Phantombuster

The Phantombuster modules allow you to watch, create, update, list, and retrieve the phantoms in your Phantombuster account.

Getting Started with Phantombuster

Prerequisites

  • A Phantombuster account

In order to use Phantombuster with Integromat, it is necessary to have a Phantombuster account. If you do not have one, you can create a Phantombuster account at phantombuster.com/signup.

The module dialog fields that are displayed in bold (in the Integromat scenario, not in this documentation article) are mandatory!

Connecting Phantombuster to Integromat

To connect your Phantombuster account to Integromat you need to obtain the API Key from your Phantombuster account and insert it in the Create a connection dialog in the Integromat module.

1. Login to your Phantombuster account.

2. Click Your Profile Icon > Org Settings > Add a Third Party Key.

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3. Copy the API Key to your clipboard.

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4. Go to Integromat and open the Phantombuster module's Create a connection dialog.

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5. In the Connection name field, enter a name for the connection.

6. In the API Key field, enter the API key copied in step 3 and click Continue.

The connection has been established.

Triggers

Watch an Output

Triggers when a Phantom finishes with its recent output.

Connection Establish a connection to your Phantombbuster account.
Phantom ID Select the Phantom ID whose output data you want to watch.

Actions

Get a Phantom

Gets metadata of a specified Phantom.

Connection Establish a connection to your Phantombbuster account.
Phantom ID Select the Phantom ID whose details you want to retrieve.

Get an Output

Gets the output of the most recent container of a specified Phantom.

Connection Establish a connection to your Phantombbuster account.
Phantom ID Select the Phantom ID whose output data you want to retrieve.

Launch a Phantom

Launches a specified phantom.

Connection Establish a connection to your Phantombbuster account.
Phantom ID Select the Phantom ID which you want to launch. When you select the phantom, the field auto-populates the related fields of the phantom which you need to fill to launch the phantom.
Save Argument Select whether you want to save the argument:
  • Yes
  • No
  • Not defined
Manual Launch Select whether you launch the phantom manually:
  • Yes
  • No
  • Not defined

Download a Result

Downloads a JSON result object associated with a container.

Connection Establish a connection to your Phantombbuster account.
Get a Result of Container Select the option to get the result of the container:
  • By entering manually
  • By selecting from the list
Phantom ID Select the Phantom ID whose results you want to download.
Container ID Select the Container ID to which you want to download the result.

Searches

List Phantoms

Retrieves a list of all Phantoms.

Connection Establish a connection to your Phantombbuster account.
Limit Set the maximum number of phantoms Integromat should return during one scenario execution cycle.

Make an API Call

Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

Connection Establish a connection to your Phantombuster account.
URL

Enter a path relative to https://api.phantombuster.com/. For example: api/v2/agents/fetch-all

For the list of available endpoints, refer to the Phantombuster API Documentation.
Method

Select the HTTP method you want to use:

GET
to retrieve information for an entry.

POST
to create a new entry.

PUT
to update/replace an existing entry.

PATCH
to make a partial entry update.

DELETE
to delete an entry.

Headers Enter the desired request headers. You don't have to add authorization headers; we already did that for you.
Query String Enter the request query string.
Body Enter the body content for your API call.

Example of Use - List Phantoms

The following API call returns all the phantoms from your Phantombuster account:

URL:
api/v2/agents/fetch-all

Method:
GET

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Matches of the search can be found in the module's Output under Bundle > Body
In our example, 1 phantom is returned:

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