YouTube Creator Lead Finder — Qualified Creators, Not Just Emails

You paste a niche or a channel list. You get creators worth contacting — not every channel that happens to exist. Subscriber band, median recent views, posting cadence, and a public business contact with its own source URL, every field.

Why not just scrape emails

Plenty of scrapers return an email for every channel that has one. Most of those channels are dormant, tiny, or off-topic. This Actor scores each one first — recent activity, engagement relative to subscriber count, posting cadence — and only delivers a contact once the channel clears your bar.

5 advantages

1. One bad channel never kills your batch. A private or deleted channel returns an error for that item only; every other channel still delivers.
2. Never billed on a failed lookup. Only qualified creators actually delivered are charged — a channel we could not verify costs you nothing.
3. Score with reasons, not a black box. Every qualification_score ships with score_reasons[] — the exact factors and their weight.
4. Contact verification level, always disclosed. published (found on the page) or mx_valid (domain's mail server confirmed). Never guessed.
5. Hard cost cap you control. Set maxTotalChargeUsd and the run can never bill above it.

Output

{
  "channel_id": "UC1234",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@example",
  "title": "Example Channel",
  "subscriber_band": "micro",
  "median_recent_views": 8400,
  "posting_cadence_days": 5.5,
  "language": "en",
  "business_contact": {
    "email": "hello@example.com",
    "verification_level": "mx_valid",
    "source": "https://example.com"
  },
  "qualification_score": 78,
  "score_reasons": ["median recent views 8,400 (22 pts)", "..."],
  "status": "ok"
}

Pricing

Pay per event, base FREE-tier prices: $0.004 per qualified creator delivered, $0.002 per verified business contact. Paid Store plans pay less on every event — the largest plans reach $0.0011 on the cheapest event; the Pricing tab on this Actor's Store page is always the authority. No event is ever charged on an item that returns an error — a batch of 200 with one bad input bills 199.

Use it from an AI agent (MCP)

https://om-kh--youtube-creator-lead-finder.apify.actor/mcp

One tool, youtube_creator_lead_finder, same arguments as the Start form.

Related Actors

• TikTok Creator Search Scraper — same creator-qualification approach, TikTok instead of YouTube
• Instagram Profile & Lookalike Scraper — cross-platform creator research on Instagram

Support

Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab on this Actor's Apify Store page, or message the author (om_kh) directly.