Influencer Audit — YouTube Fake Follower Checker, Engagement Rate & Brand Safety Scan (No API)

Vet any YouTube creator BEFORE you pay for a sponsorship. Paste one or more channels and get a one-click audit: real engagement rate, suspected fake / inflated subscribers, view consistency, a brand-safety scan of recent titles and descriptions, and a clear GOOD FIT / CAUTION / AVOID verdict with a 0–100 creator score. It reads only public YouTube data — no API key, no login, no cookie, no OAuth token.

🏆 Why this influencer audit?

One decision-ready verdict + creator score per channel · real engagement (views ÷ subscribers), not vanity follower counts · brand-safety lexicon scan with the exact flagged categories & terms · bulk-screen a whole roster in one run · export to JSON / CSV / Excel. The pay-per-result influencer-vetting-platform alternative — no seat fees, no subscription, full API access.

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✨ What this Actor does / Key features

• 🕵️ All-in-one creator vetting — an influencer audit, fake-follower checker, YouTube engagement checker and brand-safety screener in a single run.
• ✅ Decision-ready verdict — every channel gets GOOD FIT, CAUTION or AVOID plus a creatorScore (0–100) that blends engagement health, authenticity and brand safety.
• 📉 Real engagement, not vanity — measures average recent views vs subscribers to compute a true engagementRatePct, the metric that actually predicts campaign performance.
• 🚩 Fake / inflated-subscriber detection — a huge follower count paired with low, erratic views is flagged in authenticityFlags, exposing bought-audience patterns.
• 📊 View-consistency check — viewConsistencyCV catches spiky, view-bought or one-off-viral channels that don't have a reliable audience.
• 🛡️ Brand-safety scan — recent video titles and descriptions are matched against unsafe-content categories (adult, hate, violence, drugs, gambling, scam, profanity); every hit is listed in flaggedCategories and flaggedTerms.
• 📧 Outreach-ready — returns the creator's public contactEmail (when available), country and topic keywords so you can move straight from vetting to outreach.
• 📦 Bulk roster screening — pass dozens of @handles, channel IDs or URLs and audit them all in one run.
• 🔑 Fully keyless — no YouTube account, OAuth flow or API quota; it reads publicly available channel and video data over plain HTTP.
• 📤 Clean structured export — one row per creator, ready for JSON, CSV, Excel or the Apify API.

🚀 Quick start (3 steps)

1. Configure — add YouTube channels (@handles, UC… IDs, or full channel URLs) and set how many recent videos to analyze (more videos = a steadier engagement signal).
2. Run — click Start. The Actor pulls each channel's recent uploads, computes engagement and consistency, runs the brand-safety scan and assigns a verdict.
3. Get your data — read the verdict + flags in the Output tab, or export the dataset to JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull it live via the Apify API.

📥 Input

Provide at least one channel in channels. Everything else is optional.

Example — vet two flagship creators

{
  "channels": ["@mkbhd", "@MrBeast"],
  "recentVideosToAnalyze": 15
}

Example — bulk-screen a sponsorship shortlist

{
  "channels": [
    "@LinusTechTips",
    "UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw",
    "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
    "@veritasium",
    "@Mrwhosetheboss"
  ],
  "recentVideosToAnalyze": 20,
  "maxResults": 50
}

Example — deep-signal audit of a single creator

{
  "channels": ["@LinusTechTips"],
  "recentVideosToAnalyze": 30
}

Field	Type	Description
channels	array	YouTube channel @handles, IDs (UC…) or URLs to audit. Required.
recentVideosToAnalyze	integer	How many recent videos to use for engagement & brand-safety analysis (3–30, default 15). More videos = a steadier, less noisy signal.
maxResults	integer	Stop after this many audits. 0 = no limit (default).

📤 Output

One row per creator — a decision-ready audit with verdict, scores and the raw signals behind them. Here is a trimmed sample record:

{
  "channelTitle": "Marques Brownlee",
  "handle": "@mkbhd",
  "verdict": "GOOD FIT",
  "creatorScore": 100,
  "brandSafetyScore": 100,
  "engagementRatePct": 17.58,
  "engagementHealth": "Strong",
  "viewConsistencyCV": 0.42,
  "subscriberCount": 21000000,
  "avgRecentViews": 3691667,
  "authenticityFlags": [],
  "flaggedCategories": [],
  "flaggedTerms": [],
  "contactEmail": "business@mkbhd.com",
  "country": "US"
}

💡 Use cases

• Qualify creators before you pay — run the audit before sending product, cash or a contract, and skip anyone with a bought or unsafe audience.
• Bulk-screen rosters & shortlists — drop a whole list of applicants or a managed roster in one run and rank by creatorScore.
• Avoid brand-safety incidents — catch adult, hate, violence, gambling or scam signals in recent content before your brand is associated with them.
• Detect fake / inflated subscribers — surface channels whose subscriber count doesn't match real view performance.
• Benchmark engagement health — compare true engagement rates across creators instead of trusting follower counts.
• Build outreach lists — export verdicts plus public contactEmail and country to feed your CRM or influencer-marketing pipeline.

