Apify YouTube Email Scraper

This skill should be used when the user asks to "find YouTube channel emails", "scrape YouTube contacts", "get YouTuber email addresses", "extract YouTube channel info", "find influencer emails", "search YouTube channels", or needs to collect contact information from YouTube channels.

YouTube Email Scraper with Apify

Find email addresses and contact information from YouTube channels. Search by keyword or provide channel URLs directly. Useful for influencer outreach, sponsorship, and lead generation.

Actor: futurizerush/youtube-email-scraper

Prerequisites

Set APIFY_API_TOKEN in environment. Get a token at console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Execution Flow

Apify runs are asynchronous. Every request follows 3 steps:

1. Start a run -- POST to the actor API, receive a run ID and dataset ID
2. Poll until done -- GET the run status, wait for SUCCEEDED
3. Fetch results -- GET the dataset items (returns a JSON array)

Typical run time: 30-120 seconds depending on channel count.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
inputMode	string	Yes	"directUrls" or "keywordSearch"
channelUrls	array of strings	For directUrls mode	YouTube channel URLs
searchKeywords	array of strings	For keywordSearch mode	Keywords to search channels
maxChannelsPerKeyword	integer	No	Max channels per keyword. Default: 50
maxResults	integer	No	Max total results. Default: 100
locale	string	No	Locale for search. Default: "US"

Mode differences

• directUrls -- Scrape specific channels. Requires channelUrls.
• keywordSearch -- Find channels by keyword, then extract contacts. Requires searchKeywords.

Complete Example (Python)

import requests, os, time

TOKEN = os.environ["APIFY_API_TOKEN"]
BASE = "https://api.apify.com/v2"

# Step 1: Start the run
response = requests.post(
    f"{BASE}/acts/futurizerush~youtube-email-scraper/runs?token={TOKEN}",
    json={
        "inputMode": "keywordSearch",
        "searchKeywords": ["AI automation"],
        "maxChannelsPerKeyword": 10,
        "maxResults": 10,
        "locale": "US",
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
run = response.json()["data"]
run_id = run["id"]
dataset_id = run["defaultDatasetId"]

# Step 2: Poll until done
while True:
    status = requests.get(
        f"{BASE}/actor-runs/{run_id}?token={TOKEN}"
    ).json()["data"]["status"]
    if status == "SUCCEEDED":
        break
    if status in ("FAILED", "ABORTED", "TIMED-OUT"):
        raise RuntimeError(f"Run failed: {status}")
    time.sleep(5)

# Step 3: Fetch results (JSON array)
items = requests.get(
    f"{BASE}/datasets/{dataset_id}/items?token={TOKEN}"
).json()

# Filter channels with emails
for channel in items:
    if channel["hasEmails"]:
        print(f"{channel['channelName']} ({channel['subscriberCount']} subs)")
        print(f"  Emails: {', '.join(channel['emails'])}")
        print(f"  URL: {channel['channelUrl']}")

Direct channel URLs

requests.post(
    f"{BASE}/acts/futurizerush~youtube-email-scraper/runs?token={TOKEN}",
    json={
        "inputMode": "directUrls",
        "channelUrls": [
            "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
            "https://www.youtube.com/@nateherk",
        ],
    },
)

Complete Example (bash)

# Step 1: Start the run
RUN_RESPONSE=$(curl -s -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/futurizerush~youtube-email-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"inputMode": "keywordSearch", "searchKeywords": ["AI automation"], "maxChannelsPerKeyword": 10, "maxResults": 10}')

RUN_ID=$(echo "$RUN_RESPONSE" | jq -r '.data.id')
DATASET_ID=$(echo "$RUN_RESPONSE" | jq -r '.data.defaultDatasetId')

# Step 2: Poll until done
while true; do
  STATUS=$(curl -s "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/$RUN_ID?token=$APIFY_API_TOKEN" \
    | jq -r '.data.status')
  [ "$STATUS" = "SUCCEEDED" ] && break
  [ "$STATUS" = "FAILED" ] || [ "$STATUS" = "ABORTED" ] && echo "Failed: $STATUS" && exit 1
  sleep 5
done

# Step 3: Fetch results
curl -s "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/$DATASET_ID/items?token=$APIFY_API_TOKEN" | jq '.'

Output Format

Each item in the results array (field names verified from real API output on 2026-04-11):

{
  "channelName": "Nate Herk | AI Automation",
  "subscriberCount": "645.0K",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@nateherk",
  "channelDescription": "Hi, I'm Nate Herk. I'm passionate about...",
  "joinDate": "Nov 17, 2013",
  "viewCount": 405328,
  "videoCount": 383,
  "location": null,
  "contactInfo": {
    "emails": ["[e-mail]"],
    "websites": ["https://nateherk.com/"],
    "socialMedia": {}
  },
  "emails": ["[e-mail]"],
  "websites": ["https://nateherk.com/"],
  "socialMedia": {},
  "emailCount": 1,
  "hasEmails": true,
  "descriptionUrls": [],
  "extractedAt": "2026-04-11T06:07:13.204Z",
  "processingSuccess": true,
  "searchKeyword": "AI automation"
}

Note: Field names use camelCase. The emails array is a flat convenience field; the same data is also in contactInfo.emails. Use hasEmails to quickly filter channels that have contact emails.

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Fix
401 Unauthorized	Invalid or missing API token	Check APIFY_API_TOKEN
invalid-input: "must be equal to one of the allowed values"	Wrong inputMode value	Use "directUrls" or "keywordSearch" (exact strings)
No emails found	Channel doesn't list email publicly	Try more channels or different keywords

Tips

• Use hasEmails: true to quickly filter channels with public emails.
• subscriberCount is a string (e.g. "645.0K") not a number.
• contactInfo contains structured data; emails and websites at root level are flat convenience arrays.
• For influencer outreach, search by niche keyword to find relevant channels with emails.
• searchKeyword in output tells you which query found each channel (useful with multiple keywords).
• No login or YouTube API key required.

Links

• Actor page
• Apify API docs