YouTube Email Scraper

Scrapes publicly available business contact information from YouTube channels, including emails, websites, and social media links. Designed for legitimate outreach and partnership research.

Overview

This Apify actor automates the discovery of YouTube channels and the extraction of their public contact details. It searches channel descriptions, video descriptions, and linked external websites to find business emails. It only retrieves information that is publicly visible without requiring login.

What it CAN scrape:
* Business emails shown in channel info.
* Contact emails in channel descriptions.
* Emails from websites linked by the creator.
* All public social media profiles.

What it CANNOT scrape:
* Emails behind a "View email address" button (requires login).
* Protected or private contact info.

Key Features

• Dual Input Modes: Find channels via keyword search or process a direct list of channel URLs.
• Comprehensive Data Extraction: Captures emails, full channel description, subscriber count, external website links, social media profiles, and channel statistics (views, videos, location, join date).
• Data Quality: Includes validation to filter out spam and provide clean, usable results.
• Configurable Limits: Control the number of channels processed per keyword and overall.

How to Use

Configure the actor run using input JSON. Choose between two primary modes.

Input Mode 1: Keyword Search

Searches YouTube for channels related to your keywords.

{
  "輸入模式": "keywordSearch",
  "搜尋關鍵字清單": ["AI automation", "tech reviews"],
  "每個關鍵字最大頻道數": 50,
  "最大結果數": 100,
  "地區設定": "zh-TW"
}

Input Mode 2: Direct URLs

Processes a specific list of channel URLs.

{
  "輸入模式": "directUrls",
  "頻道網址清單": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd",
    "https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips"
  ],
  "地區設定": "zh-TW"
}

Input Parameters

Basic Settings:
* 輸入模式 (Required): keywordSearch or directUrls.
* 頻道網址清單: Array of YouTube channel URLs (for directUrls mode).
* 搜尋關鍵字清單: Array of search keywords (for keywordSearch mode).

Advanced Options:
* 每個關鍵字最大頻道數: Max channels to fetch per keyword (Default: 50).
* 最大結果數: Total max channels to process (Default: 100).
* 地區設定: YouTube region/locale setting (Default: zh-TW).

Output

The actor outputs a dataset where each item represents a processed channel with the following structure:

{
  "channelName": "Channel Name",
  "channelUrl": "https://youtube.com/@example",
  "subscriberCount": "1.5M",
  "emails": ["business@example.com"],
  "websites": ["https://example.com"],
  "socialMedia": {
    "instagram": "https://instagram.com/example",
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/example"
  },
  "contactInfo": {
    "emails": ["business@example.com"],
    "websites": ["https://example.com"],
    "socialMedia": {...}
  },
  "emailCount": 1,
  "hasEmails": true,
  "joinDate": "2015-03-15",
  "viewCount": 150000000,
  "videoCount": 500,
  "location": "United States",
  "extractedAt": "2024-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Use Cases & Ethical Guidelines

Typical Use Cases:
* Business development and partnership outreach.
* Influencer marketing prospecting.
* Market research and competitor analysis.
* Lead generation for B2B services relevant to creators.

Ethical Use:
* Allowed: Legitimate business outreach, professional collaboration proposals, market research.
* Not Allowed: Spam, unsolicited bulk messaging, harassment, or any activity violating privacy regulations (like GDPR).

Support

For assistance or feature requests, please contact support through the Apify platform.

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