YouTube Channel Email & Sponsor Lead Scraper

Turn public YouTube channel data into outreach-ready creator leads. Find public business emails, phones, websites and social profiles; verify a channel's published country against your target region; identify recent-video content languages; measure recent audience activity; verify sponsor signals with source videos; or discover explainable lookalike creators — without a YouTube login, cookies, or a browser.

Choose one simple workflow, set the number of creators you need, and press Start. Every workflow returns the same clean creator record, so results are easy to export to CSV, Excel, JSON, an API, a webhook, or your CRM.

🧭 How the Actor works

Choose one source
├─ 🔗 channelContacts    → channel URLs, @handles, IDs, or video URLs
├─ 🔍 keywordDiscovery   → niches and search phrases
└─ 🧬 lookalikeDiscovery → example channels
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      Discover + deduplicate creators
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   ┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │ Enrich public data                        │
   │ 📺 channel and audience metrics           │
   │ 🎬 recent videos and pinned comment       │
   │ 📧 public emails + domain validation      │
   │ 📞 phones, websites and public profiles   │
   │ 🤝 sponsor signals + evidence videos      │
   │ 🧬 similarity score + matching reasons    │
   └───────────────────────────────────────────┘
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     Apply contact, size and activity filters
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  Leads • Contacts • Sponsors • Lookalikes • Full details

🚀 How to use the Actor

Step 1 — Choose a workflow

Open the Input tab and select How should we find creators?

Workflow	Choose it when…	Fill in this field
🔗 Enrich channels I already know	You already have channel URLs, handles, IDs, or video URLs	YouTube channels or videos
🔍 Discover creators by niche	You want creators from a topic such as fitness, finance, SaaS, or gaming	Keywords or niches
🧬 Find similar creators	You have one or more example channels and want relevant alternatives	Example channels

Only the source field for the selected workflow is used. You can paste one item or many items, one per line.

Step 2 — Add your starting point

Accepted channel inputs:

• @demo_creator
• https://www.youtube.com/@demo_creator
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_EXAMPLE_ID
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEMO_VIDEO_ID

For niche discovery, use focused phrases such as personal finance creators, home fitness, or B2B SaaS tutorials. Several focused searches usually produce better leads than one broad word such as business.

Step 3 — Choose the region behavior

YouTube search region localizes YouTube discovery for the selected market. Then choose how exact the result must be:

• 🌍 Localized discovery — recommended uses the selected market as a ranking hint and keeps relevant creators even when their published country is different or unavailable.
• 📍 Strict country match saves only channels whose public YouTube country exactly matches the selected region. Channels that hide their country are excluded rather than guessed.

Every saved row explains the outcome through targetRegion, channelCountryCode, regionMatch, and regionMatchStatus. The run summary shows matched, different, and unknown coverage.

Step 4 — Choose the result size and depth

• Maximum creators to save is the final global limit after duplicates are removed.
• ⚡ Fast is best for quick screening: light channel and recent-video analysis, without external website scans.
• ⚖️ Balanced is recommended: recent videos, pinned comments, linked websites, public profiles, email-domain checks, and sponsor intelligence.
• 🔬 Deep checks more recent videos and linked pages, public secondary channels, older contact-oriented uploads, structured/obfuscated website data, common contact paths and public contact forms. Use it when completeness matters more than speed.

Step 5 — Apply optional lead filters

• Creators with any contact is the recommended default. It avoids saving completely contactless rows.
• Creators with an email keeps only email-ready leads.
• Subscriber, recent-view, activity, and Sponsor Readiness filters can narrow the list before it is saved.
• Use 0 to disable a numeric filter.

Step 6 — Start and open the right result view

Press Start. As soon as results are saved, the Leads table is the first output shown. You can switch to another view when needed:

• Leads — the quickest CRM-ready shortlist with lead tier, best contact route, regional match, and qualification reasons.
• Contacts — emails, phones, evidence URLs, websites, and social profiles.
• Sponsor intelligence — sponsor brands, evidence videos, activity, reach, and scores.
• Lookalike creators — similarity score, shared topics, and clear matching reasons.
• Channel details — the widest technical record.
• Run summary — saved/filtered/failed counts, contact coverage, warnings, duration, and suggested next steps.

