PhantomBuster

PhantomBuster logo, a cloud automation and scraping tool built from modular agents called Phantoms

PhantomBuster

PhantomBuster

A cloud automation and scraping tool built from modular agents called Phantoms that extract and enrich data across sites like LinkedIn, metered by execution time, slots, and credits.

What is

PhantomBuster

When a buying signal lives behind a LinkedIn search, a post, or an event page, PhantomBuster is how we go and get it. It is a cloud automation and scraping tool built from modular agents called Phantoms, and the whole thing runs in the cloud on your stored session cookies, no local code involved. You chain Phantoms into a flow: one scrapes a search or a post, the next visits the profiles, another enriches the contacts with emails, and outputs pass cleanly from one step to the next. Plans are metered by execution hours, phantom slots, and monthly credits. In a GTM stack it sits at the very top, as a data-capture and action layer that feeds your pipeline before anything else touches the rows. Scraped lists flow into Clay for deeper enrichment and routing, then out to your sending tools further downstream. At Nebor we reach for PhantomBuster when a client needs list or signal data that ordinary databases never hold, such as recent post engagers or event attendees. We capture it with a Phantom, push it into Clay to enrich, and feed the system we build. We run it with conservative limits on purpose. Cookie-based scraping carries real account risk, so we keep volumes safe and let Clay do the heavy lifting once the raw rows are in.

Integrations and the modern GTM stack

PhantomBuster automates collecting data from the open web, then hands what it finds to the rest of your stack:

LinkedIn and Sales Navigator

The most used automations by far: exporting searches, scraping profiles, sending connection requests. Be aware this works against LinkedIn rather than with its blessing, like every tool of this kind.

HubSpot

The richest CRM connection: push scraped leads in, enrich contacts, track job changes.

Salesforce and Pipedrive

Simpler one-way pushes of leads into the pipeline.

Zapier and Make

Official apps launch automations and route results anywhere.

MCP server

An official server lets an AI assistant launch and monitor automations and collect the results, no dashboard needed.

API and webhooks

Full control from code, with results delivered to your systems as they land.

Pro’s

A large library of Phantoms covers most scraping and automation jobs out of the box.

Chaining Phantoms lets you build multi-step capture and enrichment flows without code.

Built-in email and contact enrichment turns raw scraped profiles into usable lead data.

It captures signal data behind searches and posts that most enrichment tools cannot reach.

Cloud execution and integrations let it feed lists straight into Clay and sending platforms.

Cons

It runs on stored LinkedIn session cookies, so heavy use carries real account-restriction risk.

Execution hours, email credits, and AI credits all expire monthly with no rollover.

Campaigns hard-stop when execution hours run out until the next billing cycle.

There is a learning curve, and conservative safety limits are not on by default.

Pricing

Starter

$69/mo or about $56/mo billed annually

  • 20 execution hours per month

  • 5 phantom slots

  • 500 email credits

Pro

$159/mo or about $127/mo billed annually

  • 80 execution hours per month

  • 15 phantom slots

  • More email and AI credits

Team

$439/mo or about $351/mo billed annually

  • 300 execution hours per month

  • Unlimited simultaneous Phantoms

  • Team workspace and dedicated support

How it fits your stack

Alternatives

If PhantomBuster does not fit, Clay covers much enrichment and some scraping natively, and Apollo bundles a contact database with prospecting. For custom multi-step automation flows, n8n gives more control without the cookie risk.

If PhantomBuster does not fit, Clay covers much enrichment and some scraping natively, and Apollo bundles a contact database with prospecting. For custom multi-step automation flows, n8n gives more control without the cookie risk.

At a glance

Modular Phantoms for scraping and actions

LinkedIn search, profile, and post extraction

Built-in email and contact enrichment

Chain Phantoms into automation flows

Cloud-based, no local code needed

CRM and tool integrations

Metered by execution hours and slots

Feeds lists into Clay and senders

Read some of our client stories

Real builds for real clients: what we set up, and what it changed for their pipeline.

Real builds for real clients: what we set up, and what it changed for their pipeline.

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