YouTube Channel Email Finder

Give it YouTube channels or search keywords, get back the business email of each creator when one is public. You get one row per channel, with the email, where it was found and whether its mail server is valid.

You only pay for channels where an email was found. A channel with no email still comes back in the dataset, for free.

What people use it for

• Influencer outreach. Search a niche ("home espresso", "b2b saas") and get a list of creators with their contact email, subscriber count and country.
• Sponsorship and partnership teams. Paste the channels you already shortlisted and get the address to pitch.
• Agencies building creator databases. Run thousands of channels and keep only the ones with a reachable email.
• Enriching a CRM. You have channel URLs in a sheet, you want the emails next to them.

How to use it

1. Add your creators in Channels, one per line. Any of these works:
   • a handle: @mkbhd or mkbhd
   • a channel URL: https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium
   • a channel id: UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA
   • a video URL (we find the channel that posted it)
2. Or add Search keywords to discover channels, and set Max channels per keyword (default 20).
3. Click Start. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull the results through the API.

{
  "channels": ["@mkbhd", "https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium"],
  "searchQueries": ["home espresso"],
  "maxChannelsPerQuery": 20
}

What you get

{
  "name": "MKBHD",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
  "handle": "@mkbhd",
  "numberOfSubscribers": 21300000,
  "country": "United States",
  "emails": [
    {
      "email": "business@MKBHD.com",
      "source": "description",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd/about",
      "mxValid": true
    }
  ],
  "primaryEmail": "business@MKBHD.com",
  "hasHiddenEmail": true,
  "links": [{ "title": "Twitter", "url": "https://twitter.com/MKBHD" }],
  "emailSource": "public"
}

• primaryEmail: the address to use. When a channel has several, we pick a valid business address (business@, partnerships@, contact@...) over a personal or utility one.
• emails[]: every email found, with source (about page, channel links, video descriptions, website, link-in-bio page) and the exact sourceUrl, so you can check it yourself.
• mxValid: whether the domain's mail server exists.
• hasHiddenEmail: true when the creator also has an email behind YouTube's "View email address" button.
• Subscribers, country and the channel's links come with every row.

Where the emails come from

For each channel we look at:

1. the about page description and the links listed on the channel
2. the creator's own website (home page, then pages like /contact or /about) and link-in-bio pages such as Linktree, Beacons or Stan Store
3. if still nothing, the descriptions of the 10 most recent videos. We keep only an email that appears in several of them, so a sponsor's address in one video does not end up as the creator's
4. if still nothing, a deep search (see below)

We drop emails that belong to sponsors, brands or platforms the creator links to (Patreon, Skool, Gumroad...). You get the creator's address or nothing.

Deep search

When the creator publishes no email anywhere, we try to find their professional email from who they are, not from what they posted:

• if the channel links to the creator's personal LinkedIn profile, we use it to look up their work email;
• otherwise, we take the creator's name from the channel and the domain of their own website, or of the company their channel says they run (for example "CEO at Acme" with a link to acme.com), and look up the address at that domain.

We never search a sponsor's or a brand's domain, nor a platform the creator merely uses (Patreon, Skool, Gumroad, Shopify...). You are charged only when the lookup returns a valid email, and it becomes primaryEmail only with a high or medium confidence. When there is nothing to search with, the step is skipped and the channel comes back without email, for free.

These emails are marked "source": "deep_search" and "emailSource": "deep_search", so you can tell them apart from the ones the creator published, and carry verified and confidence fields. Deep search runs automatically and costs 0.10 USD per email found, never on a miss (see Pricing).

Pricing

• 4.50 USD per 1,000 channels with a public email found (steps 1 to 3 above).
• 100 USD per 1,000 channels found by deep search (0.10 USD each), charged only when it returns a valid email, and only on channels where nothing public was found.
• A channel is charged once at most. Channels with no email, and error rows, are free.

No monthly fee, no charge for the Apify platform usage on top. You can cap a run's spend with Apify's "max charge per run" setting.

Example: 1,000 channels where 400 have a public email and the deep search finds 50 more costs 1.80 + 5.00 = 6.80 USD.

Good to know

• We do not click "View email address". That email sits behind a Google sign-in and often a captcha, and we never use logged-in accounts. Many large creators only publish their email there: you get hasHiddenEmail: true and no address for those.
• You don't need a proxy or a YouTube account.

Use it from n8n, Make or an API

• Small inputs: call run-sync-get-dataset-items and read the items back directly. Set Time budget (seconds) (default 240) to how long you are willing to wait: the actor stops starting new channel lookups before that point and returns what it already has, so you never hit Apify's 300 second run-sync limit and lose the whole run. Any channel or keyword left unfinished comes back as a TIME_BUDGET_EXCEEDED row instead of being silently dropped.
• Big inputs: start the run with POST /v2/acts/vakitek~youtube-channel-email/runs, poll GET /v2/actor-runs/<runId> (or add waitForFinish=60) until the status is SUCCEEDED, then read GET /v2/datasets/<datasetId>/items. Set Time budget (seconds) to 0 (no limit) for this pattern.

Errors

A bad input never crashes the run. It becomes a row with an error code, and you are not charged for it.

error	What happened	Retry?
NOT_FOUND	The handle, URL or id doesn't match a real channel	No
NO_RESULTS	A search query matched no channel	No
INVALID_URL	The channel input isn't a channel handle, id or URL	No
INVALID_INPUT	A query or option value is invalid	No
DUPLICATE	Two different inputs resolved to the same channel; the second one is free	No
BLOCKED	YouTube refused us for now, even after trying every proxy tier	Yes
UPSTREAM_ERROR	Something went wrong on YouTube's side or ours	Yes
UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE	Our API was unreachable	Yes
TIME_BUDGET_EXCEEDED	The time budget ran out before this channel or keyword finished	Yes

Some rows also carry a legacyError field with the old, pre-unification code name (for example CHANNEL_NOT_FOUND or LOGIN_REQUIRED) so a pipeline still matching on it keeps working while it migrates to error.

Reliability

Success rate, last 30 days: 99.0 % of 98 results across 36 runs (updated 2026-10-10). Failures counted: blocks, errors on our side, and runs that failed or timed out. Not counted: videos with no captions, private or deleted videos, bad links.

FAQ

Why do I get no email for a big creator I know has one? Their email is probably behind YouTube's "View email address" button, which needs a signed-in account. Check hasHiddenEmail: if it's true, that's the reason.

Are the emails verified? We check that the domain has a working mail server (mxValid). That catches typos and dead domains, but it doesn't guarantee the inbox exists.

I already use another YouTube email actor. Do I have to change my code? Probably not much. We use the same input channels and the same output fields emails, primaryEmail and hasHiddenEmail.

Can I call it from my code or from an AI agent? Yes, like any Apify actor: REST API, the Python and JavaScript clients, or the Apify MCP server. The examples are in the API tab.

Something broke or an email looks wrong? Open an issue on this page with the channel. We read every one and usually answer within a day.