🎯 Ready-to-run examples

Find sponsor-ready creators in a niche

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

Enrich a list of channels

{
  "scrapeType": "channelContacts",
  "channels": [
    "@demo_creator",
    "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_EXAMPLE_ID"
  ],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "contactFilter": "contactableOnly",
  "enrichmentDepth": "balanced"
}

Find lookalike creators

{
  "scrapeType": "lookalikeDiscovery",
  "seedChannels": ["@demo_tech_channel"],
  "maxResults": 30,
  "contactFilter": "allChannels",
  "enrichmentDepth": "fast",
  "minSubscribers": 10000,
  "activeWithinDays": 120
}

The lookalike score is an explainable heuristic based on public topics, the discovery query, and relative audience size. It does not claim access to private audience-overlap data. similarityReasons names the shared topics, the seed-derived search a channel came from, and how its audience compares in subscribers; similarityBreakdown gives each signal's contribution to the score, so a low score says which signal was missing rather than leaving it unexplained.

Channels YouTube generates itself — the - Topic audio pages and other auto-generated entries — are dropped during discovery in both search modes. They publish no owner and can never sponsor anyone, so enriching them wasted a result slot; candidateSupply.autoGeneratedSkipped reports how many were skipped.

📦 Output schema — what data do you get?

One dataset row represents one successfully processed creator. The schema stays consistent across all three workflows.

Schema group	Fields
📺 Identity	channelId, channelName, channelHandle, channelUrl, avatarUrl, isVerified, description, keywords, country, joinedDate, channelLinkTitles, channelLinkUrls
🌍 Region verification	targetRegion, channelCountryCode, regionMatch, regionMatchStatus, regionMatchSource
🗣️ Content language	primaryContentLanguage, contentLanguages, contentLanguageConfidencePercent, contentLanguageCoveragePercent, contentLanguageSource
🔎 Discovery source	sourceMode, sourceInput, sourceQuery, sourceSeedChannel, sourceSeedChannelId, searchRank
📊 Audience	subscriberCount, totalViews, videoCount, avgRecentViews, viewRatePercent, uploadFrequencyPerMonth, latestVideoDate
📧 Emails	primaryEmail, primaryEmailRole, primaryEmailValidation, primaryEmailConfidence, primaryEmailSourceType, primaryEmailSourceUrl, emails, emailCount, emailRoles, emailValidations, emailSourceTypes, emailSourceUrls
📞 Other contacts	phones, phoneCount, primaryPhone, phoneSourceTypes, phoneSourceUrls, websiteUrl, websiteUrls, websiteCount, socialUrls, socialLinkCount, instagramUrl, xUrl, tiktokUrl, linkedinUrl, githubUrl, discordUrl, telegramUrl, whatsappUrl, facebookUrl, twitchUrl
🤝 Sponsors	sponsorReadinessScore, contactPriorityScore, sponsoredVideosFound, sponsoredVideoRatePercent, sponsorBrands, sponsorshipSignals, latestSponsoredAt, sponsorEvidence, sponsorEvidenceUrls
🏆 Lead qualification	leadTier, leadStatus, recommendedContactMethod, qualificationReasons, qualificationMethod
🧬 Lookalikes	similarityScore, similarityBreakdown, sharedTopics, similarityReasons, audienceSimilarity, similarityMethod
🎬 Enrichment	recentVideosScanned, recentVideosDetailed, recentVideoIds, recentVideoTitles, videoEnrichmentStatus, pinnedCommentStatus, pinnedCommentVideoId, pinnedCommentAuthor, pinnedCommentText, pinnedCommentUrls
🛠️ Quality status	contactStatus, hasEmail, hasAnyContact, hasLinks, externalLinkCount, hasHiddenEmail, protectedEmailStatus, alternativeEmailSourceTypes, contactFormUrl, contactFormUrls, secondaryChannelScanStatus, secondaryChannelsScanned, archivedContactSearchStatus, archivedContactVideosScanned, contactEnrichmentStatus, contactPagesScanned, contactSourcesAttempted, contactSourceFailures, status, scrapedAt

Example output object

All values below are fictional examples.

