Find Influencers by Keyword or Niche
find_influencersSearch TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitch, Threads, and podcasts for creators by keyword or curated niche, then filter by follower range to get handles, profile URLs, and follower counts.
Instructions
Searches TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitch, Threads, and podcasts for creators matching your keywords or one of eight curated niche keyword sets, then filters them to a follower range. Returns one flat row per creator per platform with handle, profile URL, display name, follower count, the search that found them, a stable creator_id, and similar creators from the same keyword cluster. Discovery only: it does not read bios, emails, or link in bio pages, which is what Influencer Profile Scraper and Link in Bio Scraper and Newsletter Detector do. Every row carries row_status and error_reason, so an absence is readable rather than silent. Charges $0.001 per run plus $0.007 per creator returned; a search that returns nothing charges the run start only. Requires an APIFY_TOKEN and consumes Apify credits. Read only.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| niche | No | Loads a curated set of search keywords for the niche (about 60 per niche, measured in the September 2026 pre-research). `max_keywords_per_niche` caps how many are used. Leave as custom to search only your keywords. Default: "custom". | |
| us_only | No | Launch scope is US creators. Discovery carries no country signal, so country_guess is null on every row of this actor and this field changes nothing here. It is accepted so the same input runs unchanged on the Influencer Lead List Builder, where it acts at the profile stage. Default: true. | |
| keywords | No | Search phrases, one per line, for example "budget travel" or "meal prep coach". Each keyword is searched on each platform. Use `niche` instead to load a curated keyword set. | |
| platforms | No | Which platforms to search, and which platforms a bare @handle is looked up on. A full profile URL carries its own platform and ignores this. Supported: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitch, Threads, and podcasts. Not X, not Facebook pages, not LinkedIn. | |
| batch_size | No | Rows fetched at once. Leave empty for the measured per platform default; the measurement is in the README. Higher is faster and, above the measured point, loses rows. | |
| follower_max | No | Drop creators whose follower count is known and above this. Default: 500000. | |
| follower_min | No | Drop creators whose follower count is known and below this. A creator whose count the search did not show is kept, so a later profile read can fill it. Default: 5000. | |
| max_creators | No | Hard cap on rows returned, so a broad niche cannot run away. Default: 200. | |
| max_keywords_per_niche | No | How many keywords from the niche set to search. 1 to 60. Default: 10. | |
| max_creators_per_keyword | No | Cap per search. Search engines honor the site: filter for the first page or two only, so 20 to 30 per keyword with more keywords beats deep paging. Default: 20. |