YouTube lead generation

# YouTube Channel Email Finder

Get the contact email behind any YouTube channel, alongside its videos, Shorts, views, likes, tags and exact publish dates. No API key, no quota, no separate email-finder subscription.
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## Contacts and video data in one run

Most email finders charge per contact and give you nothing else. This actor returns one **free contact row per channel** with the email from the channel description, the linked website and any social handles — and, in the same run, the channel's videos with their metrics.

- One free contact row per channel — contacts do not cost extra
- Email from the channel description, then the website or link hub as fallback
- Social and website links found on the channel
- Videos and Shorts: views, likes, comments, tags, full description, category
- Exact publish dates, not relative ones
- Channels, keyword search or individual video URLs as input

**Why exact dates matter.** YouTube shows "3 months ago" to visitors. That is useless for reporting and impossible to sort. This actor resolves the real ISO date for each video.

```
{
  "type": "channel",
  "channelName": "Example Studio",
  "handle": "@examplestudio",
  "subscribers": 84200,
  "emails": ["hello@examplestudio.com"],
  "website": "https://examplestudio.com",
  "socials": {
    "instagram": "examplestudio",
    "x": "examplestudio"
  }
}
```

## How it works

1. **Point it at channels, a search term, or video URLs.**`@handle`, `/channel/UC…`, `/c/name`, a keyword search, or specific Shorts and watch URLs.
2. **Choose videos, Shorts, or both.** For channels, "both" reads the Videos and Shorts tabs separately so a Shorts-heavy creator does not look inactive.
3. **Turn on contact rows.** One free row per channel with emails and links. If the description has no email, the actor can open the linked website or link hub and look there.

### Useful inputs

| Input | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Only videos newer than | Keep just the last N days — good for daily monitoring runs. |
| Include full video details | Adds likes, comment counts, tags, description, category and exact publish date. |
| Read the channel website | Falls back to the linked site or link hub when the description has no email. |
| Max results in total | A hard cap on rows, so a wide search cannot run past budget. |

## Pricing

Pay per video result. Channel contact rows are free.

| Event | When it is charged | Price |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Actor start | Once per run | $0.003 |
| Video result | Per video or Short written to the dataset | $0.0015 |

That is **$1.50 per 1,000 videos**. Apify's volume discounts apply automatically as your account tier rises.

Scraping only contacts? Run the actor with a small per-channel video limit and you still get every channel's contact row — a 500-channel outreach list costs well under a dollar.

## Where people use it

### Creator outreach

Sponsorship teams building a list of channels in a niche, with the contact email resolved before outreach starts.

### Lead generation

Any team that treats YouTube as a directory: coaches, agencies, SaaS companies selling to creators.

### Competitor tracking

Daily runs over a competitor set, filtered to the last seven days, keeping a record of views and upload cadence.

## Questions

**Where do the email addresses come from?**

From what the channel makes public: the "About" description first, then the linked website or link hub if the description has nothing. No guessing, no pattern-matching names into addresses.

**Do contact rows cost extra?**

No. One contact row per channel is included free with the run. You only pay for video results.

**Do I need the YouTube Data API or an API key?**

No. The actor does not use the YouTube Data API, so there is no key to register, no 10,000-unit daily quota and no per-project limit.

**Does it work for Shorts?**

Yes. Shorts are a first-class content type — you can scrape Shorts only, videos only, or both.

**Can I search by keyword instead of listing channels?**

Yes. Each search query behaves as its own source, and you can cap results per query and in total.

**What if a channel has no public email?**

The contact row comes back with whatever is public — website and social links — and no email, rather than a fabricated one. You are not charged for video rows you did not request.

## Resolve a hundred channel emails today

Paste a list of handles or a search term and check the contact rows against your current list.
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