YouTube Creator Finder

Tell it a niche. Get back the creators, filtered the way you actually build an outreach list — with their contact email where they publish one.

Most YouTube contact tools need you to already have a list of channels. This one finds them. You give it "sourdough baking" and a subscriber range, and it returns creators in that band with their size, country, links, and a validated contact address where one is publicly available.

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What you get, per creator

Who	Channel name, handle, URL, channel ID, country
How big	Subscribers, videos, total views, views per video
How established	Year they joined
Where else	Their website, and every social link
Contact	Public business email, the exact URL it was found at, plus any extras
Whether to use it	A plain-English send recommendation for that address
Why they're in your list	The keyword that found them

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Be clear about the email before you run this

YouTube hides most creators' business emails behind a "View email address" button that requires a Google login and a CAPTCHA. This Actor does not bypass that, and it never will — that route needs pools of logged-in accounts and a CAPTCHA-solving service, and it gets people banned.

So here is the honest number, measured on real mid-sized channels:

• Roughly 1 in 7 mid-sized creators (5k–500k subscribers) publish an address we can read — in their description, or on their own website's contact page.
• Around half of them have an address behind YouTube's login. We can't read it, but we tell you it exists, so you know which creators are worth chasing another way.
• Every creator returns a full profile, contact or not.

Large channels publish addresses far more often than small ones. If you need a guaranteed address for a specific channel, use a tool that logs in — and expect to pay roughly thirty times more per email.

This Actor is built for the other job: building a shortlist of the right creators, fast and cheap, and taking the contacts that come free with it.

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Every email arrives already checked

Other tools hand you a string and wish you luck. Each address here is run through a verification engine — syntax, live domain, working mail route, disposable detection, role-inbox detection, free-provider detection — and comes back with a recommendation:

Recommendation	Meaning
send	A business inbox the creator published for enquiries, on a working mail host. This is the one you want.
send_low_volume	Real and reachable, but a customer-service inbox or a thinner signal. Usable; start small.
manual_review	Worth a human glance before sending.
suppress	Don't send. Dead domain, disposable, or an unattended noreply@.

Branch on the recommendation, not on the score. Without SMTP probing the confidence ceiling caps safe_to_send_score around 45 even for good addresses — that is the engine refusing to claim certainty it doesn't have, not a low grade.

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Input

{
  "searchKeywords": ["sourdough baking", "home workout fitness"],
  "minSubscribers": 5000,
  "maxSubscribers": 500000,
  "maxCreators": 25
}

Already have channels? Pass them directly and skip the search:

{ "channelUrls": ["@NetworkChuck", "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd", "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ"] }

Handles, full URLs and UC... IDs all work, and you can mix them.

maxCreators is your cost ceiling. Channels are filtered by size before that limit applies, so your budget is spent on creators that match rather than on the giants the search happened to rank first.

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Why the subscriber filter matters

It's the filter every outreach playbook is built on and most tools don't offer. Mega-channels route cold approaches through an agency; very small channels don't move product. The creators worth pitching sit in a band — and this Actor lets you name it.

It's also why the run is cheap: filtering happens on search results, and only creators who survive the filter get fully fetched.

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Output

One row per creator, every column a plain value, identical shape whether the lookup succeeded or failed — so a spreadsheet formula written on row 2 still works on row 200. Use the Creators view for the full picture or Contacts only for the shortlist with an address.

A final SUMMARY row reports what happened: how many channels were discovered, how many made the shortlist, how many produced a contact, and how many have one behind YouTube's login.

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What it does not do

• No login-gated emails. Stated above, repeated here.
• No sponsor addresses. Creator link lists are full of sponsors and affiliate codes. Only sites that appear to belong to the creator are followed, so you don't get a mattress company's address labelled as a fitness creator's. That costs a little reach and is worth it.
• No guessed addresses. Nothing is constructed from a name and a domain. Everything returned was found somewhere, and the row tells you where.
• No mailbox confirmation. Nothing here proves a mailbox exists — that needs SMTP. We check everything short of it and say so plainly.