YouTube Channel Search — Find Creators, Stats & Emails by Keyword

Type a topic, get a deduplicated list of YouTube channels with subscriber counts, video counts, total views, business emails, and social links. No channel URLs required, no YouTube API key needed, and no daily quota headaches.

Pricing at a glance (Tiered Pay-Per-Result)

Channels found	Free Tier ($1.00/1k)	Bronze ($0.90/1k)	Silver ($0.80/1k)	Gold+ ($0.70/1k)
100 channels	$0.10	$0.09	$0.08	$0.07
1,000 channels	$1.00	$0.90	$0.80	$0.70
10,000 channels	$10.00	$9.00	$8.00	$7.00

• Platform compute usage is included — you only pay per unique channel saved.
• Cross-keyword deduplication: a channel discovered under both "home workout" and "fitness" is saved once and charged once.
• Apify Free Plan's $5 monthly credit covers ~5,000 channels.
• Set Maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly as soon as it reaches your limit.

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Try it in 3 steps

1. Enter one or more keywords or hashtags (e.g. AI tools, home workout, #mealprep).
2. Keep useYoutubeApi on to get subscriber counts, total views, description, and extracted business emails/social links.
3. Click Start. Each keyword returns ~30–100 unique channels in under a minute.

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What a row looks like

{
  "recordType": "channel",
  "channelId": "UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ",
  "channelHandle": "mkbhd",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
  "title": "Marques Brownlee",
  "description": "Quality Tech Videos | Business inquiries: business@mkbhd.com | https://instagram.com/mkbhd",
  "emails": ["business@mkbhd.com"],
  "socialLinks": ["https://instagram.com/mkbhd"],
  "country": "US",
  "publishedAt": "2008-03-21T00:00:00Z",
  "subscriberCount": 20100000,
  "videoCount": 1784,
  "viewCount": 4692518841,
  "thumbnails": { "high": { "url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/...", "width": 800 } },
  "source": "video",
  "_searchQuery": "smartphone review",
  "_enriched": true
}

• emails & socialLinks: automatically extracted from the channel description when present — ready for cold outreach and influencer CRM imports.
• source: tells you whether the channel was found via direct search or behind a matching video.
• _searchQuery: preserves the keyword that discovered the channel so multi-keyword runs stay sortable.

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Input

Field	Meaning
searchQueries	Keywords or hashtags, one per line. Up to 100 per run
contentType	Search channel results directly, or mine video results for active creators behind them
uploadDate	any, hour, today, week, month, year — combine with contentType: "video" to find creators posting right now
sortBy	relevance, upload_date, view_count, rating
maxResultsPerQuery	Up to 1,000 channels per keyword
useYoutubeApi	Enrich every channel with subscribers, videos, total views, description, emails & social links (no API key needed)

{
  "searchQueries": ["AI tools", "home workout", "#mealprep"],
  "contentType": "channel",
  "uploadDate": "any",
  "sortBy": "relevance",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
  "useYoutubeApi": true
}

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Next Step: Deep-Scrape Your Discovered Channels

Once you have your shortlist of channels, copy the channelUrl column and feed it straight into:

• YouTube Channel Scraper Pro — extracts the full video catalogue, Shorts, exact views/likes, and audience comments for each channel.
• YouTube Search & Transcript Scraper — search keywords for individual viral videos with exact views, publish dates, and full transcripts/subtitles.