does)	all
following, posts_count	Following count; posts on Instagram, videos on TikTok/YouTube	see note
total_likes	Lifetime likes	TikTok
total_views	Lifetime channel views (exact)	YouTube
avg_likes, avg_comments, engagement_rate_pct, posts_per_week, posts_sampled, last_post_at	Engagement over the ~12 recent posts, with the sample size	Instagram
verified, is_private, is_business, is_shop_seller	Account-type flags; is_shop_seller means a TikTok Shop seller	see note
email, email_source, extra_emails, email_status, has_email	Best address, whether it came from bio or website, extras, found/missing	all
website, domain, has_website	The first non-social link the creator published, and its bare domain	all
other_links	Every other published link (Patreon, Reddit, a second site)	all
instagram_url, tiktok_url, youtube_url, facebook_url, twitter_url, linkedin_url	A complete social card, merged from the profile's own links, the crawled website, and the link-in-bio page behind it	all
lead_score, lead_grade, lead_tier	0–100 score, A–F grade, hot/warm/cold	all
also_on_platforms	The other platforms this same creator was found on in this run	all
discovered_via	input, youtube_search, youtube_link or instagram_related	all
icebreaker	The AI cold-opener, when writeOpeners is on	all
scraped_at	Timestamp of the scrape	all

following is TikTok + Instagram. posts_count is all three (videos on TikTok/YouTube, posts on Instagram). is_private and is_business are TikTok + Instagram; is_shop_seller is TikTok only.

Five saved views on the Output tab: Overview, Email-ready, By platform, Social card, All columns.

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How the lead score works

Raw points, identical on every platform:

Signal	Points
Email found	45
Website / link found	20
Business or commerce account	10
TikTok Shop seller	5
Verified	5
Follower band: 5k–500k	15
Follower band: 1k–5k or 500k–2M	10
Follower band: any other non-zero	5

The three platforms cannot earn the same maximum, because YouTube publishes no business flag and no shop flag and Instagram no shop flag:

Platform	Maximum earnable
TikTok	100
Instagram	95
YouTube	85

lead_score = round(earned / platform_maximum * 100). Without that normalisation a YouTube row could never exceed 85, and anyone sorting a mixed sheet by score would see every YouTube lead below every comparable TikTok lead for a signal YouTube simply does not publish. Grades: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D ≥ 35, else F. Tiers: hot ≥ 75, warm ≥ 50, else cold.

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Input

Field	Type	Description
platforms	array	Which platforms to pull from. Default all three. A platform left out is skipped even if its handle list is filled, and the log names the ignored input.
searchKeywords	array	YouTube keyword search — the only discovery path. One per line.
channels	array	Specific YouTube channels: @handles or channel URLs.
profiles	array	TikTok creators: usernames, @handles or profile URLs.
usernames	array	Instagram creators: usernames, @handles or profile URLs.
crossPlatformDiscovery	boolean	Also scrape the Instagram/TikTok profiles linked on the YouTube channels found. Default false — it adds billed rows.
discoverRelated	boolean	Follow Instagram's related-accounts list. Default false.
maxRelatedPerProfile	integer	Related accounts queued per Instagram profile. Default 10.
maxCreators	integer	Hard cap across all platforms. Default 30, max 300. Handles you supply are reserved first, so discovery can never starve them.
maxResults	integer	YouTube channels per keyword. Default 20, max 40.
delaySeconds	integer	Pause between TikTok/Instagram profiles. Default 1.
minFollowers / maxFollowers	integer	Follower (or subscriber) range. 0 = no filter.
onlyVerified	boolean	Verified accounts only. Works on all three platforms.
onlyBusiness	boolean	Business/commerce accounts only. YouTube rows are kept unfiltered — YouTube publishes no such flag — and the log says how many.
skipPrivate	boolean	Drop private accounts (TikTok, Instagram).
onlyWithWebsite	boolean	Drop creators with no external link.
onlyWithEmail	boolean	Drop creators with no email found. Read the fill rates above first.
minScore	integer	Keep only leads at or above this score.
enrichEmails	boolean	Visit each linked site for emails and socials. Default true — the main email source on all three platforms.
writeOpeners	boolean	Write an AI cold-opener per lead. Default false.
llmProvider, llmApiKey, llmModel	string	Your own OpenAI/Anthropic key, used once per run and never stored.
proxyConfiguration	object	Defaults to Apify Proxy RESIDENTIAL for TikTok and Instagram. YouTube uses the standard pool so a YouTube-heavy run does not spend residential traffic.

Saved tasks from the three single-platform Actors keep working. maxProfiles, minSubscribers, maxSubscribers, onlyWithContact, onlyWithLink, onlyCommerce, onlyBusinessAccounts and keywords are all accepted as aliases, and the run log names each one it used. A legacy name wins over the modern one whenever the modern one is absent or still on its default, so pasting an old input never silently drops your cap or your filters and never bills you for the rows they should have removed. alsoEmitPosts, maxPostsPerProfile, hashtags and searchQueries are retired: this Actor delivers exactly one row per creator, and TikTok hashtag/keyword discovery does not exist.

