YouTube Channel Email Finder: Niche Creators, Telegram & Web

Finds the creators of one topic on YouTube, Telegram and the web, decides which ones are really in that topic, and looks for their public business email — with the exact place each address was read.

• Find creators by keyword: YouTube channels and videos, public Telegram channels, blogs and course sellers.
• Qualify each one with a 0–100 relevance score and readable reasons. Off-topic channels are left out, not billed.
• Contact: public email from the channel description, channel links, recent video descriptions, link-in-bio page and own website, classified as business or personal mailbox.
• Look up channels you already know, or read the commenters of a channel as its engaged audience.
• No login, no cookies, no browser. $5 per 1,000 prospects, plus $15 per 1,000 emails found.

Who uses it

• Affiliate and partnership managers building a list of creators who actually talk about their product category.
• Agencies and freelancers delivering a qualified influencer list to a client, with a reason next to every name.
• SaaS, course and tool vendors looking for reviewers, educators and communities in a narrow niche.
• Sponsorship buyers who want the business address of a set of channels without opening forty About tabs.

Built for partnership and affiliate outreach, where the expensive mistake is not a missing address but a list full of channels that have nothing to do with your product. This Actor scores every candidate and leaves the off-topic ones out, counting them in the run summary so you can see what it refused and why.

What it does

1. Finds. Every keyword is searched on the sources you turn on:
   • YouTube — the Channels tab and the Videos tab of the search, because the best creators of a niche rarely put the niche word in their channel name. Each video leads back to its channel.
   • Telegram — public channels of the topic, found by web search and from the list you can pass in the input, then read through the public t.me/s/<channel> preview (description, subscriber count, recent messages).
   • Web — blogs, course sellers, training sites and software vendors, found by web search and grouped per domain.
2. Qualifies. Each prospect gets a relevance score from 0 to 100 and a short list of readable reasons:
   • how many niche words appear in its name, its description and its recent video or message titles (a name like OrderFlowSolutions counts, glued together or not);
   • audience size, and how recently it published;
   • minus the off-topic signals (vlog, gaming, music, entertainment) and the promotion-shop signals (paid promotion only, we promote your channel, buy views). Prospects below minRelevanceScore are counted in RUN_SUMMARY, not saved, and not billed. The scoring dictionary is built for you: your keywords and their meaningful words for any niche (and a ready-made, deeper dictionary when the keywords are about order-flow trading). Pass nicheTerms to supply your own vocabulary; RUN_SUMMARY.dictionary says which one was used.
3. Finds the contact. An address is looked for in the order a human would read: the channel or Telegram description, then the channel's own links, then the descriptions of the latest videos, then the creator's own website (homepage plus its contact and about pages). Every address comes with emailSource, the exact place it was read, and emailType:
   • business — an address on a domain the creator pays for, a role mailbox (contact@, info@, collab@), or a free mailbox the creator itself presents as its business contact ("Business inquiries: …");
   • generic free mailbox — a personal Gmail-style address with nothing marking it as a business contact. Addresses that belong to channel-promotion agencies are dropped rather than scored.

Three ways to use it

• A niche, by keywords. Fill keywords. Turn on requireEmail to keep only the prospects for which a public address was found; the on-topic ones without an address are still counted in the run summary.
• Channels you already know. Fill youtubeChannels with addresses, @handles or channel ids. Each channel is read directly and the owner's public email is looked for in its description, its links, its recent video descriptions, its link-in-bio page (Linktree, Beacons…) and its own website. These channels are scored for information and never rejected on their score. An affiliate link (/aff/, ?ref=) is never treated as the creator's own website, so a vendor's support address is not handed over as the owner's.
• The audience of a channel. Fill audienceOfChannels. YouTube publishes no list of a channel's subscribers, to anyone but the owner. What is public is who comments under its videos: the commenters of the latest videos are listed, each one's public channel profile is opened, and the email it wrote in its own channel description is collected. Rows come out with prospectType: "audience", audienceOf, commentsSeen and commentSample. Expect a public email on about 2% of commenters (3 out of 185 in our test runs), nearly all of them personal mailboxes.

