YouTube B2B Email Scraper

Overview

This actor is a lead generation tool that extracts publicly available business contact information from YouTube. It crawls videos, channels, shorts, and posts based on your search criteria, identifying and returning verified business emails along with their source context.

Key Features

• Multi-Source Scraping: Collect data from Videos, Channels, Shorts, Posts, or all content types.
• Targeted Search: Use keywords to find relevant YouTube content for prospecting.
• Geographic Filtering: Limit results to a specific country for more relevant leads.
• Business Email Detection: Identifies and extracts business emails from descriptions and channel info, focusing on B2B data.
• Dual Scraping Engines:
  • Cost Effective: A faster, asynchronous engine optimized for lower cost.
  • Legacy: A more stable and precise extraction engine.
• Structured Output: Returns clean JSON data with direct source links for each email.
• Scalable: Designed to handle scraping from large volumes of content efficiently.

How to Use

Configure the actor with input parameters via JSON. The scraper will execute the search, extract emails matching your criteria, and return the results in a structured dataset.

Input Parameters

Provide input as a JSON object. Here are the available parameters:

Input Example:

{
  "keywords": ["fitness"],
  "country": "United States",
  "scrapeFrom": "All",
  "engine": "legacy",
  "maxEmails": 20
}

Output

The actor outputs an array of objects in JSON format. Each object contains the extracted lead data from a single YouTube source.

Output Example:

[
  {
    "keyword": "fitness",
    "title": "Paul de Gelder speaking promo",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPTsHPgSrGY",
    "description": "For bookings email bookings@pauldegelder.com.",
    "email": "bookings@pauldegelder.com",
    "email_domain": "pauldegelder.com",
    "country": "us",
    "scrape_from": "youtube.com"
  }
]

Output Fields:
* keyword: The search keyword used.
* title: The title of the video or channel.
* url: The direct URL to the source content.
* description: The text snippet where the email was found.
* email: The extracted business email address.
* email_domain: The domain of the extracted email.
* scrape_from: The type of YouTube content scraped.
* country: The country code for the search.