# YouTube Creator Contact Scraper (`gocreative.ai/youtube-creator-contact-scraper`) Actor

Find creator business emails and socials from YouTube channel About pages and video descriptions. One row per channel with subscribers, country and contact details.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gocreative.ai/youtube-creator-contact-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [GoCreative AI](https://apify.com/gocreative.ai) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $6.40 / 1,000 creator contact rows

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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.

```json
"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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `channels` (type: `array`):

Any mix of @handles, channel URLs or UC… channel IDs. One row comes back per channel.

## `videoUrls` (type: `array`):

Video URLs or IDs. Each resolves to its uploading channel, so you can start from a video list instead of handles.

## `scanRecentVideos` (type: `integer`):

Also read this many of the channel's latest video descriptions, where creators often put a business email that is not on the About page. Set 0 to read the About page only (faster and cheaper).

## `onlyWithEmail` (type: `boolean`):

Skip channels where no email was found. Off by default so every input reconciles.

## `minSubscribers` (type: `integer`):

Drop channels below this subscriber count. Set 0 to keep everything.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

YouTube rate-limits cloud IPs, so runs go through Apify Proxy by default. Leave as-is unless you have a reason to change it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "@mkbhd",
    "@BroCodez"
  ],
  "videoUrls": [],
  "scanRecentVideos": 5,
  "onlyWithEmail": false,
  "minSubscribers": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "BUYPROXIES94952"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

# 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 = {
    "channels": [
        "@mkbhd",
        "@BroCodez"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "BUYPROXIES94952"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gocreative.ai/youtube-creator-contact-scraper").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 = {
    "channels": [
        "@mkbhd",
        "@BroCodez",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["BUYPROXIES94952"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gocreative.ai/youtube-creator-contact-scraper").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 '{
  "channels": [
    "@mkbhd",
    "@BroCodez"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "BUYPROXIES94952"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call gocreative.ai/youtube-creator-contact-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,gocreative.ai/youtube-creator-contact-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/kmaLusMAOiGez7sog/builds/qMgmRmnEzJnmju6Mt/openapi.json