YouTube Creator Email & Sponsor Finder

Public creator contacts are all over YouTube — in the About tab, pinned comments, video descriptions, and link-in-bio pages — just never in one place. This Actor gathers them for you and hands back outreach-ready rows: business emails, phones, socials, audience metrics, and sponsor history. No login, no browser.

It works three ways — enrich channels you already have (channelContacts), discover new creators from a niche (keywordDiscovery), or expand from a few favourites into lookalikes (lookalikeDiscovery) — and every path returns the same rich creator row. The rest of this page is organised by who's running it. Find the profile that fits you, copy its input, and watch the columns that matter to your job.

Pick one entry mode ───────────────┐
   🔎 keywordDiscovery  (niche → creators)      │
   🧬 lookalikeDiscovery (seeds → lookalikes)   ├──▶  channel set ──▶ ENRICH each channel
   📋 channelContacts   (your own list)         │                          │
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                                        ┌───────────────────────────────────┐
                                        │  scan public contact sources:     │
                                        │   • About / channel description   │
                                        │   • 📌 newest video's pinned comment │
                                        │   • recent video descriptions     │
                                        │   • 🌐 linked websites / link-in-bio │
                                        └───────────────────────────────────┘
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                              🎯 filter (contactFilter · subs · sponsor score)
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                          one rich creator row  ▶  📧 emails · 📞 phones · socials
                                                  · 📊 audience metrics · 🤝 sponsor history

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👤 If you run brand & sponsor outreach

You want creators who already take brand deals and have an inbox that reads pitches. Discover them by niche, filter for sponsor readiness, and keep only creators with an email.

{
  "scrapeType": "keywordDiscovery",
  "searchQueries": ["personal finance", "tech reviews"],
  "region": "US",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "contactFilter": "emailOnly",
  "minSubscribers": 10000,
  "minSponsorReadinessScore": 40
}

The columns you live in:

Field	Why it matters
sponsorReadinessScore	0–100 read on how sponsor-ready a creator is — sort your list by it
sponsorBrands	Brands detected in recent sponsored videos — see who they've already worked with
sponsoredVideosFound · latestSponsoredAt	How often and how recently they run sponsorships
sponsorshipSignals	The phrases that flagged it (sponsored, use code, #ad, …)
primaryEmail · primaryEmailRole	The best inbox, tagged partnerships / business / management when it is one
avgRecentViews · viewRatePercent	Real reach per video, not just subscriber vanity

The Sponsor intelligence dataset tab is built for exactly this: reach, cadence, sponsored-video count, brands, signals, and both scores side by side.

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🏢 If you do agency prospecting & lead-gen

You have lists, and you need them enriched into a clean, contactable CRM feed — every email domain checked, every channel tagged with a priority. Feed the channels you already have straight in.

{
  "scrapeType": "channelContacts",
  "channels": ["@mkbhd", "https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium"],
  "contactFilter": "contactableOnly",
  "validateEmails": true,
  "scanWebsites": true,
  "followSocialProfiles": true
}

The columns you live in:

Field	Why it matters
emails · emailRoles · emailValidations	Every email found, each with its role and a domain check
primaryEmailValidation	valid_domain / invalid_domain / disposable — don't burn sends on dead inboxes
primaryEmailConfidence · primaryEmailSourceType	How sure, and where it came from (description, pinned comment, website…)
phones · primaryPhone	Phone numbers with their source URLs
websiteUrl + social links	instagramUrl, xUrl, tiktokUrl, linkedinUrl, discordUrl, and more
contactPriorityScore	0–100 outreach priority blending reach, contact quality, and sponsor score
hasHiddenEmail	Flags a business email hidden behind YouTube's contact form

Prospecting a niche from scratch instead of enriching a list? Swap scrapeType to keywordDiscovery and add searchQueries — same columns come back. The Contacts tab lays out every email, role, validation, phone, and social link in one grid.

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🎬 If you're a creator looking for collaborators

You want peers in your lane — similar size, similar topics, worth a shout-out or a collab. Seed it with channels you admire and let it surface lookalikes.

{
  "scrapeType": "lookalikeDiscovery",
  "seedChannels": ["@mkbhd"],
  "lookalikeQueriesPerSeed": 3,
  "minSubscribers": 10000,
  "maxSubscribers": 500000,
  "activeWithinDays": 90
}

The columns you live in:

Field	Why it matters
channelName · channelHandle · channelUrl	Who they are and how to reach the channel
subscriberCount · videoCount · totalViews	Size at a glance — match your tier
avgRecentViews · uploadFrequencyPerMonth	Are they active and actually watched?
latestVideoDate	Last upload — activeWithinDays keeps only the live ones
country · keywords · description	Confirm they're really in your niche and region
sourceSeedChannel	Which of your seeds surfaced them

Every lookalike still carries the full contact surface, so a collaborator you like is already a lead you can email.

