# YouTube Channel Email Scraper (`parseforge/youtube-channel-email-scraper`) Actor

Extract publicly visible business emails and contact info from any YouTube channel. Get channel name, handle, subscribers, video count, total views, country, joined date, social links, website links, avatar, description and emails extracted from the about page. Bulk export.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/youtube-channel-email-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media
- **Stats:** 10 total users, 4 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $19.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

![ParseForge Banner](https://github.com/ParseForge/apify-assets/blob/ad35ccc13ddd068b9d6cba33f323962e39aed5b2/banner.jpg?raw=true)

## 📧 YouTube Channel Email Scraper

> 🚀 **Export YouTube channel business emails and contact info in seconds.**

Extract publicly-visible business emails, social links, and channel metrics from any YouTube channel. Provide handles (`@MrBeast`), channel URLs, or channel IDs (`UCxxx`) and get structured data: emails extracted from descriptions, subscribers, video count, total views, country, joined date, banner, avatar, website links, social profiles, and keywords.

### 📋 What it does

- Scrapes the public "About" page for each channel
- Parses `ytInitialData` to extract structured metadata
- Regex-extracts emails from channel description and visible bio
- Resolves shortened redirect URLs (`youtube.com/redirect?q=...`) for social/website links
- Limits free users to 10 channels (paid users up to 1,000,000)

> ⚠️ **Note:** YouTube hides the business email behind a CAPTCHA-protected "View Email" button on the web UI. This scraper extracts emails that are publicly visible in the description/bio. It does NOT bypass CAPTCHA.

### 📊 Data fields

Each record includes: `aggregatorLinks`, `avatarUrl`, `businessEmail`, `channelHandle`, `channelId`, `channelName`, `channelUrl`, `country`, `description`, `emailSources`, `extractedEmails`, `joinedDate`, `keywords`, `lastUpdated`, `primaryEmail`, `socialLinks`, `subscribers`, `subscribersCount`, `totalViews`, `videoCount`, `websiteLinks`. All 21 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

### 🚀 How to use

1. [Create a free Apify account ($5 credit)](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp)
2. Paste channel handles or URLs
3. Run and download dataset as CSV / Excel / JSON / XML

*Disclaimer: This scraper extracts only publicly available data from YouTube. Use responsibly and comply with YouTube's Terms of Service.*

### 🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

For faster answers, join our [Discord](https://parseforge.co/discord). It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.

# Actor input Schema

## `channels` (type: `array`):

List of YouTube channel handles (e.g. @MrBeast), full channel URLs (https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeast) or channel IDs (UCX6OQ3DkcsbYNE6H8uQQuVA).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

How many channels to collect per run.

## `deepSearch` (type: `boolean`):

Run all fallback discovery routes: top videos descriptions, website crawl (home/contact/about/press), Linktree/Beacons resolver, Twitter bio via Nitter, WHOIS lookup, and CommonCrawl historical snapshots. Disable to make runs faster but less complete.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "channels": [
    "@MrBeast",
    "@Veritasium",
    "@TED"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "deepSearch": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "channels": [
        "@MrBeast",
        "@Veritasium",
        "@TED"
    ],
    "maxItems": 10,
    "deepSearch": true
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/youtube-channel-email-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "channels": [
        "@MrBeast",
        "@Veritasium",
        "@TED",
    ],
    "maxItems": 10,
    "deepSearch": True,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/youtube-channel-email-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "channels": [
    "@MrBeast",
    "@Veritasium",
    "@TED"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "deepSearch": true
}' |
apify call parseforge/youtube-channel-email-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/youtube-channel-email-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/0crqEtlaq3LvXf64U/builds/KcDK4NmjDf5730JK0/openapi.json