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. Exact subscribers, country, engagement rate, posting cadence, social links 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

Real example (one creator, trimmed):

{
  "channel_id": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
  "channel_url": "http://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
  "title": "Marques Brownlee",
  "subscriber_count": 21300000,
  "subscriber_band": "mega",
  "median_recent_views": 6384551,
  "engagement_rate": 0.0177,
  "posting_cadence_days": 3.3,
  "country": "United States",
  "total_views": 5710211857,
  "video_count": 1854,
  "joined_at": "2008-03-21",
  "topics": ["MKBHD", "MarquesBrownlee", "Marques", "Brownlee"],
  "social_links": ["https://twitter.com/MKBHD", "https://instagram.com/MKBHD", "https://youtube.com/c/TheStudio", "https://reddit.com/r/MKBHD", "https://discord.gg/MKBHD"],
  "website_links": [],
  "business_contact": {
    "email": "business@mkbhd.com",
    "verification_level": "mx_valid",
    "source": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"
  },
  "qualification_score": 100,
  "score_reasons": ["median recent views 6,384,551 (30 pts)", "engagement rate 1.77% (20 pts)", "posting cadence 3d (20 pts)", "active within window (15 pts)", "public business contact found (15 pts)"],
  "status": "ok"
}

Every number comes from YouTube's own public channel page and latest uploads (exact views and likes), read directly — no third-party scraper in the middle.

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 and x402)

Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client to Apify's MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com and add this Actor, om_kh/youtube-creator-lead-finder, as a tool — the agent passes the same JSON as the run input and gets the dataset back.

AI agents that pay with x402 can run it too, without an Apify account: the Actor charges only per result delivered, so an agent pays exactly for what it gets.

Related Actors

• TikTok Creator Search Scraper — same creator-qualification approach, TikTok instead of YouTube
• Instagram Lookalike Scraper - Similar Accounts, Followers, Bio — cross-platform creator research on Instagram

How to use it in 3 steps

1. Click Try for free and fill in Niche keywords (keywords).
2. Optional: adjust the other fields; every one has a description and a sensible default.
3. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them from the API.

Use cases

• Influencer marketing
• Creator outreach lists

Use it from code (API)

Every Apify Actor is an API. Start a run and read the results with one call.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("om_kh/youtube-creator-lead-finder").call(run_input={"keywords": ["productivity apps"], "channelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"], "minMedianRecentViews": 0, "activeWithinDays": 90, "requireContact": False, "maxResults": 100})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('om_kh/youtube-creator-lead-finder').call({
    "keywords": [
        "productivity apps"
    ],
    "channelUrls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"
    ],
    "minMedianRecentViews": 0,
    "activeWithinDays": 90,
    "requireContact": false,
    "maxResults": 100
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

One HTTP call (cURL) — runs the Actor and returns the dataset in the same response:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/om_kh~youtube-creator-lead-finder/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords": ["productivity apps"], "channelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"], "minMedianRecentViews": 0, "activeWithinDays": 90, "requireContact": false, "maxResults": 100}'

Integrations: n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets

• n8n — the official Apify node, operation Run Actor and get dataset, Actor om_kh/youtube-creator-lead-finder.
• Make — Apify › Run an Actor, then Apify › Get Dataset Items.
• Zapier — Apify › Run Actor; map the dataset items into your next step.
• Google Sheets, webhooks, Slack — add an integration from the Integrations tab of this Actor.
• Schedules — run it every hour or day from Schedules in Apify Console.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape YouTube Creator Lead? This Actor collects only publicly available YouTube Creator Lead data and never logs in. You are responsible for how you use it; check YouTube Creator Lead's terms and your local law (GDPR, CCPA) if you store personal data, and ask a lawyer if unsure.

Do I need an account, cookies or an API key? No. You only need an Apify account to run it.

What data do I get? Creators with subscribers, views, niche and contact signals. Download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML, or read it from the API.

Am I charged when something fails? No. An input that fails is listed with its reason in the run summary and is never charged.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Create a schedule in Apify Console (hourly, daily, weekly) and connect webhooks, Google Sheets, Slack, n8n, Make or Zapier.

Can I use it from Python, JavaScript or an AI agent? Yes: see the code samples above, or connect AI agents through MCP with the youtube_creator_lead_finder tool.

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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.