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How to find a YouTube channel's email

YouTube hides the business email behind a captcha button. Here is how to get emails for many channels at once.

Short answer

Run the YouTube Channel Email Finder with a list of channels. It returns a contact row for each channel with channelEmail, social links and subscriber count, pulled from the description, links and the channel's website.

A real use case

A VPN brand wants to sponsor 50 tech channels. They paste the 50 handles and get emails for 38 of them, plus Instagram and X links for the rest.

Step by step

  1. Paste channels as @handles or channel URLs.
  2. Turn on channel contact rows and website reading.
  3. Keep results per source low (3) if you only want contacts.
  4. Run and filter rows where resultType is channel.

Input (paste into the JSON tab)

{
  "channels": [
    "@techchannelone",
    "@techchanneltwo"
  ],
  "includeChannelContacts": true,
  "fetchChannelWebsite": true,
  "maxResultsPerSource": 3
}

What you get back

{
  "resultType": "channel",
  "channelName": "Tech Channel One",
  "channelSubscribers": 412000,
  "channelEmail": "business@techchannelone.com",
  "channelEmailSource": "description",
  "instagramUrl": "https://instagram.com/techchannelone"
}

Trimmed example. Names and numbers are illustrative; your run returns real data with more fields.

Tips

  • The channel contact row is free; you pay for video rows.
  • hasBusinessEmail tells you a channel has an email behind YouTube's button even when it is not published elsewhere.

What it costs

$1.50 per 1,000 videos; contact rows are free. 50 channels × 3 videos cost about $0.23.

Plus a small per-run start fee. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit, enough to test. Check the listing for current pricing.

FAQ

Does it bypass YouTube's captcha?

No. It reads emails published in the description, links and channel website.

Related

Try it on your own data

Paste the input above, run it, and see your results in a couple of minutes.

Open YouTube Shorts & Channel Email Finder