Launch and monitor PhantomBuster Phantoms (agents), read the containers and result data they produce, and check organization resource headroom.
PhantomBuster ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 14 actions, 3 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.
io.w6w.phantombusterPhantomBuster runs “Phantoms” — pre-built or custom browser-automation agents that scrape and act on sites like LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and Instagram — and gives a workflow the same three-beat path most PhantomBuster automations need: launch an agent, poll the container it creates, and read the output or result object that container produces.
Beyond launching and monitoring agents, this app covers container introspection (list, fetch, output, result object), account-level visibility (organization profile and daily/monthly resource headroom), and a live view of every container currently running across the organization. Health checks track PhantomBuster’s own status page alongside real, readable quota — daily and monthly execution time, mail credits, captcha credits, discovered-mail credits, AI credits and SERP credits — and the app deliberately narrows what an organization or agent read hands back, because PhantomBuster’s own API returns several live credentials inside otherwise ordinary reads.
Three routes to the same 14 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from PhantomBuster's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.
agent-fetch-output Get the console output, status, progress and messages of an agent's most recent container.
container-result-object Get the result object a container's agent set via buster.setResultObject().
org-resources-get Get the current organization's daily/monthly execution time, mail/captcha/discovered-mail/AI/SERP credits, S3 storage and plan ceilings.
org-running-containers-list List every container currently running across the organization.
A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the
connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the
workflow spec, carrying PhantomBuster's real ids.
{
"manifestVersion": "2",
"name": "phantombuster-example",
"steps": [
{
"id": "agent-fetch-output",
"uses": {
"app": "io.w6w.phantombuster",
"action": "agent-fetch-output",
"connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
},
"with": {
"id": "<id>"
}
}
]
}agent-fetch-output agent-fetch-deleted agent-get agent-launch agent-list +9 more actions available
Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An
app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the
address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account,
so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for PhantomBuster, then fill in
the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the
parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed
from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but
nothing in it is specific to PhantomBuster. The Workflow tab is where this app's
real ids are.
npm install @w6w/sdkyarn add @w6w/sdkpnpm add @w6w/sdkdeno add npm:@w6w/sdkimport { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";
// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();
const envelope = await client.run({
urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
action: "agent-fetch-output",
payload: {
id: "<value>",
// fromOutputPos: "<value>",
// prevContainerId: "<value>",
// prevStatus: "<value>",
// prevRuntimeEventIndex: "<value>",
},
});
if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value); npm install -g @w6w/cli w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action agent-fetch-output --payload '{"id":"<value>"}' Give an AI agent PhantomBuster — without giving it PhantomBuster's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.
One tool call{
"name": "w6w_invoke",
"arguments": {
"ref": "app:io.w6w.phantombuster#agent-fetch-output",
"input": {
"id": "<id>"
}
}
}
Every tool names its target with a single ref. The
app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the
host resolves which of the caller's PhantomBuster connections to sign
with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.
The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.
Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.
Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.
PhantomBuster's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.
The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. PhantomBuster itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).
PhantomBuster declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.
Component status from status.phantombuster.com: Phantoms (the agent-execution fleet), API, Phantom file delivery, Phantom email notifications, Content CDN, Image CDN and Developer documentation.
Daily and monthly execution time, mail/captcha/discovered-mail/AI/SERP credits, and S3 storage, read from GET /orgs/fetch-resources.