👥 Who uses it

Brands & DTC marketers · influencer-marketing agencies · sponsorship & UGC teams · talent managers & MCNs · affiliate / ambassador program managers · creator-partnership and due-diligence teams.

💰 Pricing

This Actor runs on a simple pay-per-result model — you are charged per creator audit, with no separate Apify platform fees to calculate and no subscription or seat fees. Try it on the free tier first, then scale to a full roster. See the Pricing tab on this page for the current rate.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

How does this fake-follower checker detect inflated subscribers? It compares subscriber count to real recent view performance and view consistency. A huge subscriber count paired with low, erratic views is flagged in authenticityFlags as possible inflation — a classic bought-audience signal.

What does the brand-safety scan check? Recent video titles and channel descriptions are matched against unsafe-content categories (adult, hate, violence, drugs, gambling, scam, profanity). The Actor returns the exact flaggedCategories and flaggedTerms so your team can review the evidence, and lowers brandSafetyScore for each hit.

Is it legal to run this influencer audit? The Actor collects only publicly available YouTube channel and video data. You are responsible for using the results in compliance with YouTube's terms and applicable laws such as GDPR — especially any public contact emails you export.

Does YouTube have a public API for this, and is this an alternative? YouTube's official Data API is quota-limited and doesn't return engagement-health, authenticity or brand-safety verdicts. This Actor works as a no-quota influencer-vetting-platform alternative: it reads public data and assembles the signals — engagement rate, consistency, fake-follower flags, brand safety — you'd otherwise stitch together by hand.

Can I use it without an API key or login? Yes. There is no YouTube account, login, cookie or API key required — only an Apify account. It reads publicly available channel data over plain HTTP.

How do I export YouTube creator stats to CSV or JSON? Every run writes to an Apify dataset you can export to CSV, JSON, Excel or XML from the Console, or pull via the Apify API — a clean YouTube influencer data export for spreadsheets or your own tooling.

How much data can I get / can I audit a whole roster at once? Yes — pass many channels and screen them all in a single run (use maxResults to cap volume). Each audit analyzes up to 30 recent videos per channel for a steady signal.

Is this a YouTube engagement-rate scraper too?

Yes. It calculates each creator's real engagement rate from average recent views vs subscribers, so it doubles as a YouTube engagement-rate scraper and channel-data extraction tool — not just a pass/fail check.

How does the verdict actually work?

• Engagement health — real average views ÷ subscribers. Big follower counts with tiny, erratic views signal a bought audience.
• Consistency — wildly swinging view counts (viewConsistencyCV) suggest view-buying or one-off virality, not a reliable audience.
• Brand safety — recent titles/descriptions matched against unsafe-content lexicons; each hit lowers brandSafetyScore.
• Final verdict — GOOD FIT (clean, healthy), CAUTION (some flags / unsafe categories), AVOID (low score or unsafe content).

Which platforms are supported?

YouTube — the highest-signal, key-free source for true engagement data. It's the platform where subscriber counts and real view performance can be compared directly to expose inflated audiences.

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⏰ Scheduling & integration

Schedule this Actor on Apify to re-audit your active creator roster weekly and catch new brand-safety issues or slipping engagement before renewals. Export results to JSON, CSV or Excel, sync to Google Sheets, or push straight into your CRM, BI tools and webhooks through the Apify API. Connect it to Make, n8n or Zapier to auto-route AVOID verdicts to Slack or flag risky partners in your influencer-marketing pipeline.

⭐ Support & feedback

Found a bug or need an extra field (another platform, a new brand-safety category)? Open an issue on the Issues tab — response is usually fast. If this Actor saves you from a bad sponsorship, a ★★★★★ review on the Store page genuinely helps and is hugely appreciated. 🙏

⚖️ Legal

This Actor extracts only publicly available YouTube channel and video data and is intended for legitimate creator vetting, brand-safety and marketing-analytics use. You are responsible for complying with YouTube's terms of service, GDPR and any applicable local laws — including how you store and use any public contact emails you export.

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📝 Changelog

2026-07-06

• ✨ README overhaul: richer output sample, ready-to-run example scenarios, cross-promo links, and clearer quick-start.

2026-07-01

• Maintenance pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data and confirmed successful runs within the 5-minute quality window on the default input.
• Sharpened Store metadata (SEO title & description) and expanded the FAQ with high-intent, long-tail questions for easier discovery in Google and Apify Store search.
• Added ready-to-run example tasks that cover common real-world use cases.

2026-06-15

• Reliability pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data with real-world inputs. Routine maintenance build.

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for using the Actor as a no-API YouTube channel scraper, a YouTube engagement rate scraper, and exporting creator stats to CSV/JSON.

2026-06-05

• 🛡️ Reliability fix: results are no longer dropped by strict output validation — runs now complete cleanly even at high volume (thousands of results).
• ⚡ Stability & performance hardening; fresh rebuild.

2026-06-04

• Verified live & refreshed build — reliability/maintenance pass.