PhantomBuster Features

I was skeptical at first, but Phantombuster truly delivers as advertised. Ready-made recipes, categorized by which platform you'd like to extract data from (e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter, website ... even Craigslist!) make getting started a breeze. If you need to source information or enrich data, this should be the first software tool you try out. Also, the pricing is fantastic -- definitely the greatest value-to-cost ratio I've ever seen.

Honestly, nothing. I'm blown away by how effective it is.

As a whole, the idea is great - built on top of PhantomBuster APIs to make a complex, custom automation involving LinkedIn, Twitter and Email Scraping.

Documentation is terrible - they’re providing APIs so if you want to launch your Phantoms programmatically you require some level of documentation, but it doesn’t exist. You talk to support and half of them don’t even know what you’re talking about and have to put you through to other developers to actually understand what I’m saying. If you’re selling a technical product, it makes sense to hire technical support staff. I’ve spent $1000 per month, for the past 3 months on PhantomBuster and receive very slow support, I hadn’t received a response in over 20 days from my last request and it’s just not acceptable.

It's so broad, and so well implemented to be able to create workflow that enrich your growth. You can create APIs from any kind of information available online.

It only lacks having an own database and visualization for all the data you gathered and created. Also, maybe data merging functionalities

- The fact that gathers public data from popualr social media profiles, something I'd have to do manually to be able to prospect leads; - The integrations with tools like Lemlist; - The free trial was very effective in feeling the value of the tool; - The fact they have an GDPR compliant email discovey built-in tool; - The blog is great starter for someone who wants to learn how to automate parts of prospecting;

- The fact that the hours of usage don't accumulate from one day to the next if you don't use and the fact that the unused hours don't roll out from one month to the next;

PhantomBuster is your easy-to-use tool for standard extraction duty. Do you need scraping data from your standard Google Maps, LinkedIn/Sales Navigator, Yellow Pages, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter/X, Youtube and so on? Here you go! And besides the standard csv file, you can even export your data into Hubspot or Slack.

While the standard apps and websites are covered, other less-standard, unique sources will require a more ubiquitous (and most likely less user-friendly) tool. As with almost any preset-based no-code tool out there, PhantomBuster shows its limitations as soon as you get out of the beaten paths. Also, no data enrichment is provided, you haveto rely on external credits.

As a Lead Generation Specialist, a lot of time is spent researching where to find the leads. If they were easy to get, they wouldn't be leads because everyone and their mother would be contacting them. I call this process "Nancy-Drewing" and it's the best part of my job when I come across that one website with a goldmine of information. That excitement only lasted so long because I knew my next step...

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As somewhat of a techie, I actually preferred the interface of v1. A couple of months ago they rolled out v2, and while very clean and user-friendly, I miss "watching" the automation take place in the lines of code flashing across the screen. WOW - This probably goes in what I like most but haven't had a chance to use it yet - I was going to say that I wish they used Hunter as their email location partner but when I went to check which product they were using (Dropcontact) I saw they've added Hunter!!!

As a no code tool, I can say that API integrations and deployment steps are very basic. With an integration I established between LinkedIn and Google Sheet, we transferred the Linkedin Profiles of the former members of the NGO I was working with directly to Google Sheet. While doing this, the fact that all the steps are explained in the developer document and can be applied 1-1 in the same way made my work very easy.

I think it should increase the number of tools that can be integrated. My favorite thing about Airtable, a no-code tool, is that it allows for a lot of integration. The PhantomBuster tool can increase integration scenarios by taking the Airtable business as an example.

J'utilise Phantombuster (parmi d'autres outils du même type) depuis leur création, principalement sur de l'extraction de données Linkedin / Sales Nav. Rien à dire, cela fait amplement le travail. La prise en main est rapide, surtout avec toute la documentation que vous pouvez trouver sur leur blog ou en ligne. N'oubliez pas d'installer leur extension pour faciliter le set up d'un phantom (ex: aller chercher le li_at automatiquement sur Linkedin).

