How to Set Up a FloppyData Proxy with PhantomBuster

Lead generation is among the most important yet thankless tasks when it comes to growing your business. It used to take humans ages to create incomplete (and error-prone) lead lists. Now, you can let a phantom do the job automatically and accurately with a little help from FloppyData!

Here’s how to pair PhantomBuster with our high-quality proxies and ensure your scraping success.

What is PhantomBuster?

PhantomBuster is a cloud-based automation tool focused on growth hacking. Many of its processes involve data scraping. However, you can also use PhantomBuster for outreach, automatically comment on or respond to social media posts and much more.

Key PhantomBuster Features

•  Extensive Automation Selection – PhantomBuster features more than a hundred “phantoms”, single actions uniquely designed to perform specific tasks on websites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, etc. It’s possible to link phantoms, creating even more powerful “flows.”
• Diverse and Intuitive Scraping Operations – phantoms make it easy to extract new lead lists or enrich existing ones with data you’re missing
• Cloud-based Operation – All PhantomBuster actions are accessed from and run in the cloud. You don’t need to install and be tied to local software and can even leave the online dashboard and do something else while PhantomBuster runs its automations.
• Straightforward Exporting – Export data in popular formats like JSON or CSV for seamless integration with other tools.

Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up FloppyData Proxies in PhantomBuster

Getting PhantomBuster to work with FloppyData is straightforward, but there are some details and optional steps to consider. Here’s what to do:

1. Go to PhantomBuster’s website and create an account. You can sign up for a 14-day free trial to get your feet wet and don’t even have to provide credit card info.
2. Once you’ve verified your email, go to the dashboard. Hover over your name for a list of workspace settings to appear. From there, click on the Proxies icon.
3. Click on + New proxy pool.
4. Give it a name.
5. In a new browser tab, go to theFloppyData website. Sign into your account or create a new one.
6. Select Create proxy pool from the dashboard
7. Select the type of proxy you want to use. Name the pool, choose its location, protocol, and session length. Once satisfied, click Create new proxy pool
8. Clicking on View proxies will take you to a list with required info for each proxy.
9. Back on PhantomBuster, paste in the information for a single proxy, like this, and click Add proxy.
10. Alternatively, you can add several proxies by clicking the Import button.
11. Go back to the View proxies screen on FloppyData and switch to the As connection strings tab.
12. Copy as many proxies as you’d like (up to a maximum of 1,000) to an existing or new pool and paste them into PhantomBuster’s blank CSV field.
13. Replace the colons separating the port, username, and password with commas. The strings should then look like this:
14. Click Import. You should now have as many new rows as the number of added proxies. The import is successful if all three fields are filled in. If not, you made a formatting mistake and will need to edit it.You are now good to go, and PhantomBuster will automatically rotate between the provided proxies. However, you might also want to set up a single-use HTTP proxy for a specific phantom.
15.  Create a new phantom or choose an existing one and click on Advanced settings.
16.  Go to the Proxies tab, select HTTP, and copy the info from your FloppyData proxy pool as before. Click on Save settings. You may need to create a new HTTP pool if you previously chose a different protocol.

Why Use FloppyData Proxies with PhantomBuster?

• Reduced blocking risk & enhanced anonymity – FloppyData’s vast residential proxy pool provides genuine user IPs, minimizing detection risk and enhancing data extraction success rates.
• High speeds and uptimes – A 99.99% uptime rate and consistent speeds mean scraping tasks through PhantomBuster finish quickly and without interruption.
•  Effective geo-location bypassing – FloppyData sources proxies from 195+ countries. Take advantage of this to get around location-specific blocks and appear even more trustworthy.
•  Effortless scaling – Rotate between hundreds of proxies or generate a separate proxy pool for each PhantomBuster project.
• Reduced data collection bias – Many sites display results based on previous searches or visits tied to the same IP. Using FloppyData proxies reduces the risk of receiving personalized or localized data.

Conclusion

PhantomBuster’s intuitive user dashboard extends to its proxy handling. Setting it up to take advantage of FloppyData proxies shouldn’t be difficult if you follow our guide. Once done, PhantomBuster will become an even more effective lead generation and data scraping tool that performs its task autonomously and smoothly while sidestepping IP bans and other pitfalls.