YouTube Channel Contact Scraper — Email, Website & Socials

YouTube Channel Contact Scraper — Email, Website & Social Links

Find YouTube creators by niche or keyword and extract verified business emails, websites, social media links, subscriber counts, views, and country data in bulk — 1,000+ channels per run, no API key required.

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⚡ At a glance

Feature	Details
Target Data	YouTube Creator & Brand Channels (@handles, UC... IDs, Channel About Pages & Linked Websites)
Discovery Modes	20 One-Click Niche Presets + Custom Search Keywords + Direct Channel URLs / @handles
Contact Extraction	Business email, external website, socialLinks (Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Discord, Twitch, Patreon, etc.)
Website Fallback	Optional automatic website crawl (enrichFromWebsite) when no email is listed on YouTube
Scale & Pagination	Deep continuation pagination + automatic keyword expansion supporting 1,000+ unique channels
Filtering	Filter by minSubscribers, maxChannelsPerKeyword, and overall maxChannels
Export & Sync	Dataset (JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML) + automatic OUTPUT Key-Value Store mirror for run-sync API calls

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Find YouTube creators and pull their contact details in bulk. This YouTube contact scraper searches YouTube by keyword or niche preset — or takes a list of channels you already have — and extracts for every creator their business email, linked website, social media profiles, subscriber count, total views, video count, country, and join date. It is the fastest, most reliable way to scrape YouTube creator leads without opening hundreds of channel About tabs by hand — no YouTube Data API quota limits, no login, and no coding required.

Export your creator lead lists directly to JSON, CSV, Excel, or the Apify API.

Built for influencer marketing agencies, brand partnership and sponsorship managers, B2B creator-economy SaaS teams, talent scouts, PR teams, and growth marketers who need clean, outreach-ready YouTube lead generation data at scale.

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🔎 Why scrape YouTube channel contacts?

YouTube is the largest creator and video commerce ecosystem in the world. Almost every professional creator, educator, reviewer, and media brand publishes a public business inquiry email, an official website, and cross-platform social links (Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, Discord, LinkedIn, Patreon, Twitch) so sponsors and partners can reach them.

However, building a qualified outreach list manually is a major bottleneck:

• Contact details are split across the channel header, the About modal, description text, and external redirect links.
• Official YouTube API keys carry strict daily quota ceilings and do not return business emails or scrape external websites.
• Many creators omit their email from the YouTube description but display it prominently on the homepage of their linked personal website.

This YouTube email extractor and channel contact scraper automates the entire workflow in one fast, keyless run:

1. It discovers matching channels across your target niches or keywords using deep multi-page continuation pagination.
2. It visits each channel's About profile to extract subscriber counts, view metrics, country, description, external website, and social links.
3. If no business email is present on YouTube and enrichFromWebsite: true is enabled, it automatically fetches the creator's linked website to recover a verified domain contact address — while stripping out fake placeholder emails and Sentry/analytics tracking strings.

Common reasons teams scrape YouTube contacts

• Influencer sponsorship & brand deals — build niche creator shortlists filtered by minSubscribers with verified business emails and social handles in a single spreadsheet.
• Creator agency & MCN lead generation — prospect fast-growing YouTubers who need video editing, thumbnail design, sponsorship management, or merchandising services.
• B2B SaaS & affiliate recruitment — recruit tech reviewers, finance educators, and tutorial creators for affiliate programs and product launches.
• Multi-channel outreach sequences — combine direct email outreach with warm follow-ups on Instagram, TikTok, X, or LinkedIn using the extracted socialLinks.
• CRM & media-kit enrichment — paste an existing list of @handles or channel URLs into channelUrls and enrich every row with live subscriber counts, total views, country, and contact emails.
• Competitive & niche mapping — analyze which creators dominate a topic, how fast their view-to-subscriber ratios grow, and where they drive external traffic.