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📇 The creator row, in full

Whichever profile you used, one flat row per creator comes back. Grouped by what it describes:

• 📊 Channel & audience — channelId · channelName · channelHandle · channelUrl · avatarUrl · isVerified · subscriberCount · totalViews · videoCount · country · joinedDate · latestVideoDate · avgRecentViews · viewRatePercent · uploadFrequencyPerMonth · description · keywords · externalLinks
• 📧 Contacts — primaryEmail · primaryEmailRole · primaryEmailValidation · primaryEmailConfidence · primaryEmailSourceType · primaryEmailSourceUrl · emails · emailRoles · emailValidations · emailSourceTypes · emailSourceUrls · phones · primaryPhone · websiteUrl and social links (instagramUrl, xUrl, tiktokUrl, linkedinUrl, githubUrl, discordUrl, telegramUrl, whatsappUrl, facebookUrl, twitchUrl) · hasHiddenEmail · contactEnrichmentStatus · pinned-comment fields
• 🤝 Sponsor intelligence — sponsorReadinessScore · contactPriorityScore · sponsoredVideosFound · sponsorBrands · sponsorshipSignals · latestSponsoredAt · recentVideosScanned · recentVideoTitles

primaryEmailRole resolves to one of partnerships, business, management, booking, creator, personal, press, support, jobs, legal, or unknown. primaryEmailValidation is one of valid_domain, invalid_domain, disposable, unknown, or not_checked.

Four dataset tabs slice the same rows: Leads (the quick scan), Contacts (everything contact-related), Sponsor intelligence (reach + sponsorship), and Channel details (the full raw record). Inputs that fail go to a separate errors dataset, and a run summary lands in the key-value store under OUTPUT.

After every run, the status line says exactly how many leads were saved, how many include an email, how many sources failed, and how long it took. Open Run summary for contact coverage, warnings, and the next useful action. A valid-but-unusable source does not crash the Actor: the run ends normally with INPUT_NEEDS_ATTENTION and shows the exact field to fix.

Contact enrichment starts from links published on the channel itself. Sponsor and affiliate links found in recent video descriptions are still retained for sponsor intelligence, but their websites are not treated as the creator's contact source.

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⚙️ Input reference

Provide at least one starting list for your mode: channels, searchQueries, or seedChannels.

Field	What it does
scrapeType	channelContacts · keywordDiscovery · lookalikeDiscovery
channels	Channel URLs, @handles, IDs, or video URLs (channelContacts)
searchQueries	Keywords / niches to discover creators (keywordDiscovery)
seedChannels	Example channels to find lookalikes from (lookalikeDiscovery)
lookalikeQueriesPerSeed	Topic searches derived per example channel (1–6)
maxChannelsPerQuery	Candidates collected per keyword before dedup (1–200)
maxResults	Global cap on creators saved (1–1000)
region	Localizes search & channel pages — 30 regions supported
contactFilter	allChannels · contactableOnly · emailOnly
minSubscribers · maxSubscribers	Subscriber range (0 = off)
minAverageViews	Minimum average recent views (0 = off)
activeWithinDays	Keep only creators active within N days (0 = off)
minSponsorReadinessScore	Keep creators scoring at/above this (0–100)
recentVideosToScan	Recent videos analyzed for contacts, metrics & sponsor signals (0–20)
scanPinnedComment · scanWebsites · followSocialProfiles	Toggle each contact source
validateEmails	Check mail-server availability & flag disposable domains
maxExternalLinks · maxWebsitePages · websiteScanTimeoutSecs	Depth & budget for the website/bio scan
videoEnrichmentTimeoutSecs	Time budget for video analysis per creator (5–30)
maxConcurrency · maxRetries · requestTimeoutSecs	Speed vs. thoroughness
proxyConfiguration	Optional — Apify datacenter proxy by default; direct and custom proxies remain supported

Supported regions: 🇺🇸 US · 🇬🇧 UK · 🇨🇦 Canada · 🇦🇺 Australia · 🇩🇪 Germany · 🇫🇷 France · 🇪🇸 Spain · 🇮🇹 Italy · 🇳🇱 Netherlands · 🇵🇱 Poland · 🇧🇷 Brazil · 🇲🇽 Mexico · 🇦🇷 Argentina · 🇮🇳 India · 🇮🇩 Indonesia · 🇯🇵 Japan · 🇰🇷 South Korea · 🇹🇼 Taiwan · 🇵🇭 Philippines · 🇹🇭 Thailand · 🇻🇳 Vietnam · 🇹🇷 Turkey · 🇺🇦 Ukraine · 🇨🇿 Czechia · 🇸🇪 Sweden · 🇳🇴 Norway · 🇩🇰 Denmark · 🇫🇮 Finland · 🇿🇦 South Africa · 🇦🇪 UAE

It's fully request-only — no account, no browser, no cookies. Emails come only from public sources: the channel description, the newest video's pinned comment, recent video descriptions, and any linked websites or link-in-bio pages you allow it to scan. Each run uses one scrapeType; run several and the rows merge cleanly since they share one shape.

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Tags: youtube · youtube scraper · email finder · lead generation · influencer marketing · creator outreach · sponsorship · contact scraper · social media