/apify-creator-emails

name: apify-creator-emails
description: Find creators and their published contact emails in one run. Routes "find YouTube channels about <niche> with emails", "get the email for these TikTok / Instagram handles", "build a micro-influencer outreach list", "creator email finder", "influencer contact list for a sponsorship campaign" and "alert me when new creators appear in <niche>" to a single Actor that discovers YouTube channels by keyword, optionally hops to the Instagram and TikTok profiles those channels link, enriches user-supplied TikTok and Instagram handles, crawls each creator's linked site for an email, MX-verifies it and scores every row 0-100 in one 51-column schema. No login, no API key. Use when the user asks to scrape creator or influencer emails, find YouTube creators by topic, enrich a list of TikTok or Instagram usernames with contact details, or set up a weekly new-creator watch. Does not search TikTok or Instagram by keyword or hashtag.
author: Zakariae (Flash Scrape) — routes to Actors built by the author; no affiliate or referral parameters
author_url: https://github.com/ZAKRIAZ
metadata:
  category: data-extraction
  keywords: "creator-emails, influencer-emails, youtube-creators, tiktok-creators, instagram-influencers, creator-outreach, influencer-marketing, micro-influencers, email-finder, verified-emails, sponsorship, brand-collabs, creator-leads, apify"

Creator emails across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram

Turn "I need creators in <niche> with a contact email" into one merged table by discovering channels on YouTube, hopping to the Instagram and TikTok profiles they link, enriching any handles the user already has, and returning one row per creator account with the email the creator actually published, its MX-verification grade, and a lead score, with the cost stated before the run.

Disclosure: the author of this skill owns the Actor it routes to (`flash_scraper/creator-leads-scraper`). It is a pay-per-result Actor on the Apify Store; no referral or tracking parameters are used anywhere in this skill. Where this Actor cannot do the job (TikTok or Instagram keyword search), the boundary below routes to other publishers' Actors.

Example prompts

Prompts this skill handles:

• "Find 50 YouTube channels about home espresso with 5k-100k subscribers and a contact email, for a sponsorship pitch."
• "Here are 40 TikTok usernames and 20 Instagram usernames from our campaign shortlist; get me whichever of them publish an email."
• "Build a cross-platform micro-influencer list for 'vegan meal prep': the YouTube channels plus the Instagram and TikTok accounts they link to."
• "Watch the keyword 'indie game devlog' weekly and message Slack when new channels appear."

Out of scope (the boundary):

• "Find TikTok accounts about skincare" or "Instagram creators using #cleanbeauty". This Actor **does not search TikTok or Instagram by keyword or hashtag**; it only enriches handles the user supplies (or hops to profiles linked from YouTube channels). For that discovery step route to `clockworks/tiktok-user-search-scraper` (TikTok user search) or `apify/instagram-hashtag-scraper` (Instagram posts by hashtag), collect the usernames, and come back here for the email pass.
• The email behind YouTube's "View email address" button. That needs a Google login and a CAPTCHA; the Actor stays keyless and reads only the About text, the channel's published links and the linked website.
• Engagement rate on TikTok or YouTube rows (TikTok's public payload carries no play counts; YouTube's About page has no per-video stats). Instagram rows do carry engagement over ~12 recent posts. For per-video vetting use the [influencer-vetting workflow in apify/agent-skills](https://github.com/apify/agent-skills/blob/main/skills/apify-ultimate-scraper/references/workflows/influencer-vetting.md).

Prerequisites

• Apify account ([sign up](https://apify.com))
• Authentication via one of:
• `apify login` (OAuth, if using the Apify CLI)
• `APIFY_TOKEN` environment variable
• Token from [Apify Console → Settings → Integrations](https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations)

Never paste a token into a URL or into a file inside this skill; pass it as `Authorization: Bearer` (the CLI does this for you). If the user wants AI-written openers (`writeOpeners`), their own OpenAI or Anthropic key goes in the `llmApiKey` input field, never in a URL or a committed file.

Workflow

Copy this checklist and track progress:

Task Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Get the four anchors (what do you have, which platforms, follower band, how many)
- [ ] Step 2: Route: keyword discovery vs handle enrichment
- [ ] Step 3: Build the input and state the cost
- [ ] Step 4: Run and wait
- [ ] Step 5: Deliver: rows, email fill per platform, what was not found

Step 1: Get the four anchors

Ask these as one block; do not start a run without them.

1. **What do you have** — a niche keyword (YouTube discovery), a list of handles (TikTok / Instagram / YouTube enrichment), or both. 2. **Which platforms** — any of `youtube`, `tiktok`, `instagram`. A platform left out of `platforms` is skipped even if its handle list is filled. 3. **Follower band** — `minFollowers` / `maxFollowers` (0 = no bound). Nano/micro tiers are the usual ask; on YouTube the count is the subscriber count, which YouTube rounds. 4. **How many** — `maxCreators` counts creators **delivered** after filters, not scraped. Default 10 for a first run; the ceiling is 300; ask before going above 100.

Optional follow-ups, only if the user raises them: verified accounts only, business accounts only, only personal inboxes (`emailDomains: ["@gmail.com"]`), a weekly watch, a Slack/Discord webhook.

Step 2: Route

| User need | Actor ID | Tier | Best for | |-----------|----------|------|----------| | Discover creators in a niche | `flash_scraper/creator-leads-scraper` with `searchKeywords` | community | YouTube keyword search, about 30 unique channels per