What you pay for

Pay per result, nothing per run and nothing per page read.

Event	Price	When
Prospect saved	$0.005	once per row saved: a creator, channel or website that passed your threshold, a channel you asked to look up, or an audience member
Public email found	$0.015	once per saved row that has an email, on top of the prospect

Rejected candidates, duplicates and pages that fail are free. Examples:

• 1,000 qualified prospects, 400 of them with an email: 1,000 × $0.005 + 400 × $0.015 = $11.
• requireEmail on, 300 prospects saved, all with an email: 300 × $0.02 = $6.
• Audience of a channel, 5,000 commenters read, 100 with a public email (default: only those are saved): $2.

The spending limit you set on a run is respected: the Actor stops saving when it is reached.

Input

Field	Meaning
keywords	Search phrases of the niche, one per line. Prefilled with order-flow trading phrases. Optional when channels are given below.
sources	Any of youtube, telegram, web. All three by default.
maxResultsPerKeyword	Candidates taken from each search before qualification (default 20).
requireEmail	Save only prospects with a public email. Off by default.
youtubeChannels	YouTube channels to look up directly for the owner's public email.
audienceOfChannels	YouTube channels whose commenters are read as their engaged audience.
maxAudienceVideos, maxAudienceProfiles	Recent videos read per channel (default 5) and distinct commenters opened per channel (default 200).
audienceRequireEmail	Save only the audience members with a public email (default on).
telegramChannels	Public channel usernames or t.me links to read whatever the search returns.
language, country	Two-letter codes used for the searches (en, US).
minRelevanceScore	Threshold to be saved. Default 50.
minSubscribers, maxSubscribers, activeWithinDays	Audience and activity window. 0 disables each one.
nicheTerms, negativeTerms	Your own niche vocabulary and off-topic words. Optional: the dictionary is derived from the keywords when left empty.
maxVideoDescriptionsPerChannel	Recent video descriptions to read when the channel description has no address (default 3).
visitWebsites, maxPagesPerSite	Whether to open the creator's own site for a contact page, and how deep.
youtubeApiKey	Optional. Only needed if YouTube stops answering the public web search from your IP; the official Data API v3 is used instead and the quota is charged to that key.
maxConcurrency	Prospects qualified in parallel (default 5).
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy. Keep it on.

Output

One dataset row per prospect, deduplicated and sorted by score. The same channel found through several keywords is one row; a creator found on both YouTube and Telegram is one row too, when one of the two profiles links to the other (alsoOn then says where else it was seen).

{
  "platform": "youtube",
  "name": "Orderflow Stream",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@orderflowstream",
  "handle": "@orderflowstream",
  "subscribers": 14500,
  "lastPublishedAt": "2026-10-03T00:00:00.000Z",
  "language": null,
  "country": null,
  "relevanceScore": 78,
  "relevanceReasons": ["niche words in the name: order flow", "4 niche words in the description", "14,500 subscribers", "published in the last 7 days"],
  "matchedKeywords": ["order flow", "footprint", "volume profile", "DOM"],
  "topicsFound": ["order flow", "footprint", "volume profile", "DOM"],
  "email": "contact@example-trader.com",
  "emailSource": "website https://example-trader.com/contact/",
  "emailType": "business",
  "otherEmails": [],
  "website": "https://example-trader.com",
  "telegram": "https://t.me/examplechannel",
  "telegramContacts": [],
  "socialLinks": { "telegram": ["https://t.me/examplechannel"], "instagram": ["https://instagram.com/example"] },
  "sampleTitles": ["Reading absorption on the footprint", "DOM basics", "Tape reading a reversal"],
  "foundVia": ["youtube channel search: order flow trading", "youtube video search: footprint chart"],
  "alsoOn": [],
  "description": "…",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-10T08:00:00.000Z"
}

RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store holds the counts per keyword and per source (candidates found, rejected below the threshold, with an email, errors), a sample of the rejected prospects with the reason, and any source that stopped answering during the run.

