YouTube Email Scraper - Creator & Channel Contact Finder

YouTube email scraper and creator contact finder: discover YouTube channels by niche, enrich each with no-login data (subscribers, country, total views, social links), and recover a contact email from the creator's linked website / Linktree.

Built for lead generation, influencer-marketing outreach, sponsorship prospecting and B2B-to-creator sales. Keywords: youtube email scraper, youtube channel email extractor, creator contact finder, influencer email finder, youtube lead generation, bulk youtube channel scraper.

This is the Path A (no-account) build. See Roadmap for the premium Path B.

Why this works without a logged-in account

The channel /about page is server-rendered with an embedded ytInitialData JSON blob. It already contains the header stats and the creator's external links (channelExternalLinkViewModel). Only YouTube's native business-email reveal is gated behind signInForBusinessEmail (a Google account + CAPTCHA) — that is Path B, out of scope here. Path A recovers emails by following the linked sites instead.

Validated live from a US residential IP: discovery, enrichment and link extraction are 100% reliable; linked-site email recovery lands a real creator email for ~20–35% of channels (the rest expose only social links or a contact form).

Input

field	meaning
searchQueries	niches/keywords to discover creators by
channelUrls	known @handle / /channel/ID list to enrich directly
maxChannelsPerQuery	cap per keyword (default 10)
minSubscribers	drop channels below this size (lead quality filter)
country	keep only channels whose About-page country matches
scrapeEmails	follow linked sites to recover an email (default true)
concurrency	parallel channels (default 5)
proxyConfiguration	residential proxy; match group country to country

Output (one item per channel)

{
  "channelName": "Nischa", "handle": "@nischa",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@nischa", "channelId": "UC...",
  "subscribers": 2210000, "subscribersText": "2.21M subscribers",
  "totalViews": "136,276,016 views", "videosText": "300 videos",
  "country": "United Kingdom",
  "emails": ["team@nischa.me"],
  "links": ["https://nischa.me/links", "..."],
  "description": "...", "sourceQuery": "personal finance youtuber"
}

Pricing (PAY_PER_EVENT)

Register these in the Apify console at publish time (names must match Actor.charge):

event	suggested price	when
channel-enriched	$0.01	every channel returned
email-found	$0.04	only when an email is recovered

Mid-market vs the niche: cheap bulk scrapers charge ~$0.03/result, the premium account-based reveal (dataovercoffee) charges $0.12. Path A sits in between on value: always-on enrichment + best-effort email.

Run locally

mkdir -p storage/key_value_stores/default
cp .actor/input.example.json storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json   # or write your own
APIFY_LOCAL_STORAGE_DIR="$PWD/storage" \
  uv run --with apify --with "httpx[http2]" python -m src.main

Locally pass "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": false} to go direct (e.g. from a residential machine). On the platform, keep the RESIDENTIAL default.

Deploy

npm i -g apify-cli
apify login
apify push

Roadmap — Path B (premium tier)

Add a revealNativeEmail flag that performs YouTube's native business-email reveal: requires a pool of logged-in Google accounts + a CAPTCHA solver (2captcha/CapSolver) + residential IP. This is the 60–80%-hit-rate tier that commands ~$0.10–0.12/email. The event (native-email-revealed) and account-pool plumbing are not in this build.

Then reuse the discover→enrich→email engine for Instagram and TikTok creators to build a multi-platform creator-contact actor family.