YouTube Creator Finder — Influencer Discovery

Find YouTube creators for brand partnerships, influencer research and niche discovery. Search by topic, narrow the subscriber range, and compare channel profiles, recent uploads and approximate activity.

No YouTube API key or sign-in is required.

What you get

One row per unique creator in each run:

• Channel name, handle, channel ID and source link.
• Subscriber count, total channel views and published video count when available.
• Creator description, keywords and publicly listed external links.
• Declared creator country, detected content language and language confidence.
• Recent upload titles and approximate time since last upload.
• Topic relevance score and the terms supporting the match.
• The search topic and observation time.

Use the results to build creator shortlists for outreach, compare creators in a niche, or refresh a research table. Export JSON, CSV or Excel from Apify, or use the dataset API with your existing workflow.

Quick start

1. Enter one or more specific topics.
2. Choose a subscriber range or leave it unrestricted.
3. Set the maximum number of creators.
4. Run the Actor and review the Creator profiles output.

{
  "searchQueries": ["hiking camping"],
  "maxCreators": 10,
  "maxCandidatesPerQuery": 30,
  "maxInactiveDays": 90,
  "activityMatch": "strict",
  "maxDetailRequests": 120,
  "maxRunSeconds": 180
}

Search filters

Setting	How it works
Topics	Up to 10 phrases. Specific topics usually give more useful results than a broad word.
Subscriber range	Set a minimum, maximum, or both. Counts can be rounded by YouTube. An unavailable count is not proof that a channel falls within your range.
Declared creator country	Uses the country published on the channel profile. Accepts a country name or code, such as Brazil or BR.
Country match	Strict excludes unknown countries; lenient keeps them and excludes confirmed mismatches.
Content language	A text-based estimate with confidence. Known mismatches are excluded; unknown languages remain.
Approximate time since last upload	Set a maximum age in days. Zero disables this filter.
Activity match	Strict excludes unknown activity when a maximum age is set; lenient keeps it.
Topic relevance	A 0–100 text-based relevance score. Set zero to disable the threshold.
Search localization	Localizes the search results. It does not identify the audience's location.

For example, to look for smaller active creators with a declared country of Brazil:

{
  "searchQueries": ["trilhas acampamento", "camping brasil"],
  "region": "BR",
  "creatorCountry": "BR",
  "countryMatch": "strict",
  "language": "pt",
  "minSubscribers": 1000,
  "maxSubscribers": 50000,
  "maxInactiveDays": 90,
  "activityMatch": "strict",
  "maxCreators": 25,
  "maxCandidatesPerQuery": 50,
  "maxDetailRequests": 250,
  "maxRunSeconds": 240
}

Pricing

$0.02 per run + $0.01 per creator returned ($10 per 1,000 creator rows). Platform usage during the run is included. Standard Apify charges can apply when you access or store data after the run.

Creators actually returned	Actor charge
5	$0.07
10	$0.12
25	$0.27
50	$0.52
100	$1.02

The start fee also applies when no creator matches. Only returned creator rows are charged as results; filtered candidates and recent videos are not charged separately. Repeating a run produces new billable observations. The current price displayed in the Pricing tab takes precedence.

Ready-to-run examples

• Outdoor creator shortlist — up to 5 creators.
• Beauty and skincare creator research — up to 10 creators.
• Fitness and wellness influencer discovery — up to 25 creators.
• Technology and AI creator research — up to 50 creators.
• Food and cooking creator discovery — up to 100 creators.

These are output limits, not guaranteed list sizes. The examples use different topics and collection budgets so you can start small and expand.

Getting more results

Increase the creator limit together with candidates per topic, detail requests and the collection time budget. Add related topic phrases to expand discovery. A restrictive subscriber, country or activity combination may return fewer creators or none.

A run returns at most 200 creators. Search is a bounded sample, not an exhaustive YouTube index. Multiple topics share one output limit, so an early query can fill the list. Use separate Tasks when each topic needs its own quota.

Data quality and limitations

• Approximate time since last upload: YouTube relative labels are converted to estimated days. “17 hours ago” becomes 0 days; “1 month ago” becomes roughly 30 days. LastUploadAt preserves a relative label, not an exact timestamp. Results near a cutoff can be imprecise.
• Recent activity is based on the channel uploads collected by this Actor. It is not a complete audit of every Shorts, live or community publication.
• Creator country is self-declared. Audience geography is not available.
• Language and relevance are text-based estimates. Translated titles can reduce confidence.
• Public counters and profile details may be missing or rounded. Null means unavailable.
• Public external links are returned when exposed. The Actor does not unlock gated contact emails or private analytics.
• YouTube availability, filters and request budgets can reduce coverage. The run summary distinguishes partial collection from a complete bounded sample.

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