Tips for a better list

• Give three to seven keywords, phrased the way the audience searches. One keyword gives a thin dictionary and a strict score.
• Start with minRelevanceScore: 50. Look at rejectedSample in RUN_SUMMARY: if good channels are in it, lower the threshold or add their vocabulary to nicheTerms.
• Use maxSubscribers to stay under the size where channels only answer through an agency, and activeWithinDays: 90 to drop abandoned channels.
• Check emailSource before writing. When the domain of an address does not look like the channel's name, it may be the address of a vendor the channel links to rather than the creator's own.

FAQ

Does it use the YouTube API or need a key? No. It reads what YouTube shows to an anonymous visitor. An optional youtubeApiKey exists only as a fallback if YouTube stops answering the web search from your IP.

How many creators have a public email? In our runs on a trading niche, about half of the qualified YouTube channels and half of the websites. Channels that keep their address only behind YouTube's "View email address" button come out with their website and social links instead.

Can I get the subscribers of a channel? Nobody can: YouTube shows that list to the channel owner only. The audience mode reads the commenters of the latest videos, and about 2% of them publish an email on their own profile.

Can I use it for a niche other than trading? Yes. The examples in the input are about trading; replace them and the scoring follows your keywords.

Export formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML from the dataset, or through the Apify API and integrations (n8n, Make, Zapier).

Honest limits

• No network that requires a login. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X and LinkedIn are not supported, by design. No login, no captcha solving, no cookie borrowed from a browser session.
• The YouTube "View email address" button is not used. That button asks for a login and a captcha. Only text YouTube already shows to anonymous visitors is read: the channel description, the channel's links, the descriptions of recent videos, and the linked website. A creator who keeps its address only behind that button comes out with email: null and its website and social links instead.
• Subscriber lists do not exist publicly. Neither YouTube nor Telegram shows who subscribes to a channel. The audience mode reads commenters, which is a smaller and more engaged group than subscribers, and only those who comment under the latest videos.
• Audience members are mostly private individuals. Their addresses are personal data even though they published them. Many of them never asked to be contacted about anything: read the compliance note before writing to them.
• Public addresses only. Nothing is guessed, permutated or verified against a mail server. firstname.lastname@ is never invented: if no address was published, the row says so.
• Audience numbers are what the platform displays — rounded ("27K"), and lastPublishedAt is derived from relative dates ("3 weeks ago"), so it is accurate to the day at best.
• Telegram can only be read when the channel has a public preview. Private channels, groups and invite links are reported and skipped.
• Web search has no API key, so result counts are modest and vary between runs. A search engine that rate-limits is reported in RUN_SUMMARY; the other sources keep running.
• Merged rows mix their sources. When a website and a YouTube channel turn out to be the same business, the row keeps one platform and fills its empty fields from the other, so subscribers may describe the profile named in alsoOn.
• Scoring is a filter, not a judgement. Read relevanceReasons before writing to anybody.

Compliance

This Actor collects only contact details that the creator published itself for professional contact — a business email in a channel description, a contact page on its own website. It does not break logins, does not solve captchas and does not scrape private profiles.

If you contact people in the EU or the UK, the GDPR applies to you as the sender: write only about a genuine business proposal relevant to their activity, identify yourself, say where you found their address, honour an opt-out immediately, and keep the data no longer than the outreach needs. Addresses collected here are for your own outreach: do not resell them and do not build a public list out of them. Some of these addresses are personal data even when they are publicly visible.

The audience mode deserves more care than the creator modes. A creator who writes "business inquiries:" invites professional contact; a viewer who left an address on a personal profile did not. In the EU, the UK and several other jurisdictions, unsolicited marketing email to individuals needs their prior consent, and "the address was public" is not a legal basis. Use that mode to understand who the audience is, and get advice before running a campaign on it.

This Actor sends nothing and contacts nobody. It only tells you who is worth writing to, and where to write.