# YouTube Channel Email & Lead Finder (`yasaslive/youtube-channel-email-finder`) Actor

Find YouTube channels by keyword or URL and get their public emails, subscribers, views, country, website and Instagram/TikTok/X links. Emails from channel descriptions and linked websites. Built for influencer outreach and B2B leads.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/yasaslive/youtube-channel-email-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [Eonix Pvt Ltd](https://apify.com/yasaslive) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 channel scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## YouTube Channel Email & Lead Finder

Find **YouTube channels by keyword** (or paste channel URLs) and get their **public contact emails**, subscriber counts, total views, country, website and **Instagram / TikTok / X / Facebook / LinkedIn** links in one clean table. Built for **influencer marketing, sponsorship outreach, agencies and B2B lead generation**.

### What you get

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| title, url, handle | Jeremy Ethier, youtube.com/channel/UC..., @JeremyEthier |
| email / emails | business@example.com |
| emailSource | channel description / linked website |
| subscribers, totalViews, videoCount | 7940000, 1.2B, 480 |
| country, joinedDate | Canada, Nov 2, 2012 |
| website, instagram, tiktok, twitter, facebook, linkedin | https://... |
| hasHiddenBusinessEmail | true if YouTube hides a business email behind the "View email" button |

### How it works

1. Searches YouTube for channels matching your keywords (or uses your channel list).
2. Reads each channel's **About** page: description, stats, country and links.
3. Extracts emails from the description. If none, it visits the channel's **own website** (home, contact, about) to find one.
4. Filters by subscriber range so you can target **micro-influencers** (e.g. 10k–100k).

### Pricing (pay per result)

- **$0.003 per channel** scraped
- **+$0.01 only when an email is found**

1,000 channels with ~300 emails ≈ **$6**. Turn on *Only return channels with an email* to pay only for leads you can contact. No subscription, no YouTube API key, no login.

### Input example

```json
{ "searchQueries": ["fitness coach", "home workout"], "maxChannelsPerQuery": 100, "minSubscribers": 10000, "maxSubscribers": 200000, "onlyWithEmail": true }
```

### Use cases

- Influencer & creator outreach lists for brands and agencies
- Sponsorship prospecting for podcasts, newsletters and apps
- Market research: who are the top creators in a niche and where are they based
- Enrich a list of channel URLs with emails and socials

### FAQ

**Does it reveal the hidden "View email address" business email?** No — that requires solving a captcha while logged in. We flag it with `hasHiddenBusinessEmail` so you know the creator has one.
**Is it legal?** It only collects information that channel owners publish publicly. You are responsible for complying with GDPR/CAN-SPAM when contacting people.
**Integrations:** Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n or via API.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Find channels by niche keyword, e.g. 'fitness coach', 'crypto news', 'vegan recipes'. Each keyword returns up to 'Max channels per keyword'.

## `channelUrls` (type: `array`):

Channel links, @handles or channel IDs (UC...). Example: https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd or @mkbhd.

## `maxChannelsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

How many channels to collect for each search keyword.

## `minSubscribers` (type: `integer`):

Skip channels with fewer subscribers (0 = no limit). Skipped channels are not charged.

## `maxSubscribers` (type: `integer`):

Skip channels with more subscribers (0 = no limit). Useful for finding micro-influencers.

## `onlyWithEmail` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, channels without a public email are dropped and not charged.

## `crawlWebsites` (type: `boolean`):

If the channel description has no email, visit the channel's own website (home, contact, about pages) to find one.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel channel requests.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy is recommended.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "fitness coach"
  ],
  "maxChannelsPerQuery": 20,
  "minSubscribers": 0,
  "maxSubscribers": 0,
  "onlyWithEmail": false,
  "crawlWebsites": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Channels with emails, stats and social links.

## `allFields` (type: `string`):

Every field for every item.

## `stats` (type: `string`):

Counters for this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "fitness coach"
    ],
    "maxChannelsPerQuery": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("yasaslive/youtube-channel-email-finder").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQueries": ["fitness coach"],
    "maxChannelsPerQuery": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("yasaslive/youtube-channel-email-finder").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "fitness coach"
  ],
  "maxChannelsPerQuery": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call yasaslive/youtube-channel-email-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,yasaslive/youtube-channel-email-finder"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/gtG7ZNXKiTIelcPSD/builds/bnM4KCoVFV3012dck/openapi.json