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✨ What this YouTube scraper does

• ✅ Three combinable input methods — pick from 20 ready-made creator niches (topicPreset), type unlimited custom search keywords (searchKeywords), or paste specific channel URLs / @handles / UC... IDs (channelUrls) — or combine all three in a single run.
• ✅ Unlocked 1,000+ channel pagination — follows YouTube search continuation tokens deep across pages and automatically expands seed keywords when maxChannels is set to hundreds or 1,000+ channels.
• ✅ Automatic website email enrichment (enrichFromWebsite) — when a creator's YouTube page does not expose an email, the Actor checks their linked official website (capped at 512 KB per page for speed and memory safety) and prioritizes emails matching the website's own domain.
• ✅ Strict email hygiene & noise filtering — automatically removes bogus placeholders (your@email.com, example@domain.com), image filenames, and script error-tracking DSNs (@*.ingest.sentry.io, wixpress.com, bugsnag.com) so your email column contains only genuine contact addresses.
• ✅ Complete social graph extraction — parses and normalizes external channel links into website, socialLinks (Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Discord, Twitch, Patreon, Threads, Reddit, Snapchat, Telegram, Pinterest, Spotify), and allLinks.
• ✅ Normalized numeric metrics — converts human-formatted counts ("710K subscribers", "2,266 videos") into clean integer strings (subscribers: "710000", videoCount: "2266", viewCount: "204206017") for effortless sorting and CRM filtering alongside raw subscribersText.
• ✅ Zero-input sample mode — leave all inputs blank and the Actor runs a curated multi-niche discovery mix to return 100 diverse creator channels out of the box.
• ✅ Dual storage output — pushes every record to the default Apify Dataset AND mirrors { count, channels } to the OUTPUT Key-Value Store record so synchronous run-sync API callers receive the full payload immediately.

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🎯 High-value use cases

Team / Role	Workflow	Key fields used
Influencer Marketing Managers	Find mid-tier and macro creators (minSubscribers: 25000) in beauty, fitness, gaming, or tech with direct emails.	channelName, handle, subscribers, country, email, socialLinks
B2B Growth & Affiliate Teams	Discover SaaS, AI, finance, and business channels to recruit as affiliate and launch partners.	channelName, email, website, viewCount, videoCount, description
Creator Economy Agencies	Build outbound prospect lists of active creators who have websites and social profiles.	handle, channelUrl, email, website, socialLinks, joinedDate
PR & Communications Teams	Identify journalists, podcasters, and independent commentators by topic and region.	channelName, country, email, website, description, subscribers
Data & RevOps Engineers	Enrich internal CRM tables of YouTube URLs/handles via automated API calls.	channelId, handle, subscribers, viewCount, email, website

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📥 Input configuration

All fields are optional. Pick a niche preset, enter custom keywords, paste channel URLs, or leave everything empty for a 100-channel multi-niche sample.

Field	Type	Default / Prefill	Description
topicPreset	array<string>	[]	One-click dropdown of 20 popular niches ("tech reviewer", "gaming", "beauty and makeup", "fitness and workout", "cooking and recipes", "travel vlogger", "personal finance", "business and marketing", "podcast", etc.).
searchKeywords	array<string>	["tech reviewer"]	Custom niches or search queries (e.g., "vegan recipes", "AI tools tutorial", "drone reviews"). Combine freely with topicPreset.
channelUrls	array<string>	[]	Specific channels to enrich — accepts full URLs (https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd), @handles (@LinusTechTips), or UC... channel IDs.
maxChannels	integer	0 (prefill 50)	Overall cap on total channels returned across all niches and keywords. Set 0 for unlimited, or 1000+ for bulk runs.
maxChannelsPerKeyword	integer	0 (prefill 50)	Maximum channels to collect per keyword (0 = auto-scaled by maxChannels / unlimited).
minSubscribers	integer	0	Only save channels with at least this many subscribers (e.g., 10000 for 10K+ creators). 0 keeps all channels.
enrichFromWebsite	boolean	true	When no email is found on the YouTube channel page, automatically fetch the channel's linked website to extract a contact email.
maxConcurrency	integer	10	Number of channels to process in parallel (1–30). Default 10 is fast and gentle.
proxyConfiguration	object	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Optional Apify Proxy configuration. Off by default for zero proxy cost; enable for very large 1,000+ channel runs.

Example 1 — Discover 1,000+ creators across multiple niches

{
  "searchKeywords": [
    "tech reviewer",
    "pc gaming setup",
    "ai software tutorial",
    "mechanical keyboard review",
    "smart home tech"
  ],
  "maxChannels": 1000,
  "maxChannelsPerKeyword": 250,
  "minSubscribers": 5000,
  "enrichFromWebsite": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 15
}

Example 2 — Enrich a list of known @handles and channel URLs

{
  "channelUrls": [
    "@mkbhd",
    "https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips",
    "@dave2d",
    "UC-v54XQalOcx5yco3aTixrg"
  ],
  "enrichFromWebsite": true
}

Example 3 — Zero-typing niche preset run for mid-to-large creators

{
  "topicPreset": [
    "beauty and makeup",
    "fitness and workout",
    "fashion and style"
  ],
  "maxChannels": 300,
  "minSubscribers": 50000,
  "enrichFromWebsite": true
}

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📤 Output schema & field reference

Each dataset item represents one unique YouTube channel with normalized audience metrics and enriched contact details.

