PhantomBuster, worked by an AI employee
Not another app for your team to learn, and not a set of rules for you to build. You hire an AI employee, you give it access to your PhantomBuster account, and you ask it for things in Slack or Teams the way you would ask anyone else on the team. There is nothing to map and nothing to maintain.
- AI Web Scraping
- Connects with a key
- 19 ready-made tools
- Asked in Slack or Teams
An illustration of how the conversation reads, not a transcript from a client account.
What PhantomBuster is
PhantomBuster is a cloud-based data extraction and automation platform that enables users to automate actions on the web, such as scraping data, generating leads, and automating social media tasks.
You paste in a key from your own PhantomBuster account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside PhantomBuster whenever you like.
One message in, the work done in PhantomBuster.
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You ask
You message your AI employee in the chat your team already has open, in one sentence, in your own words.
- 02
It works out the step
It decides what the job needs in PhantomBuster. You do not pick anything from a menu or wire anything together.
- 03
It does the work
Signed in to your own PhantomBuster account, inside the access you granted it, doing the thing you asked for.
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It reports back
It tells you what it did, in the same thread. If it could not do something, it says so rather than guessing.
What it can do in PhantomBuster
These are the ready-made tools your AI employee already has in PhantomBuster. It is not limited to them, but it never has to be taught these.
- Create BranchTool to create a new branch. use when you need to isolate updates by creating a separate branch. use after authenticating with your phantombuster api key and optionally specifying
- Delete BranchTool to delete a branch by id. use when you need to remove obsolete or incorrect script branches; ensure the branch exists before calling.
- Export Agent Usage CSVTool to export agent usage csv for current organization. use when you need a downloadable report of all agents' run statistics in csv format.
- Export Container Usage CSVTool to export container usage csv for current organization. use when you need a downloadable csv report of container execution history up to 6 months; url expires in 30 days.
- Get Agent GroupsTool to get agent groups and order for the current organization. use when you need to review how agents are grouped and ordered.
- Get All AgentsTool to fetch all agents associated with the current user or organization. use after validating your phantombuster api key to list available agents.
- Get All BranchesTool to fetch all branches associated with the current organization. use when you need to enumerate every branch across your scripts.
- Get All ScriptsTool to fetch all scripts for the current user. use after authenticating your phantombuster api key to list scripts without their code bodies.
- Get Branches DiffTool to get the length difference between the staging and release branch of all scripts. use when assessing branch changes before deployment.
- Get Containers Fetch AllTool to get all containers associated with a specified agent. use when you need to retrieve every container for a given agent, for monitoring or reporting.
- Get Deleted AgentsTool to get deleted agents for the current user or organization. use when you need to audit recently removed agents.
- Get IP LocationTool to retrieve the country of a given or environment ip address. use when you need to geolocate an ip endpoint. example: get location ip(ip="8.8.8.8")
- Get Org Running ContainersTool to get the current organization's running containers. use after listing agents to identify active containers across the organization.
- Get Org Storage Lists Fetch AllTool to fetch all storage lists for the authenticated organization. use when you need to enumerate every storage list available (beta).
- Get OrganizationTool to fetch current organization details. use when you need to retrieve the organization associated with the provided api key.
- Get Organization ResourcesTool to get current organization's resources and usage. use when you need to monitor quotas.
- Request AI CompletionTool to request a text completion from the ai module. use when you need to generate text based on a prompt.
- Solve hCaptchaTool to solve an hcaptcha challenge. use when you need a valid hcaptcha token for form submissions or automation flows.
- Unschedule All Agent LaunchesTool to unschedule all scheduled launches for agents. use when you need to disable every automated agent run organization-wide after verifying your api key.
You stay the boss of your PhantomBuster account.
Nothing connects until you approve it. You grant access one app at a time, you can take it back the same way, and everything your AI employee does in there is written down where you can see it.
How we handle your data- It signs in to your own PhantomBuster account. You are not moving anything into ours.
- You grant access one app at a time, and you can take it back the same way.
- Everything it does in PhantomBuster is written down, with what it did and when.
- Anything you tell it to check with you first, it checks with you first.
It works in PhantomBuster and the rest of your software in the same job
A real job rarely stays in one place. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in another and writing the result in a third is one request to your AI employee, not three.
Questions people ask about PhantomBuster
- Can an AI employee really work inside PhantomBuster?
- Yes. It signs in to your own PhantomBuster account and works in it the way a new hire would, from the chat your team already has open. Nobody installs anything, and nobody learns a new screen.
- Do I have to move anything out of PhantomBuster?
- No. Nothing moves and nothing is replaced. Your records stay in PhantomBuster, your team carries on in the same screens they used yesterday, and your AI employee works alongside them in there.
- How does it get into my PhantomBuster account?
- You paste in a key from your own PhantomBuster account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside PhantomBuster whenever you like. You approve it before anything connects, and you can take the access back the same way you gave it.
- What can it actually do in PhantomBuster?
- It has 19 ready-made tools in PhantomBuster today, among them Create Branch, Delete Branch and Export Agent Usage CSV. The full list is on this page. It is not limited to those, but it never has to be taught them.
- Can it use PhantomBuster and the rest of my software in the same job?
- Yes, and that is usually the point. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in PhantomBuster and writing the result somewhere else is one request to your AI employee, not three separate ones you stitch together.
- Who decides what it is allowed to do in PhantomBuster?
- You do. You grant access one app at a time and can withdraw it at any time, anything you ask it to check with you first it checks with you first, and everything it does in PhantomBuster is written down with what it did and when.