phantombuster

What This Skill Does

The PhantomBuster skill for OpenClaw provides a powerful command-line interface to interact with your PhantomBuster automation workspace. It allows you to trigger complex cloud-based workflows directly from your agent environment. With this integration, you can list your existing phantoms, initiate new automation jobs, monitor real-time execution status, abort stuck tasks, and retrieve processed result files. This skill bridges the gap between your local terminal and PhantomBuster's cloud-based browser automation capabilities, effectively turning your OpenClaw agent into a control center for lead generation, social media scraping, and cross-platform automation tasks.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, ensure you have your PhantomBuster workspace API key ready. Run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/capt-marbles/phantombuster

Once installed, you must set the PHANTOMBUSTER_API_KEY environment variable. You can find your key within your workspace settings on the PhantomBuster platform. Add the export command to your shell configuration file (e.g., .bashrc or .zshrc) to ensure persistence across sessions.

Use Cases

This skill is designed for power users and growth hackers who need to automate repetitive manual tasks. Primary use cases include:

• Lead Generation: Automatically trigger LinkedIn Sales Navigator scrapers to build lead lists on a schedule.
• Market Research: Run automated Google Maps searches to extract competitor data or contact info for local businesses.
• Social Media Management: Regularly update your follower lists or track engagement metrics by triggering Instagram or Twitter scrapers.
• Data Pipelines: Stream results directly from the cloud into your local CSV files or data processing scripts using the fetch-result command.

Example Prompts

1. "List all my currently configured LinkedIn phantoms and tell me which ones are available to run."
2. "Launch the LinkedIn Profile Scraper using the argument: {'search': 'CTO', 'number': 50}."
3. "Check the status of agent 98765, and if it is finished, download the results to a file named leads.csv."

Tips & Limitations

• Rate Limits: Be mindful that every execution consumes your PhantomBuster plan's allotted daily minutes. Avoid running high-frequency loops that might exhaust your monthly budget.
• Data Privacy: When working with social media automation, ensure you comply with the platform's Terms of Service to avoid account restrictions.
• Formatting: Use the --json flag when querying large lists or complex outputs to make the data easier for other scripts to parse.
• Security: Keep your API key strictly confidential; never hardcode it into scripts that you plan to share publicly.