A basic YouTube channel finder returns channels that match a name or topic. That is useful for lookup. It is not enough for creator outreach.
If you are building a sponsor list, recruiting educators, or selling a service to creators, the real question is narrower:
Which channels match my niche, still publish, reach enough viewers, and expose a public route for business contact?
This tutorial builds that workflow in Python. It starts without a seed list, discovers candidates from a niche, qualifies recent public performance, and returns one structured Dataset row per channel.
The result we want
