📧 YouTube Creator Contact Finder — MX-Verified Business Emails for Creator Outreach

Build YouTube creator-outreach lists in minutes. Give this actor a list of channel handles, URLs, or IDs and it returns one clean record per channel — channel name, subscriber count, total views, video count, country — plus the creator's published business contact email, pulled from both the channel description and the creator's listed website, and MX-verified before it lands in your dataset. No login, no YouTube Data API key, no manual channel-by-channel copy-paste. Optional one-run delivery straight to your Notion CRM.

It uses only public channel data and the contact details creators publish themselves. It deliberately does not touch YouTube's captcha-gated "View email address" button — no bot-gate bypass, no ToS gray area.

📊 Sample Output

Real channels returned by this actor — every email below was MX-verified in the same run:

Channel	Subscribers	Country	Verified Business Email	Source
Marques Brownlee	21.0M	United States	business@mkbhd.com	description
Linus Tech Tips	16.8M	Canada	partnerships@linusmediagroup.com	description
Veritasium	20.8M	United States	info@snatoms.com	channel link
Binging with Babish	10.5M	United States	bingingwithbabish@gmail.com	channel link
Peter McKinnon	6.01M	Canada	sales@petermckinnon.com	channel link
The Verge	3.51M	United States	sales@voxmedia.com	channel link

Four of the six emails above were only reachable by resolving the creator's listed website — a description-only regex scraper would have missed them. The actor reads the inline-description email and follows the channel's listed links to find the address the creator actually publishes for business.

⚖️ vs the alternatives

	NexGenData YouTube Creator Contact Finder	apizy (channel stats scraper)	jurassic_jove
Email source	Description + creator-listed website	Stats + basic contact	Description + website visit
Email validation	MX-verified (real mail server, not just regex)	Regex match	Regex match
Channel metrics	Subs, views, videos, country	Subs, views	Limited
One-run CRM delivery	Built-in Notion connector	No	No
Login / API key	None	None	None
Pricing model	Flat per-channel, emails included	~$0.005 / channel	$0.04 per email found (pay-on-hit)
Output	Flat typed fields, ready for outreach	Channel stats	Profile + email

Most teams pick this actor not because it's the cheapest per-channel line item, but because the emails are MX-verified (your outreach list isn't full of dead addresses), it resolves the creator's listed website (where a lot of creators actually park their business email), and it can drop the whole enriched list straight into your Notion CRM in one run. Pay-on-hit email tools can run up the bill on viral niches; here it's a flat per-channel rate with emails included, so your cost is predictable whether a channel has one email or none. It's a quality + workflow bundle, not a race to the bottom.

What you get

Per channel, a flat, typed record:

• Identity — channel_name, handle, channel_id, channel_url
• Audience — subscriber_count, view_count, video_count
• Classification — country, description
• Links — links[] (every link the creator lists, with title + URL)
• Contact — emails[] (all addresses found), primary_email, email_source (description / channel_link / none), email_verified (MX check)
• Status — status (ok / no_email / not_found / error)

Records produced by keyword discovery carry the exact same schema as records from an explicit channel list — discovery only changes how the channel list is built, not what you get back.

Two ways to use it

You can either hand it a channel list (handles / URLs / IDs) or let it discover creators by niche — or both at once. Discovery is the list-builder: give it a topic and it searches YouTube for matching channels, then runs them through the same email-enrichment pipeline. Every discovered channel is deduped, and maxCreators is a hard cap so a broad search can never blow up your cost.

Input fields

Field	Type	What it does
channels	array	Explicit channels to enrich — @handles, channel URLs, or UC... IDs. Optional.
searchKeywords	array	Discovery mode. Niche/topic phrases to search YouTube for (e.g. "home barista"). The actor collects matching channels and enriches them. Optional.
maxCreators	int	Hard cap on how many channels discovery collects + scans in total (1–500). Keeps discovery cost predictable.
maxChannels	int	Hard cap for the explicit-list path when you are not using discovery (1–500).
followChannelLinks	bool	Resolve creator-listed websites for emails (the main yield path). Default on.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy (datacenter default, residential auto-fallback).
notionConnector / notionParentId	string	Optional one-run delivery to your Notion workspace.

Provide channels, searchKeywords, or both — at least one is required.

Sample inputs

1. Discover creators by niche (list-builder)

{ "searchKeywords": ["home barista", "specialty coffee roaster"], "maxCreators": 8 }

The actor searches YouTube for channels in each niche, collects up to 8 unique creators, and finds their business emails.

2. Enrich a hand-picked channel list (handles)

{ "channels": ["mkbhd", "LinusTechTips", "veritasium"], "maxChannels": 50 }

3. Combine discovery with explicit handles (deduped)

{ "searchKeywords": ["indie game dev"], "channels": ["mkbhd"], "maxCreators": 25 }

4. Mix of full channel URLs and channel IDs

{ "channels": ["https://www.youtube.com/@PeterMcKinnon", "UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw"], "maxChannels": 25 }

5. Discover and deliver straight to your Notion CRM

{ "searchKeywords": ["vegan meal prep"], "maxCreators": 50, "notionConnector": "your-notion-mcp-connector" }

📄 Sample record (JSON)

One representative record straight from a live run:

{
  "channel_name": "Marques Brownlee",
  "handle": "@mkbhd",
  "channel_id": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
  "subscriber_count": 21000000,
  "video_count": 1828,
  "view_count": 5445338889,
  "country": "United States",
  "description": "Quality Tech Videos | YouTuber | Geek | Consumer Electronics | Tech Head | Internet Personality!",
  "links": [
    { "title": "Twitter", "url": "twitter.com/MKBHD" },
    { "title": "Instagram", "url": "instagram.com/MKBHD" },
    { "title": "The Studio", "url": "youtube.com/c/TheStudio" }
  ],
  "emails": ["business@mkbhd.com"],
  "primary_email": "business@mkbhd.com",
  "email_source": "description",
  "email_verified": true,
  "status": "ok",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ"
}