{
  "channelName": "Demo Creator",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@demo_creator",
  "subscriberCount": 184000,
  "avgRecentViews": 42600,
  "targetRegion": "US",
  "channelCountryCode": "US",
  "regionMatchStatus": "matched",
  "primaryContentLanguage": "en",
  "primaryEmail": "partnerships@example.test",
  "emailCount": 1,
  "primaryEmailRole": "partnerships",
  "primaryEmailValidation": "not_checked",
  "phones": ["+12025550104"],
  "phoneCount": 1,
  "contactStatus": "EMAIL_AVAILABLE",
  "websiteUrls": ["https://example.test/contact"],
  "sponsorReadinessScore": 84,
  "sponsoredVideosFound": 2,
  "sponsoredVideoRatePercent": 40.0,
  "sponsorBrands": ["Example Brand"],
  "sponsorEvidenceUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEMO_VIDEO_ID"],
  "leadTier": "A",
  "recommendedContactMethod": "email",
  "similarityScore": 91,
  "sharedTopics": ["camera", "reviews", "technology"],
  "similarityReasons": ["Shares 3 public topic(s) with the seed: camera, reviews, technology"],
  "status": "success"
}

Sponsor evidence object schema

Each sponsorEvidence item has this shape:

{
  "videoId": "DEMO_VIDEO_ID",
  "videoTitle": "Example sponsored video",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEMO_VIDEO_ID",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00",
  "brands": ["Example Brand"],
  "signals": ["sponsored by", "paid promotion disclosure"],
  "confidence": 95,
  "evidenceText": "Sponsored by Example Brand."
}

How contact fields should be read

• primaryEmail is the highest-priority public email found, not simply the first address on a page.
• primaryEmailRole labels likely use: partnerships, business, management, booking, creator, personal, press, support, jobs, legal, or unknown.
• primaryEmailValidation checks the email domain/MX setup. It does not send a message and cannot guarantee that an individual mailbox accepts mail. primaryEmailValidationScope states this on every row: domain_mail_records_only when the check ran, not_checked when it did not.
• The Creators with an email filter keeps only creators whose address sits on a domain that can receive mail. Addresses on domains with no mail records, and disposable domains, no longer satisfy the filter; they are still listed as secondary evidence when a deliverable address exists. Inconclusive checks (a DNS timeout) count as deliverable, because a timeout is not evidence against an address.
• primaryEmailSourceUrl and phoneSourceUrls let you verify contact evidence at its public source.
• channelLinkTitles stays aligned with channelLinkUrls, preserving the labels published on the channel.
• websiteUrls and socialUrls separate public creator sites from social profiles; the count fields make CRM filtering easier.
• hasHiddenEmail: true means YouTube indicates a protected business-email form exists. YouTube's logged-out response contains only “Sign in to see email address”; the exact protected value is not present, so the Actor does not claim to reveal it or bypass login/CAPTCHA.
• In Deep mode, protectedEmailStatus: alternative_public_email_found means the Actor found an independently public email in channel/video text, a linked secondary channel, a creator-linked site/profile, structured page data, or an older contact-oriented upload. The corresponding primaryEmailSourceUrl remains the evidence.
• protectedEmailStatus: youtube_protected_only means all bounded public alternatives were checked but no current source-backed email was found. The Actor keeps social links, websites and contactFormUrl as alternative outreach routes.
• Stale third-party email lists and guessed mailbox patterns are not promoted into primaryEmail.
• Creator-owned websites found in public video descriptions can be checked when their domain matches the channel identity. Unrelated sponsor sites are not treated as creator contact sources.

How sponsor evidence works

Recent video metadata and descriptions are checked for paid-promotion disclosure and phrases such as sponsored by, paid partnership, affiliate link, use code, and #ad.

Always review the evidence URL before making a business decision: these are strong public signals, not a legal determination that a sponsorship occurred.

⚙️ Input schema

The normal Input screen intentionally shows only the settings most users need. Older API integrations can still send the advanced fields listed below.