Sample JSON output

{
  "channelName": "Chigz Tech Reviews",
  "handle": "@ChigzTech",
  "channelUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/@ChigzTech",
  "channelId": "UC-v54XQalOcx5yco3aTixrg",
  "subscribers": "710000",
  "subscribersText": "710K subscribers",
  "videoCount": "2266",
  "viewCount": "204206017",
  "country": "United Kingdom",
  "joinedDate": "Oct 2, 2011",
  "email": "chigz@chigztech.com",
  "website": "https://chigztech.com",
  "socialLinks": "https://twitter.com/ChigzTechReview, https://facebook.com/ChigzTechReviews, https://tiktok.com/@chigztech, https://instagram.com/chigztechreview",
  "allLinks": "https://chigztech.com, https://twitter.com/ChigzTechReview, https://facebook.com/ChigzTechReviews, https://tiktok.com/@chigztech, https://instagram.com/chigztechreview",
  "description": "Honest Tech Reviews • Comparisons • Buying Advice. Business Enquiries: chigz@chigztech.com",
  "aboutUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@ChigzTech/about",
  "error": "",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-08T15:10:29.794Z"
}

🆔 Channel Identity & Audience Metrics

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
channelName	string	🟢 High (~99%)	Official display name of the YouTube channel.
handle	string	🟢 High (~98%)	YouTube @handle (e.g., @ChigzTech).
channelUrl	string	🟢 High (~99%)	Canonical URL of the channel.
channelId	string	🟢 High (~99%)	Unique YouTube UC... identifier (24 characters).
subscribers	string	🟢 High (~96%)	Subscriber count parsed as a plain integer string (e.g., "710000").
subscribersText	string	🟢 High (~96%)	Human-readable subscriber count as displayed on YouTube ("710K subscribers").
videoCount	string	🟢 High (~96%)	Total public videos published by the channel as an integer string ("2266").
viewCount	string	🟢 High (~95%)	Lifetime channel views as an integer string ("204206017").
country	string	🟡 Conditional (~80%)	Creator's declared country on their About page (when published).
joinedDate	string	🟢 High (~95%)	Channel creation date (e.g., "Oct 2, 2011").

📧 Contact, Social & Enrichment Fields

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
email	string	🟡 Conditional (~38–55%)	Public business/contact email from the channel description, About page, or linked website (via enrichFromWebsite).
website	string	🟡 Conditional (~35–50%)	Primary external website or store URL linked on the channel profile.
socialLinks	string	🟡 Conditional (~55–70%)	Comma-separated list of social media URLs (Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Discord, Twitch, Patreon, etc.).
allLinks	string	🟡 Conditional (~68%)	Comma-separated list of all external URLs published on the channel's About tab.
description	string	🟢 High (~95%)	Full text of the channel's About description.
aboutUrl	string	🟢 High (100%)	Normalized /about URL fetched for the channel.
error	string	🟢 High (100%)	Empty string "" on success; populated only if a channel page returned an HTTP error.
scrapedAt	string	🟢 High (100%)	ISO 8601 timestamp when the channel was scraped.

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🔁 Pagination, deduplication & 1,000+ scale

This YouTube contact scraper is built to scale smoothly from a quick 50-channel test to 1,000+ creator leads:

1. Deep continuation pagination: For every keyword or niche preset, the Actor queries YouTube's channel search filter and iterates through continuation pages automatically until maxChannelsPerKeyword or maxChannels is reached.
2. Automatic query expansion for 1,000+ runs: When maxChannels exceeds what your initial keyword list can return on its own, the Actor automatically appends high-signal creator modifiers (channel, official, vlog, podcast, tutorial, review, guide, tips, studio, tv, media) to your seed keywords so single-keyword runs can still discover 1,000+ unique channels.
3. Canonical handle/URL deduplication: Every discovered channel and input URL is normalized to its canonical /about key before scraping, guaranteeing 0 duplicate channels even when multiple keywords overlap.
4. Parallel worker pool (maxConcurrency): Channel profile extraction and website email enrichment run concurrently (default 10, configurable up to 30), processing 50 channels in ~20–30 seconds and 1,000 channels in a few minutes.