Example input:

{
  "platforms": ["tiktok", "instagram", "youtube"],
  "searchKeywords": ["home barista"],
  "profiles": ["gymshark"],
  "usernames": ["gymshark"],
  "crossPlatformDiscovery": true,
  "maxResults": 20,
  "maxCreators": 30,
  "enrichEmails": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

JSON output sample

A real row from a run on 2026-08-09, trimmed to the filled columns (the other columns are present and null):

{
  "platform": "youtube",
  "handle": "SevenMilesCoffeeRoasters",
  "name": "Seven Miles Coffee Roasters",
  "profile_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@SevenMilesCoffeeRoasters",
  "user_id": "UCZQQDp_XZL1AkZ36ToAU_mw",
  "bio": "Comes from a Good Place, Takes you to a Better one. Roasted in Sydney and brewed in cafés and homes across Australia.",
  "country": "Australia",
  "account_created_at": "2016-12-13",
  "followers": 207000,
  "followers_estimated": true,
  "posts_count": 68,
  "total_views": 21965248,
  "verified": false,
  "email": "grow@sevenmiles.com.au",
  "email_source": "website",
  "extra_emails": "hello@sevenmiles.com.au, ramona.taxis@sevenmiles.com.au, training@sevenmiles.com.au",
  "email_status": "found",
  "has_email": true,
  "website": "https://www.sevenmiles.com.au",
  "domain": "sevenmiles.com.au",
  "instagram_url": "https://www.instagram.com/sevenmilescoffeeroasters/",
  "facebook_url": "https://www.facebook.com/sevenmilescoffeeroasters",
  "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/sevenmilescoffeeroasters",
  "lead_score": 94,
  "lead_grade": "A",
  "lead_tier": "hot",
  "discovered_via": "youtube_search",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-09T16:42:10.380780+00:00"
}

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When a platform comes back empty

A merged run must never hide a failure behind a short list.

• If one platform is blocked and another delivered rows, the run succeeds and the status message names the blocked platform and how many handles never made it into the dataset.
• If zero rows were delivered and a platform was blocked or throttled, the run fails loudly rather than handing you an empty spreadsheet that reads as "there was nothing to find".
• If zero rows came from your filters or from handles that do not exist, that is a legitimate empty result: the run succeeds, says exactly which filter removed how many, and charges nothing.
• Every run writes a RUN_SUMMARY record to the key-value store with per-platform requested / returned / blocked / not-found counts, the filters that ran, the per-platform email fill, and the number of rows billed.

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Use with AI agents & automation

Plugs straight into your stack. Use the Apify MCP server to let AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) run the scraper and read creator leads as a tool call. Trigger runs and pipe results into Make, n8n or Zapier to push new leads into your CRM. Or sync the dataset to Google Sheets so your team works from a live list.

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Pricing

You are charged per creator lead delivered after filtering. Rows removed by your filters cost nothing, handles that were blocked or do not exist cost nothing, and a run that delivers zero rows charges nothing. Keep costs down by capping maxCreators, leaving crossPlatformDiscovery off, and filtering before you buy. See the Apify Store page for the current per-result price.

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Other Flash Scrape scrapers

• TikTok Creator Leads Scraper — TikTok only
• Instagram Profile Scraper — Instagram profiles, posts and related-account discovery
• YouTube Leads Scraper — YouTube only
• Google Maps Leads Scraper — Google Maps business leads
• Multi Job Board Scraper — jobs across many boards in one run
• Smart Scraper by Example — no-code web scraper

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FAQ

Can I search TikTok or Instagram by keyword or hashtag? No, and no Actor can without an account. TikTok serves no creator data on hashtag or search pages to a logged-out client, and Instagram's search endpoints answer 302/401. YouTube keyword search is the discovery path — and with crossPlatformDiscovery on, the Instagram and TikTok profiles those channels link to become leads too.

Will every creator have an email? No. See the per-platform fill rates above. Email is on a minority of rows and mostly comes from the linked website, not the bio. onlyWithEmail will remove most rows on most lists — which is the point if you only want contactable leads, but do not expect a full sheet.

Why is engagement_rate_pct empty on my TikTok and YouTube rows? Because neither platform publishes the data it needs. TikTok's profile payload carries an empty video list (28 of 28 profiles probed) and no play counts; YouTube's About page has no per-video stats. The column is null rather than fabricated, and posts_sampled tells you the sample size behind the Instagram numbers.

Why is a YouTube follower count rounded? YouTube itself rounds subscriber counts to three significant figures. Those rows carry followers_estimated: true. Total views and video counts are exact, and TikTok and Instagram follower counts are exact.

Do I need a proxy? For TikTok and Instagram, yes in practice — both refuse datacenter IPs, so the default is Apify Proxy RESIDENTIAL with a fresh proxy session on every retry. YouTube does not need one and is routed through the standard pool so it does not spend your residential traffic.

Do I need an API key? No. Profile scraping and email finding work without any key. You only supply your own OpenAI or Anthropic key if you turn on AI cold-openers.

Is the same creator billed twice if they are on two platforms? Yes — as two rows, because the follower counts, bios and often the emails differ per platform, and collapsing them would destroy data you paid for. The two rows are cross-linked with also_on_platforms so you can group them in one spreadsheet step.

Is it legal to scrape this data? This Actor only collects public profile data that anyone can see without logging in. Use it for legitimate outreach and follow each platform's terms and anti-spam law (CAN-SPAM, GDPR) in how you message the leads you collect.

Can I export to CSV or Google Sheets? Yes. Every run exports to CSV, JSON or Excel from the Output tab, and the dataset can sync to Google Sheets or flow through Make, n8n or Zapier.