Le prix est beaucoup trop cher si vous souhaitez en faire un usage intensif. Cela vous oblique à acheter d'autres produits similaires à moindre coût pour combler vos besoins de running time / slots.

The API marketplace: all you need for your marketing stuff The support team which is fast to answer

Creating your own APIs is a bit messy, you have to run tests a lot and it consumes the minutes (used as credits) available for your account.

I like the fact that Phantombuster helped me automate a number of silly actions that I needed to execute on a daily basis

I dislike the fact that it still lacks some of the functionality that some alternative toosls offer, such as msg cadences, for example

I like the PhantomBuster is very easy to use and it is possible to tailor it you your needs quickly.

Sometimes there are minor UI bugs like disappearing the scrollbar nd you need to refresh a page, but it's not often and not a huge problem.

tons of automated features like autofollows, likes or comments for instagram, linkedin data scrapping or facebook group extractor easy to set up and use

pricing is quite high. You pay per hours of usage. If you want one to start with more than one tool and 1h of usage you need to pay 30$

I use it for extracting data from LinkedIn Sales Navigator. It extracts the data within minutes in the form of an Excel file. It saves all the hassle of copy-pasting data from Sales Navigator to Excel. There are many ways to convert your data from one form to another as needed. You can set up an automatic Phantom.

There is nothing to answer here. The tool is soo great. I love it. I have also used other tools but nothing is compared to this one.

There are several recipes or "phantoms" ready to be used, phantoms set up is intuitive. You can extract data from Linkedin or Facebook or Twitter, TikTok, etc in few minutes.

No complaints, Phantombuster does the job done, the price is acceptable for what they offer

The pricing is too low, integration is easier

The phantoms required for each functionality

Extremely user friendly and intuitive tool, with a ton of options for scraping data from major platforms like google and linkedin which greatly help my team generate leads for marketing and sales campaigns. On top of that, the tool itself is extremely affordable, especially considering how much time it saves me.

If I could change one thing, it would be to have the product offer weekly use instead of daily use - which would allow me to do all of my leadgen on one day, rather than patching together a bunch of different lists over the course of a week.

I noticed that the software is so powerful in data extraction sense. the results are accurate most times.

the software focus a lot on the social media platforms.

Easy to use Any filtering from Linkedin can be used Integration to zapier

Number of e-mails extractable for all plans Export format of the lists

It's a wonderful tool for web scraping or social media automation. (It's a library of API) The team still develop the platform without any break.

Sometimes it can be hard to set up the automation. For social medias functions, you have to limit yourself with the usage to avoid to get ban.

Phantombuster helps me with so many tasks that I would otherwise be unable to do (unless I learned python). Their LinkedIn APIs are amazing, and they keep coming out with great APIs for other platforms that empower marketers.

Nothing really - keep pumping out great APIs!

I love the ability to automate mind numbing tasks and reach out to a large audience. I automated reach outs to set up meetings, which would have taken forever but using PB I was able to have it run while I was at work, which allowed me to "work" on my startup and still get good stuff done at work.

I wish there were more options around timing (or they were more obvious). I often ran it once an hour but would forgot to turn it off at the end of the day and run out of all my CPU time at like 3 am.

Phantombuster is super flexible web automation infrastructure. The Auto-schedule feature is rely powerful. Support is super reactive and helpful.

Tool is easy to master. The tech doc could be improved for example provide example of evaluate function without Jquery selector. Would also be useful to have documentation about prebuild packages like linkedin login function & web search package.

You can automate most tasks using Phantombuster. Whether it's LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter or Facebook - Phantombuster allows you to save a huge amount of time thanks to automation. I really like the fact that it's NOT a chrome extension. Usually, those extensions are really killing the RAM of a computer. With Phantombuster you can simply set up everything and close it. It will work on its own, almost like magic.

The user interface was a bit rough at first but they're continuously improving it with cool tutorials to help out.

Automation at its finest ! all the tools that this software has works great . We use it a lot for linkedin lead generation using sales navigator and it delivers all the data we need to contact and close the deal

Would love to have a direct connection to google sheets than downloading each csv individually . As well would love the UI to connect differents automations be easier to understand and use