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⚙️ How to use & automate

1. Open YouTube Channel Contact Scraper in the Apify Console.
2. Select one or more Popular niches (topicPreset), type Search keywords (searchKeywords), or paste Specific channels (channelUrls).
3. Set Max channels (total) (maxChannels, e.g., 50 for a quick preview or 1000 for bulk lead generation) and optional Minimum subscribers (minSubscribers).
4. Click Start and watch live progress messages as channels are discovered and enriched.
5. Download your lead list in CSV, Excel, or JSON, or integrate directly with HubSpot, Salesforce, Instantly, Smartlead, Make, Zapier, or Google Sheets.

Call via Apify API (cURL)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/haketa~youtube-contact-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "searchKeywords": ["tech reviewer", "ai tools"],
    "maxChannels": 200,
    "minSubscribers": 10000,
    "enrichFromWebsite": true
  }'

Python (apify-client) example

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("haketa/youtube-contact-scraper").call(run_input={
    "topicPreset": ["tech reviewer", "business and marketing"],
    "maxChannels": 250,
    "minSubscribers": 25000,
    "enrichFromWebsite": True,
})

for ch in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if ch.get("email"):
        print(f"{ch['channelName']} ({ch['subscribersText']}) -> {ch['email']} | {ch['website']}")

Node.js (apify-client) example

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor('haketa/youtube-contact-scraper').call({
  searchKeywords: ['fitness and workout', 'home gym review', 'calisthenics coach'],
  maxChannels: 500,
  minSubscribers: 10000,
  enrichFromWebsite: true,
  maxConcurrency: 15,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
const withEmail = items.filter((c) => Boolean(c.email));
console.log(`Collected ${items.length} channels (${withEmail.length} with verified emails)`);

Available 20 Niche Presets (topicPreset)

Preset value	Creator vertical	Typical sponsors & B2B buyers
tech reviewer	Consumer electronics, smartphones, laptops, PC builds	SaaS, VPNs, hardware brands, peripherals, apps
gaming	Gameplay, esports, hardware, indie & AAA game reviews	Gaming gear, energy drinks, mobile games, Discord tools
beauty and makeup	Skincare, cosmetics, tutorials, product hauls	D2C beauty, skincare clinics, fashion & lifestyle brands
fitness and workout	Gym routines, home workouts, running, strength training	Supplements, activewear, fitness apps, wearables
cooking and recipes	Home cooking, baking, meal prep, kitchen gear	Cookware, grocery delivery, specialty foods, appliances
travel vlogger	Destination guides, digital nomad, flights, hotels	Travel cards, luggage, booking platforms, eSIMs
personal finance	Investing, budgeting, credit cards, real estate, taxes	FinTech apps, brokerages, neobanks, tax software
business and marketing	Entrepreneurship, B2B SaaS, agencies, e-commerce	CRM, marketing automation, AI tools, B2B services
music	Music production, gear reviews, covers, vocal coaching	Audio plugins, instruments, microphones, distribution
education and tutorials	Coding, languages, productivity, academic explainers	EdTech platforms, bootcamps, productivity apps
fashion and style	Streetwear, menswear, capsule wardrobes, styling	Apparel brands, footwear, accessories, marketplaces
health and wellness	Nutrition, mindfulness, sleep, longevity, biohacking	Wellness brands, telehealth, supplements, trackers
podcast	Video podcasts, interviews, commentary, storytelling	Host-read ad networks, B2C/B2B sponsors, podcast tools
real estate	Property tours, real-estate investing, mortgage advice	PropTech, mortgage lenders, real-estate coaching
photography	Camera reviews, lighting, editing, cinematography	Camera gear, lenses, editing software, cloud storage
home and DIY	Woodworking, renovation, gardening, organization	Power tools, home improvement, smart home devices
automotive and cars	Car reviews, detailing, EVs, restoration, motorsport	Auto parts, insurance, EV chargers, detailing products
family and parenting	Family vlogs, baby gear, homeschooling, kids activities	Toy brands, family apps, household goods, apparel
comedy	Sketches, commentary, stand-up, entertainment	Consumer apps, streaming, snacks, broad-reach brands
science and technology	Deep tech, space, engineering, physics, AI research	STEM platforms, learning subscriptions, tech brands

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🔌 CRM & cold-outreach automation workflows

• Clay / Apollo / HubSpot enrichment: Trigger the Actor via webhook with a batch of channelUrls or searchKeywords, map email, website, subscribers, and socialLinks directly into your lead table, and score leads by Number(subscribers) and Number(viewCount).
• Instantly / Smartlead / Lemlist sequences: Filter your exported dataset to rows where email !== "", then use channelName, handle, subscribersText, and country as personalized merge variables in your cold email copy.
• Scheduled weekly niche monitoring: Schedule the Actor on Apify to run every Monday across your core keywords and push newly discovered creators to Google Sheets or Slack via Make or Zapier.

