YouTube Channel Email Scraper

Extract email addresses from YouTube channels at scale. 12x cheaper than competitors at just $0.01/result.

Features

• Description parsing — Extracts emails embedded in channel descriptions
• Metadata extraction — Parses ytInitialData JSON for contact info
• Linked site crawling — Follows linked websites to contact/about pages
• Keyword search — Find channels by topic (e.g. "fitness coach", "real estate agent")
• Multiple input formats — Accepts URLs, @handles, or channel IDs

How it works

1. Fetches YouTube channel pages using lightweight HTTP requests (no browser needed)
2. Parses the embedded ytInitialData JSON for channel metadata
3. Extracts emails from descriptions and page content using regex
4. Optionally follows linked websites (up to 5) and checks their contact/about pages
5. Filters out noise emails (noreply, image files, internal Google addresses)

Input

Field	Type	Description
channelUrls	string[]	YouTube channel URLs, @handles, or channel IDs
searchKeyword	string	Search YouTube for channels by keyword
maxResults	integer	Maximum channels to scrape (default: 100)
scrapeLinkedSites	boolean	Follow linked websites for emails (default: true)
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings (residential recommended)

Output

Each result contains:

• channelName — Channel display name
• channelUrl — Canonical channel URL
• subscriberCount — Subscriber count text
• description — Channel description (truncated to 1000 chars)
• country — Channel country
• emails — Array of discovered email addresses
• emailSources — Where each email was found (description, page-html, website:domain.com/contact)
• linkedSites — External websites linked from the channel
• scrapedAt — ISO timestamp

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.01 per result — 12x cheaper than the leading competitor.

Tips

• ~30% of YouTube channels have publicly visible email addresses
• Enabling "Scrape Linked Websites" increases email discovery rate significantly
• Use keyword search to find channels in specific niches for lead generation
• Residential proxies are recommended for reliable scraping