the youtube email scraper that visits each creator's real website — and uses AI to score how reachable they are. extract verified emails, niche, country, language, and a contactability score (1–10) for any creator on youtube. follows linktree, beacons, and 19 other bio-link aggregators to find the actual website behind the channel.
most "youtube email scrapers" only read the channel description. that's a few lines of text where creators rarely paste a working email — the email lives somewhere else, and the scraper never goes to look. the result is the same complaint across every outreach team: under 10% hit rate, hours of manual cleanup, lists that don't convert.
three places the email is actually hiding:
youtube channel descriptions are short and rarely contain a contact email. creators who do list contact info usually link out — to a website, a portfolio, or a bio-link page — instead of pasting an address. a description-only scraper stops at the description and returns a username list you still have to research one-by-one. 5–10% hit rate, in line with what every other youtube scraper publishes.
a huge share of creators don't link straight to a website — they link to a Linktree, Beacons, Bio.link, or one of 18 other aggregators. basic scrapers stop dead at the aggregator page. this scraper auto-follows the aggregator through to the real destination — 21 supported aggregators in total, including Linktree, Beacons, Bio.link, Tap.bio, Campsite, Carrd, Solo.to, Stan Store, AllMyLinks, Flowpage, and Jotform.
when creators DO list emails, they obfuscate them: hello [at] domain [dot] com, name (at) site . com. naïve regex misses every variant. this scraper handles the formats that other tools skip — so the contact you can actually see on the page is the contact you actually get in the export.
all three handled, plus AI enrichment on every lead — niche, country, language, content type, and a contactability score from 1 to 10. you only pay $0.04 per email actually found. no email found = no charge.
from a niche keyword to an enriched email list. you only pay for emails actually found — typical run cost: $4.00 for 100 emails.
/contact, /about, footer, mailto: links — and pulls verified emails. obfuscated formats like hello [at] domain [dot] com are handled.one structured record per email found. identity, contact, AI-enriched qualifiers, and engagement — drop straight into a CRM or cold-email tool.
| group | fields | what it's for |
|---|---|---|
| identity | channelName, channelUrl, website | who they are and where to find them. website is the real destination behind any bio-link aggregator — useful for QA and personalization. |
| contact | email, emailSource, socialLinks | the conversion data. emailSource tells you how the email was found (e.g. verified); socialLinks is the cross-platform list of profiles found on the way. |
| AI enrichment | niche, language, estimatedCountry, contentType, contactabilityScore | the qualifier set. filter on contactabilityScore ≥ 7 to focus your outreach on the highest-confidence creators. included at no extra cost — niche, country, and language come with every email found. |
| engagement | subscribers | size qualifier. filter post-scrape to isolate micro-creators (10K–100K subs), mid-tier (100K–1M), or top-tier (1M+) for the campaign you're running. |
honest comparison. pricing pulled from each competitor's public site at the time of writing — confirm with the vendor before buying. our edge is structural: visits the creator's website + AI-enriches every lead with a contactability score.
| feature | this scraper (data-runner.dev) | Modash | Scravio | IGLeads | Influencers.club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| description email extraction | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| website email extraction (visits creator's site) | yes — AI-detected contact page on the real website | not advertised | not advertised | not advertised | not advertised |
| bio-link aggregator follow (Linktree, Beacons, etc.) | yes — 21 aggregators auto-followed | not advertised | not advertised | not advertised | not advertised |
| obfuscated email handling ([at] / [dot]) | yes | not advertised | not advertised | not advertised | not advertised |
| AI enrichment (niche / country / language) | yes — included on every lead | filterable in DB; per-lead enrichment not advertised | not advertised | "AI assistant suggests keywords" — not per-lead enrichment | filterable in DB; per-lead enrichment not advertised |
| contactability scoring (1–10) | yes — AI score on every lead | not advertised | not advertised | not advertised | not advertised |
| subscriber count | yes | yes | yes | not advertised | yes |
| email hit rate | 40–60% on profiles with reachable websites | not advertised | 30–60% (own claim, profiles with public emails) | not advertised | not advertised |
| pricing | $0.04 per email found. no email = no charge. no subscription. | 14-day free trial; paid tiers not on product page | free trial; full pricing not on product page | $59 / $149 / $299 per month (10K / 50K / unlimited emails) | free trial; full pricing not on product page |
| setup | run on Apify in 30s. JSON / CSV / Excel / API / Zapier / Make / n8n / HubSpot / Salesforce | web app + Influencer Marketing API + Shopify integration | web app, CSV / Excel export | web app, CSV export | web app, API access, Claude MCP integration |
scenarios are illustrative, not testimonials — the scraper is brand-new on Apify and we don't fake reviews. share your own use case and we'll feature it here.
an agency builds a youtube outreach list for a fitness brand — searches "fitness creators USA", caps at 200 channels. roughly 80–120 emails surface across the run (40–60% hit rate). ~80–120 emails × $0.04 = $3.20–$4.80. each lead arrives with niche, country, language, and a contactability score, so the agency filters to score ≥ 7 and drops the cleaned list straight into Instantly for a sponsorship pitch. no manual research pass needed.
a CPG brand seeding product to mid-tier creators runs five niche queries ("clean beauty", "skincare routine", etc.), 100 channels each. across the run roughly 200–300 emails land in the dataset. ~250 emails × $0.04 = $10.00. the team filters on contactabilityScore ≥ 8 and subscribers between 50K and 500K, leaving them with ~80–120 high-confidence outreach targets. every other youtube scraper would have returned a username list with no way to rank reachability.
