How to find TikTok KOLs by keyword (with verified emails)

The discovery problem most teams have

Finding the right TikTok creators for a brand collaboration usually looks like this: a marketer opens TikTok, types a hashtag, scrolls for an hour, screenshots a dozen handles, hand-copies them into a spreadsheet, then hunts for emails one profile at a time. Half the emails are wrong. The other half belong to creators who already worked with three competitors last month.

Influencer databases like Modash or Upfluence solve part of it — they cache profile data so search is fast — but they don't crawl live, so a creator who blew up last week isn't in the index yet, and the email field is whatever was scraped months ago.

How KOLens does it differently

One keyword, four steps, no subscription:

1. You type a product-category keyword on /search — e.g. phonecase, skincare routine, home gym setup.
2. KOLens fans the keyword out across TikTok in real time and pulls back up to 500 candidate creators in a single search.
3. For each creator, the engine clicks through the link in their TikTok bio (Linktree, Beacons, personal site, custom landing page) and extracts any email address it finds. This is the verified-email step that the database tools skip.
4. Results land in your dashboard ranked by engagement rate. Export to CSV / Excel, or pipe straight into your CRM via the Claude plugin.

How creators get ranked

The default ranking uses engagement rate (likes + comments + shares / views), not raw follower count. A creator with 80K followers and 12% ER typically outperforms a 2M-follower account at 1.5% ER for paid collaboration ROI. Both numbers ship in every result row, so you can re-sort by anything that fits your campaign — followers, average views, recent posting cadence, or view-to-follower ratio.

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What it costs

Pricing is pay-per-result: 1 credit per 10 results (so a 200-creator search costs 20 credits = ~$1). Credits never expire. See the live pricing page for the current credit-pack rates.

Best keywords to start with

• Product nouns — phonecase, dog leash, standing desk: high-intent buyers, high-conversion creators.
• Routine / how-to phrases — skincare routine, morning routine: creators who teach are creators who sell.
• Niche communities — web3 wallet, vegan baking: smaller pools, much higher ER.

Next step

New accounts come with 50 free credits — enough for two 200-creator searches with email extraction. Once you have a list you like, save it to a KOL list or set up a Discovery Plan to re-run the same search on a 24h schedule and stack a fresh creator cohort every day.