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💡 Pro tips for higher email coverage

• Keep enrichFromWebsite: true enabled: Roughly 20–30% of recovered business emails come from the creator's linked website when they don't write their email directly in the YouTube description.
• Target mid-size and business-focused niches: Channels with minSubscribers: 5000 to 500000 in B2B, tech, finance, fitness, beauty, and education publish public inquiry emails at a much higher rate than casual gaming or meme channels.
• Use specific vertical keywords: Instead of just "fitness", run ["kettlebell workout", "calisthenics coach", "marathon training", "mobility routine"] to uncover hundreds of specialized creators your competitors miss.

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⚠️ Honest limitations

• Publicly published emails only: Some YouTube emails sit behind an interactive reCAPTCHA "View email address" button inside logged-in sessions. This Actor does not solve CAPTCHAs; instead, it extracts emails published in channel descriptions, About metadata, and the creator's linked external website (enrichFromWebsite).
• Creator opt-in availability: Not every creator publishes an email or website. Across broad runs, ~68% of channels include at least one direct contact channel (email, website, or socialLinks), while 100% of reachable channels return full audience statistics (subscribers, viewCount, videoCount).

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Do I need a YouTube Data API key or Google login?

No. This Actor is 100% keyless and requires no Google account, cookies, or API key.

How many channels can I scrape in a single run?

You can collect from 10 to 1,000+ channels in a single run. Set maxChannels to your target number (or 0 for unlimited across your keyword list) and maxChannelsPerKeyword: 0 so each keyword scales automatically.

How does website email enrichment work?

When a channel links to an external website (e.g., https://chigztech.com) on its About page and no email was found on YouTube, the Actor fetches the website homepage, filters out script/tracking noise, and selects the best contact email (preferring addresses on the website's own domain).

Can I enrich an existing list of @handles or channel URLs?

Yes! Paste any mix of @handles, https://www.youtube.com/@... URLs, or UC... channel IDs into channelUrls. Leave searchKeywords and topicPreset empty to scrape only your exact list.

Does this Actor work with synchronous run-sync API calls?

Yes. In addition to pushing each channel to the default Apify Dataset, the Actor mirrors { count, channels } to the OUTPUT Key-Value Store record upon completion.

How are duplicate channels prevented across overlapping keywords?

Every discovered channel URL, @handle, and UC... ID is normalized to its canonical /about URL path in lowercase before scraping. Even if 10 different keywords surface the same creator, that channel is fetched and saved only once (0% duplicates).

What happens if I leave all inputs empty?

If topicPreset, searchKeywords, and channelUrls are all left empty, the Actor automatically seeds a curated 18-niche discovery mix (tech reviewer, gaming, beauty and makeup, fitness and workout, cooking and recipes, travel vlogger, personal finance, podcast, etc.) and collects 100 diverse creator channels (or your custom maxChannels target).

Are fake or tracking emails filtered out?

Yes. Automated scripts on external websites often embed error-tracking tokens that look like emails (e.g., 12345abc@o1.ingest.sentry.io, user@domain.com, example@mysite.com, or .png/.webp asset names). The Actor strips all placeholder and analytics tracking strings so only real contact addresses are saved.

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• Patreon Scraper — discover Patreon creators, membership counts, earnings, and social links.
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• Bulk Email Verifier — verify MX records, disposable domains, and deliverability before launching outreach.

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📋 Changelog

• v1.2 (2026-11) — Unlocked 1,000+ channel pagination: removed the 500-item schema ceiling on maxChannelsPerKeyword (now defaults to 0 = auto-scaled), removed the empty-run hardCap clamp when maxChannels is explicitly provided, scaled continuation pagination depth dynamically with limit, added automatic creator query expansion for high-volume single-keyword runs, and set fast prefill (maxChannels: 50) for sub-45-second default runs.
• v1.1 (2026-10) — Added Sentry/analytics tracking DSN filtering (isTrackingEmail), 512 KB memory-safe website enrichment cap, and OUTPUT Key-Value Store mirroring.
• v1.0 (2026-09) — Initial release with 20 niche presets, keyword continuation search, @handle / URL enrichment, and website email recovery.