a podcast host books five guests a month and runs a single weekly scrape on rotating niche keywords ("longevity researcher", "climate journalist"). 50 channels per run, roughly 20–30 emails surfaced. ~25 emails × $0.04 = $1.00 per run, ~$4 per month. the host filters on language: "English" and estimatedCountry to match the show's audience, then picks 10 outreach candidates per week. AI niche detection means even unfamiliar creator territory gets categorized for triage.
a SaaS team launching in three regions runs the scraper on niche keywords for each market — "developer tutorials", "productivity youtuber", capped at 200 per region. ~600 channels searched × ~50% hit rate × $0.04 = ~$12. the team segments the export by estimatedCountry for region-specific outreach copy and by language for translation routing. socialLinks on each record gives the BD lead a cross-platform cross-check before pitching. for cross-platform creator workflows, the catalog also includes a TikTok email scraper that uses the same visit-website model.
you only pay Apify when an email is actually found. no email = no charge. no monthly fee. no minimum. AI enrichment (niche, country, language, contactability score) is included at no extra cost on every lead.
100 emails = $4.00 · 500 emails = $20.00 · 1,000 emails = $40.00
each "email" includes the channel identity (name, url, website), the verified email + source, AI enrichment (niche, language, country, content type, contactability score 1–10), and cross-platform social links — one structured record per email found.
no email found = no charge. if a channel returns no email, that channel costs you $0.
new to Apify? you get $5 in free credits on signup — that's 125 emails on the house before you spend a cent of your own.
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The YouTube Email Scraper is a tool that extracts verified contact emails from YouTube channels at scale. Unlike basic scrapers, it visits each channel's real website — following Linktree, Beacons, and 19 other bio-link aggregators (21 supported in total) — then uses AI to enrich every lead with niche, country, language, content type, and a contactability score from 1 to 10. Pricing is $0.04 per email found, with no charge when no email is found and no monthly subscription. Runs on Apify; exports to JSON, CSV, or Excel.
Six steps. (1) It searches YouTube by keyword or takes direct channel URLs. (2) It visits each channel's page and extracts every available link. (3) It auto-follows bio-link aggregators (Linktree, Beacons, Bio.link, Tap.bio, Campsite, and 16 others — 21 total) to find the real website behind the channel. (4) It uses AI to detect the right contact page on that website. (5) It scrapes verified emails — including obfuscated formats like 'hello [at] domain [dot] com' that other scrapers miss. (6) It AI-enriches every lead with niche, language, country, content type, and a contactability score.
Description-only scrapers typically return emails for under 10% of channels, because YouTube channel descriptions rarely contain a working email. This scraper achieves a 40–60% hit rate on channels with a reachable website, because it follows bio-link aggregators (Linktree, Beacons, and 19 others) through to the real site and uses AI to detect the contact page. Hit rate varies by niche — creator-economy verticals (tech, fitness, lifestyle) trend higher than gaming or short-form personal channels.
Yes. Pass a search query — niche-specific keywords work best ('fitness creators USA' beats 'fitness', 'wedding photographer' beats 'photographer'). The scraper searches YouTube for matching channels, returns up to maxResults channels, and enriches each one with email + niche + country + language + contactability score. You can also combine search with direct channel URLs — use search to discover and add channels you already know in the same run.
Yes. The scraper auto-follows 21 bio-link aggregators in total — Linktree, Beacons, Bio.link, Linkbio, Tap.bio, Campsite, Lnk.bio, Hoo.be, Koji, Carrd, Solo.to, Snipfeed, Stan Store, AllMyLinks, Flowpage, Link.space, ContactInBio, Milkshake, Shorby, Jotform, and Direct.me. When a creator links a Linktree-style page from their channel, the scraper goes through the aggregator to the actual destination website and pulls emails from there. That's one of the main reasons the hit rate sits at 40–60% rather than under 10% like description-only tooling.
Yes. When creators list emails like 'hello [at] domain [dot] com' or 'name (at) site . com' to avoid scraping, naïve regex misses them. This scraper handles those formats, so the contact you can actually see on the page is the contact you actually get in the export.
A contactability score is an AI-generated rating from 1 to 10 attached to every email the scraper finds, where 10 means 'easiest to reach' and 1 means 'lowest probability of conversion'. It synthesizes signals like email source (business vs personal), website quality, and presence of a contact page. Filter your export to contactabilityScore ≥ 7 to focus outreach on the highest-confidence creators — typical effect: cut your list size by ~30% but lift reply rate meaningfully.
Yes. Apify exposes a REST API and webhook system out of the box, plus native CSV / JSON / Excel exports. Common patterns: push results to Google Sheets via Zapier or Make, sync into HubSpot or Salesforce by API or webhook, or chain into an n8n workflow that dedupes against your existing creator list and routes new contacts into a cold-outreach sequence. The Apify API key plus the actor ID is all the integration needs.
Run the scraper on niche keywords matching your target creator type with maxResults set to your campaign size — for a 500-channel sweep, expect roughly 200–300 emails (40–60% hit rate) at a cost of ~$8–$12. Export as CSV, filter on contactabilityScore ≥ 7 and the subscriber band you want (10K–100K for micro-creators, 100K–1M for mid-tier), then drop the cleaned list straight into Instantly, Lemlist, HubSpot, or your outreach tool of choice. The AI-enriched niche / country / language fields let you segment the campaign without a manual research pass.
The scraper only extracts publicly available data from YouTube channels and public websites. Scraping public data is generally permissible in most jurisdictions, but how you use the output is what matters: ensure your outreach complies with applicable data-protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, CAN-SPAM), and consult your legal team if your specific use case is unusual. See the data-runner.dev disclaimer for the full policy.
$0.04 per email found · $5 free Apify credit on sign-up · JSON, CSV, Excel, API, n8n out of the box
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