⚙️ How it works

1. ytInitialData parse — each channel's public About/home page is fetched and the actor reads the channel fields straight from the page's embedded ytInitialData JSON — subscriber count, view count, video count, country, description, and every link the creator lists. No brittle DOM scraping, low compute.
2. Description email regex + deobfuscation — it scans the channel description for email addresses, including common obfuscations creators use to dodge bots (name [at] domain [dot] com, spaced/character-swapped variants), and normalizes them back to real addresses.
3. Creator-listed website resolution — when there's no inline-description email but the channel lists a website, the actor resolves that page and extracts emails from it. This is where a lot of creators actually publish their business contact, so it materially raises yield.
4. MX verification — every candidate email is checked against the domain's real mail servers (MX records) before it's marked email_verified: true, so your outreach list isn't full of typo'd or dead addresses. It does not send a test email.

Public data only. This actor reads the same public channel page anyone can open in a browser, plus the contact email the creator chose to publish. It does not click YouTube's captcha-gated "View email address" button and does not attempt any bot-gate or login bypass.

📈 Yield — set the right expectation

Not every creator publishes a reachable business email — that's a property of YouTube, not the scraper. In practice roughly 40–67% of scanned channels have a reachable, MX-verified business email (description or listed website), depending on the niche — tech, business, and media channels tend to publish one; gaming and personal vlogs less often. The rest come back with status: no_email. You pay the flat per-channel rate for every channel scanned, and the emails are included at no extra charge — you're never billed extra for a hit. Channels with no published email still return full audience + metrics + links data, which is useful on its own.

💰 Pricing example

• Actor start: $0.02
• Per channel scanned: $0.03 (flat — emails included, no per-email surcharge)

A 100-channel run = $0.02 + (100 × $0.03) = $3.02. A quick 25-channel test = $0.77. No monthly minimum, no seats, no per-email upcharge. You pay for channels scanned, whether or not each one publishes an email.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads only public YouTube channel data and the business contact emails creators themselves publish in their channel description or on the website they list — exactly so brands and agencies can reach them. It does not access private account data, comments behind authentication, or anything behind a login, and it does not attempt to bypass YouTube's captcha-gated business-email gate. The intended use case is B2B creator / influencer outreach — reaching creators who have invited business contact. You are responsible for using the output in line with YouTube's terms, anti-spam laws (e.g. CAN-SPAM, GDPR), and your local regulations.

🔗 Related Actors

Pair this with the rest of the NexGenData lead-gen & outreach stack:

• 📧 TikTok Creator Email Finder — MX-Verified Influencer Emails — same playbook for TikTok: bio + link-in-bio, MX-verified
• 📍 Google Maps Extractor — Local Business Data — pull business locations, ratings, and contact data at scale
• 🎯 B2B Leads Finder — Apollo / ZoomInfo Alternative — build targeted prospect lists by industry, geo, and tech stack
• ✉️ Website Email Extractor — Crawl & Find Emails — extract verified emails from any list of websites
• 🗂️ Leads to Notion CRM — Auto-Sync Pipeline — push scraped records straight into a Notion CRM
• 🏢 About NexGenData — we maintain 260+ production Apify actors for lead-gen, competitive intelligence, and web data. Browse the full catalog at apify.com/nexgendata.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need a YouTube login or API key? A: No. The actor works entirely off public channel pages — no login, no Google Cloud project, no YouTube Data API quota.

Q: Where do the emails come from? A: Two places: the creator's channel description (inline text, including obfuscated forms like name [at] domain) and the website the creator lists on their channel. email_source tells you which one each email came from (description or channel_link).

Q: Does this scrape YouTube's "View email address" business email? A: No. That field sits behind a captcha gate, and this actor does not click it or attempt any bot-gate bypass. It only reads the email a creator publishes in their public description or listed website — which is often the same business address, just published openly.

Q: What does "MX-verified" actually mean? A: Before an email is marked email_verified: true, the actor checks that the domain has live mail-exchange (MX) records — i.e. a real mail server that can receive mail. This filters out typos and dead domains so your outreach bounces less. It does not send a test email.

Q: Why did some channels come back with no email? A: They simply didn't publish a reachable business email in their description or listed website (status: no_email). Roughly 40–67% of channels publish one depending on niche; the rest don't. You still get their full audience, metrics, and links data.

Q: Can I feed a keyword or topic instead of channels? A: Not yet — today you supply channel handles, URLs, or IDs and the actor does the enrichment. Keyword/topic creator discovery is coming in v2.

Q: Can results go straight into Notion? A: Yes — authorize a Notion MCP connector in Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations, select it in notionConnector, and the channels + emails are written into your Notion workspace in the same run. The actor never sees your Notion credentials.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• status: no_email — that channel didn't publish a reachable business email in its description or listed website. Expected for a chunk of any list; not an error.
• Fewer emails than channels — normal. Only ~40–67% of channels publish a business email depending on niche; you pay per channel scanned regardless.
• A handle returned empty / placeholder data — the channel may have been renamed, terminated, or is a near-empty account. Double-check the exact handle, URL, or channel ID on youtube.com.
• No email but the channel lists a website — the listed site may not publish an email on its landing page, or the email is on a contact page the resolver didn't reach. The channel still returns full metrics + links.
• Email looks unverified (email_verified: false) — the address was found but its domain has no live MX record; treat it as low-confidence.
• Expecting the YouTube business email — this actor doesn't read the captcha-gated business-email field by design. Use the description/website email it returns instead.

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