Field	Type	Meaning
scrapeType	string	channelContacts, keywordDiscovery, or lookalikeDiscovery
channels	string[]	Channel/video sources used by channelContacts
searchQueries	string[]	Topics used by keywordDiscovery
seedChannels	string[]	Example channels used by lookalikeDiscovery
maxResults	integer	Maximum saved creators, from 1 to 1000
region	string	Two-letter market used to localize YouTube discovery
regionFilter	string	localized (ranking hint) or strict (require an exact published-country match)
contactFilter	string	contactableOnly (default), emailOnly, or allChannels
enrichmentDepth	string	fast, balanced (default), or deep
minSubscribers / maxSubscribers	integer	Subscriber range; 0 disables the limit
minAverageViews	integer	Required average across analyzed recent videos
activeWithinDays	integer	Require a recent upload within N days; 0 disables it
minSponsorReadinessScore	integer	Required score from 0–100; 0 disables it

Enrichment preset schema

Preset	Videos	Website/profile scan	Email-domain check	Best for
fast	1	No	No	Fast qualification and broad discovery
balanced	5	Up to 4 linked destinations and 2 pages/site	Yes	Most outreach lists
deep	12	Up to 10 linked destinations and 6 pages/site	Yes	Maximum public enrichment

Deep is the heavy, completeness-first mode; it has no results-per-minute target. It uses full watch-page metadata for up to 12 videos, with 9 creators processed concurrently by default, up to 90 seconds for video enrichment and 45 seconds per website phase. If a full video page is unavailable, public JSON can preserve its available description; that result remains marked partial. Source timeouts and financial guards still apply.

Deep starts creator-linked websites while loading recent videos, then uses any remaining destination slots for newly discovered creator-owned sites. A domain is crawled once per creator; link-aggregator destinations share the same limit. Activity/view filters run before website work when enabled. Each website phase has its own bounded timeout; unreachable sources remain explicitly partial. Deep reads full public video pages; lighter modes use bounded YouTube metadata responses. Shortened description links are resolved to their published targets. Language fields identify native metadata versus text inference.

Advanced API-compatible settings: lookalikeQueriesPerSeed, maxChannelsPerQuery, recentVideosToScan, videoEnrichmentTimeoutSecs, scanPinnedComment, scanWebsites, followSocialProfiles, validateEmails, maxExternalLinks, maxWebsitePages, websiteScanTimeoutSecs, maxConcurrency, maxRetries, requestTimeoutSecs, and proxyConfiguration. An explicitly supplied advanced value overrides the selected depth preset.

Supported regions: 🇺🇸 US · 🇬🇧 GB · 🇨🇦 CA · 🇦🇺 AU · 🇩🇪 DE · 🇫🇷 FR · 🇪🇸 ES · 🇮🇹 IT · 🇳🇱 NL · 🇵🇱 PL · 🇧🇷 BR · 🇲🇽 MX · 🇦🇷 AR · 🇮🇳 IN · 🇮🇩 ID · 🇯🇵 JP · 🇰🇷 KR · 🇹🇼 TW · 🇵🇭 PH · 🇹🇭 TH · 🇻🇳 VN · 🇹🇷 TR · 🇺🇦 UA · 🇨🇿 CZ · 🇸🇪 SE · 🇳🇴 NO · 🇩🇰 DK · 🇫🇮 FI · 🇿🇦 ZA · 🇦🇪 AE

YouTube's gl market setting localizes search but is not an exact creator-location filter. Use Strict country match when exact geography matters. The Actor uses only the country a creator publicly publishes on YouTube; it never guesses a hidden location. Content-language fields use YouTube metadata when available and otherwise a local recent-title/description heuristic; contentLanguageSource and coverage show which method produced the result.

🔌 API example

Replace YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN with a secret stored outside your source code.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/trakk~youtube-channel-email-sponsor-leads/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "scrapeType": "keywordDiscovery",
    "searchQueries": ["home fitness creators"],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "contactFilter": "emailOnly",
    "enrichmentDepth": "balanced"
  }'

For recurring lead lists, save the input as an Apify Task, then use Schedules to run it daily or weekly. Use Webhooks or an integration to send completed datasets to another system.

