YouTube Channel Email Scraper

YouTube Channel Email Scraper: the business address a creator published on their own channel

Give it channel links, @handles or UC... ids and you get one row per channel holding the e-mail addresses that creator wrote into their own description, each one tagged with the page it was read from. Linked websites are an optional second pass.

The awkward part first. Plenty of creators publish no address at all. Those channels still come back as a successful row with an empty emails list, and they still count, because resolving the channel is the work either way. Price a list of five hundred on that basis, not on the ones that hit.

🔍 What YouTube Channel Email Scraper does

It reads the public About view of every channel on your list and pulls out the addresses written into the description. https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd, @mkbhd and a bare UC... id all mean the same channel, so you can paste whatever forms your list already has.

Each address arrives with a source. emailSources carries one entry per address with its sourceType and the exact sourceUrl, so you can open that page and see it yourself before anyone gets a message.

primaryEmail is only ever an address from the channel description. Anything picked up on a linked website stays in externalWebsiteContacts and is never promoted, because a shop's support inbox is not the creator's business contact, and treating it as one is how an outreach list goes bad.

📥 What you give it

{
  "channelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd", "@Apify"],
  "maxChannels": 50,
  "crawlLinkedWebsites": false
}

Run it with the input empty and you get one labelled sample row, free, so you can look at the shape before spending anything.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run. The fixed privacy note at the bottom is cut short so the block stays readable:

{
  "ok": true,
  "channelName": "Marques Brownlee",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd/about",
  "emails": ["[email protected]"],
  "primaryEmail": "[email protected]",
  "emailSources": [
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "sourceType": "channel_description",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd/about"
    }
  ],
  "externalWebsiteContacts": [],
  "websiteUrls": ["http://shop.mkbhd.com/", "http://reddit.com/"],
  "websitesChecked": [],
  "privacyNote": "Only emails openly published in the channel description or linked public website pages are returned. ..."
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row land in your dataset.

A diagnostic row never fails the run and is never billed.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open YouTube Channel Email Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Paste your channels into YouTube channels, one per line. 3. Set Maximum channels low while you are testing, since you pay per channel. 4. Leave Check linked public websites off for the first run. Turn it on once you know the channel pass gives you what you need. 5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$1.50 per 1,000 channels. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

The linked-site pass is the one extra. Tick Check linked public websites and a channel where a site was attempted costs $2.50 per 1,000 on top. Leave the box alone and you pay the channel price only.

A channel that publishes no address still counts as a channel. The sample row and every diagnostic row are free, and if nothing resolves, no rows are charged.

💡 What people use it for

• Building a sponsorship short list. Pull a few hundred channels in a niche, keep the ones with a

real business address, and open YouTube only for those.

• Checking a list you already bought or built, against what the creator actually publishes today.
• Finding the right inbox. A creator often lists one address for business and links a site with a

different one for support, and the row keeps them apart.

• Research on a niche: what share of channels publish any contact route at all.

🚧 What it does not do

• No hidden addresses. YouTube keeps some behind a click-to-reveal check. This never touches

that button, so if the creator did not write the address in plain text, it is not in the output.

• No guessing. It never invents firstname@domain and never falls back to a bought contacts

database.

• A written-out address is converted, and that conversion is literal. name at domain dot com

is read as an address, which also means ordinary prose like "available at Amazon.com" can produce one. Check emailSources and open the page before you mail anyone.

• Addresses with non-ASCII characters are dropped rather than returned half-right.
• The About view only. No videos, no comments, no subscriber history.
• Two linked sites per channel, two pages each, same host. The bound is deliberate and it is

not raisable.

• maxChannels counts your raw list, before duplicates are collapsed, so the same channel

written as a handle and as a UC... id takes two slots and is read twice.

• Channels are read one at a time and the run stops after five minutes. A list in the hundreds

may not reach the end. Split it across runs.

• It does not send anything. No mail, no messages, no contact form.

🧭 Which YouTube actor do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a YouTube account or an API key? Neither. Channels are read the way a logged-out visitor sees them.

What happens on a channel with no address? A successful row with an empty emails list, and it counts as a channel. That is the main thing to budget for.

Can it get an address YouTube hides? No. The reveal button is behind a check meant to be passed by a person, and this leaves it alone.

Is this legal? It reads public channel pages and public website pages only. The output is personal contact data, which GDPR, CAN-SPAM and similar laws cover, so you need a lawful reason to collect it and to write to anyone. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a reasonable starting point, and we are not lawyers.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Nothing is held between runs, so the same list is safe to repeat. Diff on channelUrl and primaryEmail to see what changed.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Include the channels you used and the run id, and the log is usually enough for us to see what happened.