Find a creator's email address
By Starcovery. Updated .
See whether Starcovery has a creator's email address, reveal it for 1 credit, and read it on the web, in a CSV export, or over the API.
To find a creator's email address in Starcovery, open the creator page and choose Reveal Contact under Contact. The first reveal of a profile costs your organization 1 credit, $0.05, and every later reveal of that profile is free.
Search results and creator pages show whether Starcovery has an address before you spend a credit. A reveal that finds no address charges nothing.
This page covers where the addresses come from, the steps on the web, the reveal over the API, what to do when Starcovery has no address, and what the steps cost.
Where the addresses come from
Starcovery holds each email address a creator posts in the display name, the biography, the profile link, or a caption, and each address on a public web page about the creator. Starcovery groups the Instagram and TikTok profiles it believes belong to one person, so the reveal of one profile can return an address that Starcovery found for the creator's other profile.
Until your organization reveals a profile, search results, the creator page, the API, MCP, and the CLI leave the address out, also where it appears in the biography, a caption, or the profile link.
Steps
Find the creator
Search from a brief on the web, or over MCP, REST, or the CLI. See Search. On /app, the Creators, Table, and Map views mark each profile with an address your organization has not revealed Email on file, signed in or signed out, each revealed profile Email revealed, and each profile without an address No email on file. The Table view shows the mark in its Contact column. A profile known only from another profile's link carries no mark, because the results hold only that link.
Each creator name opens the creator page.
Check the Contact card
The creator page has a Contact card. When Starcovery has an address, the card offers Reveal Contact when you are signed in and Sign In to Reveal when you are signed out. When Starcovery has no address, the card reads "Starcovery has no address for this creator." and offers no reveal.
Opening a creator page is free, signed in or signed out.
Reveal the address
A reveal needs an account and 1 prepaid credit. The daily grant of free searches does not cover it. Any member of your organization can reveal a contact, and owners and admins buy credits in Billing settings.
Choose Reveal Contact in the creator page header or in the Contact card. The Reveal contact dialog shows the price, "One credit. Free after the first time.", and your organization's credit balance. Choose Reveal Contact to confirm. The dialog then shows the address with a button that copies it.
Use the address
The Contact card keeps the address, and everyone in your organization sees it on the creator page. The creator page shows one address. When Starcovery holds more than one address for the profile, the CSV export and the API list them all.
To collect the addresses of many creators, select them on /app and choose Export CSV in the selection bar menu. The Contact column holds the addresses of each profile your organization revealed, "Email on file" for a profile whose address your organization has not revealed, and "No email on file" for a profile with no address. The Table shows those two words, and "Email revealed" where the CSV writes addresses.
When the reveal does not return an address
The reveal dialog ends with "Nothing was charged." in each of these cases:
- No contact on file: Starcovery has no address for the creator.
- Out of credits: the reveal needs a credit and the balance is empty. Buy Credits opens Billing settings.
- Sign in again: your session ended.
When a reveal does not finish, try again. Your organization pays for a profile once, so a retry never charges twice.
When Starcovery has no address
You can still hire the creator through Starcovery. Hire on the creator page starts a campaign with the creator, for a profile with 1,000 or more followers. When you choose Send Proposal, the Starcovery team sends the proposals. See Run a creator campaign without an agency.
Until a creator's proposal goes out, the creator's tile on the campaign page is marked Published email, Researched email, or No email on file. Published email means the creator published the address, and Researched email means Starcovery has only an address it found on a web page about the creator. The Send Proposal confirmation counts the creators with a published address and the creators with only a researched one.
To write to the creator yourself, open the profile on the platform from the handle under the creator's name.
Reveal over the API
An agent reveals one profile per call, with an access token or a Settings API key:
- REST:
POST /api/creators/{profileId}/contact - MCP:
reveal_contactwith theprofileIdfromsearch_creators - CLI:
starcovery contact reveal <profileId>
curl -X POST "https://www.starcovery.com/api/creators/<profileId>/contact" \
-H "x-api-key: <access_token>"The response holds emails, each address Starcovery holds for the profile, and bio, the creator's full biography. starcovery contact reveal prints the addresses, and --json prints the response. REST answers 404 not_found with reason no_contact when Starcovery has no address for the profile, 404 not_found with no reason when no profile has that id, and 402 out_of_credits when the prepaid balance is empty. None of them charges a credit.
GET /api/search, MCP search_creators, and starcovery search --json return hasContact for each creator: true when Starcovery has an address. After your organization reveals a profile, search results carry its addresses in emails.
Live example
skincare creators is a published search page: a ranked list of creators for the brief "skincare creators". Each creator name opens the creator page.
Signed out, the Contact card of @janethechemist shows Sign In to Reveal, so Starcovery has an address for that profile. The Contact card of @colette.laxton reads "Starcovery has no address for this creator."
Prices
A credit costs $0.05.
| Step | Price |
|---|---|
| Open a creator page, or see whether an address is on file | Free |
| Search within the daily grant | Free |
| Search past the daily grant | 1 credit |
| Contact reveal, the first time your organization reveals the profile | 1 credit |
| A later reveal of the same profile | Free |
| A reveal that finds no address | Free |
| Send Proposal | Free |
A reveal covers one profile. A creator's Instagram and TikTok profiles are two profiles, and the first reveal of each costs 1 credit.
Prepaid credit packs are on Pricing. See Pay for API calls without a subscription for the credit ledger.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find a creator's email address?
Open the creator page in Starcovery and choose Reveal Contact under Contact. The first reveal of a profile costs your organization 1 credit, $0.05.
How much does a creator's email address cost?
1 credit, $0.05, the first time your organization reveals the profile. Later reveals of that profile are free, and a reveal that finds no address charges nothing.
Can I see whether a creator has an email address before I pay?
Yes. Search results on /app mark each profile with an address your organization has not revealed Email on file, each revealed profile Email revealed, and each profile without an address No email on file, and the creator page offers a reveal only when Starcovery has an address. A profile known only from another profile's link carries no mark. Over the API, hasContact is true when Starcovery has an address.
Where does Starcovery find creator email addresses?
In the display name, the biography, the profile link, and the captions of the creator's public Instagram and TikTok profiles, and on public web pages about the creator.
What if a creator has no email address?
The creator page reads "Starcovery has no address for this creator." and nothing is charged. You can still start a campaign with Hire, and the Starcovery team sends the proposals. See When Starcovery has no address.
Can my team see the addresses I reveal?
Yes. Everyone in your organization sees a revealed address on the creator page and in the CSV export, and nobody in your organization pays for that profile again.
Can I export creator email addresses to a spreadsheet?
Yes. On /app, select creators and choose Export CSV. The Contact column holds the addresses of each profile your organization revealed, "Email on file" for a profile whose address your organization has not revealed, and "No email on file" for a profile with no address.
Can I get creator email addresses in bulk?
Each reveal covers one profile, on the web, over REST, over MCP, and with the CLI. An agent reveals a list of creators with one call per profile. See Reveal over the API.
Do I need a creator's email address to hire them?
No. Hire starts a campaign with the creator, and the Starcovery team sends the proposals when you choose Send Proposal. Send Proposal spends no credits.
Check whether a creator's audience and engagement are real
Read the views, engagement, posting activity, and audience countries on a Starcovery creator page, and compare them with followers and the benchmarks.
Pay creators and handle disclosure
Fund the creators who accept your proposal, pay the Starcovery invoice, and set the disclosure statement each creator reads before they post.