# YouTube Channel Email Scraper (`lergassy/youtube-channel-email-scraper`) Actor

\[$0.02/e-mail] Find YouTube creators' e-mails in bulk: search channels by topic or paste handles, get the public business e-mail from the channel or the creator's website, plus subscribers, videos, website and socials. Channels without an e-mail are free.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lergassy/youtube-channel-email-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Matvey](https://apify.com/lergassy) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media, Agents
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $14.00 / 1,000 e-mail founds

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

**YouTube Channel Email Scraper** finds the **business e-mail addresses of YouTube creators** in bulk. Search channels by topic or paste channel handles and URLs; for every channel you get the **public e-mail** — from the channel itself or from the creator's own website — together with **subscribers, video count, description, website and social profiles** (Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Patreon, Discord, Telegram, Threads).

**$0.02 per e-mail found.** Channels without an e-mail are free (and hidden by default). No start fee, no login, no YouTube API key.

### What is YouTube Channel Email Scraper?

An outreach-list builder for influencer marketing, sponsorships, PR and B2B sales to creators. Type the topics your ideal creators make videos about — *home workout*, *skincare routine*, *personal finance* — or paste a list of channels, and get back the ones you can actually write to.

**Where the e-mails come from.** Creators publish addresses in two places: the channel page (description and links) and their own website. The Actor reads both. In our tests on 40 mid-size channels, **18% had an e-mail on the channel and another 20% on the linked website — about 38% in total**. It does not solve YouTube's "view e-mail address" captcha, and it never guesses addresses.

### What is in every row

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `email`, `emails`, `emailSource` | The address(es) and where they were found: `channel` or `website` |
| `title`, `handle`, `channelUrl`, `channelId` | The channel |
| `subscribers`, `subscribersText`, `videoCount` | Size |
| `description`, `keywords`, `avatarUrl`, `isFamilySafe` | Profile |
| `website`, `links` | The creator's website and every link on the channel |
| `instagram`, `tiktok`, `x`, `facebook`, `linkedin`, `patreon`, `discord`, `telegram`, `threads` | Social profiles |

### How much does it cost?

**$0.02 per e-mail found** — nothing else.

- Channels without an e-mail: **$0** (hidden by default; turn off **Only channels with an e-mail** to see them).
- Channels below your **Minimum subscribers**: **$0**.
- Searches, channel pages and website visits: included.

#### Bulk export: what 50,000 rows actually cost

This Actor is built for bulk jobs — dozens of topics in one run, or a weekly schedule that adds new
creators to your outreach list. There is **no fee per run, no fee per search and no proxy charge**:
you pay only for the e-mails you get.

| Job | This Actor | Most-used Actor in this category |
|---|---|---|
| 50,000 creator e-mails across 100 runs | **$1,000** | $6,000 |

Checked on the Apify Store on 23 September 2026 against the Actor with the most monthly users in
this category ($0.12 per row). Some Actors here ask less per row — this table compares against the one
buyers actually use most.

### How to use it in three steps

1. Type topics into **Search queries** (e.g. `home workout`, `bali travel vlog`) or paste handles and URLs into **Channels**.
2. Set **Channels per query** and, if you want mid-size creators only, **Minimum subscribers**.
3. Press **Start**, then download JSON, CSV or Excel — or send the rows to your outreach tool through n8n, Make or Zapier.

### ⬇️ Input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["home workout", "skincare routine"],
  "maxChannelsPerQuery": 50,
  "minSubscribers": 10000,
  "followSiteForEmail": true,
  "onlyWithEmail": true
}
```

### ⬆️ Output

```json
{
  "type": "channel",
  "handle": "mkbhd",
  "title": "Marques Brownlee",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
  "subscribers": 21300000,
  "videoCount": 1800,
  "email": "business@mkbhd.com",
  "emails": ["business@mkbhd.com"],
  "emailSource": "channel",
  "website": "https://mkbhd.com",
  "instagram": "https://instagram.com/mkbhd",
  "x": "https://x.com/MKBHD",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-23T12:04:11.004Z"
}
```

### Use cases

#### Influencer and sponsorship outreach

Topic in, creators with an address out — filtered by subscriber count, ready for your sequencer.

#### PR and product seeding

A list of reviewers in a category with their contact and socials in one row.

#### Selling to creators

Tools, agencies and services for YouTubers — the lead list builds itself weekly.

#### AI agents

Through the Apify MCP server: *"find 20 fitness YouTubers with over 50k subscribers and their e-mails"*.

### Integrations

Every run is available through the Apify API, and the Actor works out of the box with n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, LangChain and the Apify MCP server.

### FAQ

**Does it get the hidden "business inquiries" e-mail behind YouTube's captcha?** No. It collects addresses creators publish openly on the channel and on their website. That is why you pay only when one is found.

**Why did a big channel come back without an e-mail?** Many large creators route inquiries through a form or an agency site. Turn off **Only channels with an e-mail** to see them with their website and socials — free.

**Do I need a YouTube API key?** No.

**Is this legal?** The Actor collects contact details creators publish for business inquiries. Use them for relevant business outreach, honour opt-outs and follow GDPR, CAN-SPAM and similar rules.

# Actor input Schema

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

Handles or channel URLs — <b>mkbhd</b>, <b>@veritasium</b>, <b>https://youtube.com/@MrBeast</b>. One channel, one row.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Build the list instead of pasting it: <b>fitness coach</b>, <b>marketing agency</b>. YouTube's own channel search is read and every channel it returns is looked up.

## `maxChannelsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

How many channels to take from each search query.

## `followSiteForEmail` (type: `boolean`):

When a channel publishes no address, the site it links to is read as well. That is where a fifth of the contacts come from. Third-party addresses — booking widgets, site builders, platform support — are dropped rather than passed off as the creator's.

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

Skip channels below this size. Skipped channels are not charged.

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

Deliver only channels where an e-mail was found (default). Turn off to also get channels without one — those rows are free.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many channels to look up at the same time.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

A hard ceiling on what one run delivers and bills.

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

YouTube answers directly in almost every case; the proxy is used only when a page comes back without its data.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "mkbhd",
    "veritasium",
    "MrBeast"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [],
  "maxChannelsPerQuery": 20,
  "followSiteForEmail": true,
  "minSubscribers": 0,
  "onlyWithEmail": true,
  "concurrency": 5,
  "maxItems": 5000,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `creators` (type: `string`):

One row per channel: subscribers, video count, description, the links the creator published, their social profiles, the website and the business e-mail where one is public.

# 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",
        "veritasium",
        "MrBeast"
    ],
    "searchQueries": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lergassy/youtube-channel-email-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",
        "veritasium",
        "MrBeast",
    ],
    "searchQueries": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lergassy/youtube-channel-email-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",
    "veritasium",
    "MrBeast"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call lergassy/youtube-channel-email-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lergassy/youtube-channel-email-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/SEHKhdUPoVRT3iSBh/builds/CkAmEwoen5WO0qQrF/openapi.json