💳 Pricing

This Actor uses Pay per event pricing:

• A tiny Actor-start event is charged when a run starts.
• The primary charge applies only to a successfully saved creator row.
• The current public tier is $5 per 1,000 saved creators, with lower per-result prices on higher Apify tiers (down to $4 per 1,000). The Pricing tab is the source of truth for your account.
• Filters can reduce saved rows. A source that fails or a creator that is filtered out is not pushed as a successful creator result.

Start with 10–20 results and Fast or Balanced depth to measure contact coverage before ordering a larger list.

🛟 Troubleshooting and data notes

The run summary says invalid_input

This is intentional and does not count as a crash. Open Run summary and read the exact message. Usually the selected workflow has no usable source value, or a channel URL/handle is malformed.

Fewer rows were saved than maxResults

maxResults is a cap, not a guarantee, but the Actor now works at it instead of stopping at the first pass. Filters are applied after enrichment, so rejected creators are replaced with fresh candidates from the searches that still have unread pages, up to six replacement rounds and a candidate pool of four times maxResults. candidateSupply in the run summary reports how many replacements were pulled, how many rounds ran, and whether the pool was exhausted.

Duplicates, inaccessible channels, discovery supply, contactFilter, subscriber/view/activity filters, and Sponsor Readiness filters can still reduce the final count when the source genuinely runs out of matching channels. The run summary separates discovered, processed, filtered, duplicate, and failed counts.

The Actor also stops when the spending limit or an internal resource bound is reached. Deep has a separate allowance for larger full video pages: 32 MiB initially plus 8 MiB per saved creator (up to 1 GiB per run); this does not raise the monetary or residential limits. Repeated bot-challenge pages are skipped after the first full-source attempt and public metadata remains available through the bounded JSON fallback. Restrictive email-only searches can require inspecting many creators to find a few matching leads. resourceBudget.stopReason explains a resource stop, and completed rows remain available. Reduce enrichment depth or broaden the filters when this happens.

Email-domain checks are bounded to 50 extracted addresses per creator and 2,000 domains per run. Additional public addresses remain in the results with not_checked validation; domain validation is not a mailbox-deliverability guarantee.

querySummaries reports collected candidates, pagination limits, per-query outcomes, and the run's stop reason. A failed later search page does not discard candidates collected from earlier pages. Language estimates use a bounded text sample; uncertain short text remains unknown.

The run summary says PARTIAL

PARTIAL means at least one optional enrichment reported less than a full result, not that the saved rows are wrong. enrichmentQuality in the run summary splits it into video, contact and pinned-comment shortfalls. A video whose primary source was refused and then collected through the fallback route is complete: it is counted in videoSourceFallbacks, and videoEnrichmentStatus stays completed, so partial now means videos are actually missing.

Some fields are empty

The Actor returns only data publicly exposed by YouTube or by pages the channel links to. Not every creator publishes an email, phone, country, website, sponsor disclosure, or complete statistics. Empty values are returned as null or an empty array instead of invented data.

Why did a website scan stop early?

The Actor checks the remaining result-charge allowance before discovery, bounds unsuccessful work and residential traffic, and stops when its resource guard is reached. A resource stop can return fewer than maxResults; see OUTPUT.resourceBudget.stopReason. MX validation checks at most 50 unique email addresses per creator and 2,000 domains per run while retaining other extracted addresses as not_checked.

Every enrichment depth uses bounded time budgets so one slow site cannot stall the whole run. Check contactEnrichmentStatus, videoEnrichmentStatus, secondaryChannelScanStatus, archivedContactSearchStatus, contactPagesScanned, contactSourcesAttempted, and contactSourceFailures. Use Deep if the extra completeness is worth the additional runtime.

Is this an official YouTube product?

No. This is an independent data-extraction tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube. Use public contact data responsibly and follow applicable privacy, marketing, and platform rules.

✅ What happens after every run?

The terminal status stays short and readable. The final Run summary reports:

• requested, discovered, processed, saved, filtered, duplicate, and failed counts;
• creators with any contact, an email, or sponsor signals;
• contact and email coverage percentages;
• selected workflow, enrichment depth, region, duration, warnings, and next steps.

If this Actor saves you research time, a ⭐ Store review helps other teams find it and tells me what to improve next.

Tags: youtube scraper · youtube email finder · creator leads · influencer marketing · sponsor intelligence · lookalike creators · lead generation