YouTube Influencer Scraper 🤝 — Find Creators, Engagement Rate & Emails (No Login, No API Key)

Find YouTube influencers by niche and get the data outreach teams actually need: subscriber count, average views, engagement rate, business email and social links — for every creator. This YouTube influencer discovery tool lets you search by keyword/niche or enrich a list of channels directly, then exports to JSON, CSV or Excel.

No login, no cookies, no Google API key. One run surfaces dozens of contactable creators per niche, each scored by engagement.

✅ No login · No API key · Engagement rate computed · Business emails & socials · Subscriber-range targeting

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Why use this YouTube influencer scraper?

• Discover creators by niche. Give it keywords ("home workout", "tech reviews") and it finds matching channels.
• Engagement rate, computed for you. Samples each channel's recent videos and calculates average views and engagement rate (avg views ÷ subscribers) — the metric that separates real reach from vanity subscriber counts.
• Contact enrichment. Extracts business email and social links (Instagram, TikTok, X, Discord, Linktree, etc.) from the channel.
• Micro-influencer targeting. Filter by minSubscribers / maxSubscribers to find exactly the tier you can afford.
• Email-only mode. requireEmail: true keeps only contactable creators — a ready outreach list.

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How to find YouTube influencers (step by step)

No code required. Here's how to build a YouTube influencer list:

1. Open the actor on Apify and click Try for free.
2. Enter niches in searchQueries (e.g. ["personal finance", "home barista"]) and/or paste specific channels in channels.
3. (Optional) Set minSubscribers / maxSubscribers to target a tier, and requireEmail: true for contactable creators only.
4. Click Start.
5. Export your scored, contact-enriched list to CSV/Excel/JSON, or push it to your CRM via the Apify API.

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What data can you extract per creator?

Data point	Field	Example
Channel name	channelTitle	"Nischa"
Handle	handle	"@nischa"
Subscribers	subscriberCount	2180000
Average recent views	avgRecentViews	257500
Engagement rate	engagementRatePct	11.81
Business email	email	"business@channel.com"
Social links	socialLinks	["https://instagram.com/…"]
Latest upload	latestVideoPublished	"3 days ago"
Keywords/tags	keywords	["finance","investing"]
Channel URL	channelUrl	https://youtube.com/@nischa

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Use cases

• Influencer outreach lists — build a contactable shortlist of creators in a niche, scored by engagement, ready for your CRM.
• Micro-influencer campaigns — maxSubscribers: 100000 + minSubscribers: 5000 to find affordable, high-engagement creators.
• Sponsorship vetting — compare engagement rate, not just subscriber count, before paying for a placement.
• Agency prospecting — find creators to represent or pitch services to.
• Competitive creator mapping — see who's active in your category and how they perform.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	string[]	—	Niche keywords to discover creators in.
channels	string[]	[]	Optional: enrich specific channels (@handle/URL/ID).
maxChannelsPerQuery	integer	30	Channels to discover per keyword.
recentVideosForStats	integer	12	Recent videos sampled for engagement rate.
minSubscribers	integer	0	Minimum subscribers.
maxSubscribers	integer	0	Maximum subscribers (0 = no max).
requireEmail	boolean	false	Keep only channels with a contact email.
maxResults	integer	0	Global cap.

Example input

{
  "searchQueries": ["home workout", "healthy recipes"],
  "minSubscribers": 5000,
  "maxSubscribers": 100000,
  "requireEmail": true,
  "maxChannelsPerQuery": 50
}

Example output

{
  "channelTitle": "Home Barista Corner",
  "handle": "@homebaristacorner",
  "subscriberCount": 6650,
  "avgRecentViews": 3949,
  "engagementRatePct": 59.38,
  "email": "homebaristacorner@gmail.com",
  "socialLinks": ["https://instagram.com/homebaristacorner"],
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@homebaristacorner"
}

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How it works

This YouTube creator finder discovers channels through YouTube's channel search, then for each one reads its internal channel data: subscriber count, description, handle, keywords and recent videos. It computes average / median views over the recent sample and the engagement rate against subscribers, and parses email and social links out of the channel description. A fresh access key is fetched per run, with retries.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need a YouTube API key to find influencers? No — no key, no login, no quota.

How is engagement rate calculated? Average views across the most recent recentVideosForStats videos, divided by subscriber count, as a percentage — a widely used reach proxy.

Can I find micro-influencers? Yes — set maxSubscribers (and optionally minSubscribers) to target a tier.

Why do some channels have no email? Emails are read from the public channel description. Creators who only expose their email behind YouTube's captcha-gated "View email address" button can't be read — that's expected. Use requireEmail: true to keep only contactable creators.

Can I just enrich a list of channels I already have? Yes — paste them into channels (handles, URLs, or IDs).

Is scraping YouTube creator data legal? The actor collects only public channel data. Use it in line with YouTube's Terms and applicable privacy/marketing laws (e.g. CAN-SPAM, GDPR) for outreach.

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Limits & notes

• Subscriber counts are abbreviated by YouTube (2.18M) and parsed to an integer estimate.
• Engagement rate is avgViews ÷ subscribers over the recent sample — a proxy, not an official YouTube metric.
• Emails/socials come from the channel description; some creators don't publish them there.

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The complete YouTube scraping toolkit

• YouTube Channel Scraper — full video catalog & stats
• YouTube Search Scraper — find videos & channels by keyword
• YouTube Comments Scraper — audience comments for engagement analysis
• YouTube Video Details Scraper — exact views, likes & tags

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💰 Pricing

Pay-per-result — you only pay for the creators you actually get. No proxy or YouTube API costs.

🆘 Support

Want total channel views, country, exact join date, or emails parsed from video descriptions too? Open an issue on the actor's page.