YouTube Creator Contact Scraper

Turn a list of YouTube channels into a contact table — business email, social handles, subscriber count and country, one row per channel. Accepts @handles, channel URLs, UC… IDs, and video URLs (each resolves to its uploading channel).

No API key. No YouTube Data API quota. No browser automation.

It reads both places creators publish an email

Most channel scrapers only parse the About page. Plenty of creators leave that blank and put "business enquiries: …" in their video descriptions instead.

This Actor reads both, and email_sources records where each address came from — channel_about or video_description — so you always know the provenance of an address before you use it.

"email_sources": [
  { "email": "business@example.com", "source": "video_description" }
]

What you get

Field	Example
input	@mkbhd
ok	true
name	Marques Brownlee
channel_id	UCG7J20LhUeLl6y_Emi7OJrA
primary_email	business@example.com
emails	["business@example.com", "press@example.com"]
email_sources	[{"email": "…", "source": "channel_about"}]
socials	{"instagram": "…", "twitter": "…", "tiktok": "…"}
links	[{"title": "TikTok", "url": "tiktok.com/@…"}]
subscriber_count	21100000
video_count / view_count	1002 · 246000000
country	United States
joined	Joined Oct 10, 2019
videos_scanned	5
fetched_at	2026-08-15T19:44:02+00:00

Input

{
  "channels": ["@mkbhd", "https://www.youtube.com/@BroCodez"],
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix9cRaBkVe0"],
  "scanRecentVideos": 5,
  "onlyWithEmail": false,
  "minSubscribers": 10000
}

Option	Default	Notes
channels	—	Handles, URLs or UC… IDs.
videoUrls	—	Resolved to their uploading channel.
scanRecentVideos	5	Video descriptions to scan per channel. 0 = About page only, which is faster and cheaper.
onlyWithEmail	false	Off by default so every input reconciles.
minSubscribers	0	Drop channels below this size.

What people use it for

• Creator outreach lists — filter a handle list by size and country, then work from primary_email and socials.
• Sponsorship pipelines — find who to contact across a whole category in one run.
• Enriching an existing list — you have handles; you need contact details next to them.

Export

Results land in a standard Apify dataset: CSV, JSON, Excel or XML download, or straight from the API.

Notes

• Contact details come only from what the creator has published publicly — their own About page, their own link list, and their own video descriptions. Nothing is guessed, pattern-generated, or bought from a third-party database.
• Emails are returned exactly as published; this Actor does not verify deliverability.
• Channels that don't resolve come back as rows with ok: false and a plain-English error.
• Transcripts are not part of this Actor. It previously read video captions; YouTube now gates caption fetching behind a proof-of-origin token, so that path was removed rather than left to fail silently. Contact extraction never depended on it.