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Field notes on scraping,
quietly useful.

Practical guides, walkthroughs and small workflow ideas — from the team and the people running scrapes every day.

Guide · 8 min read

How to build a B2B lead list from Google Maps without writing code

A practical, copy-and-paste workflow for marketers — fields to pick, filters to set, and how to keep your list deliverable.
Walkthrough · 6 min read

Tracking SERP rank on 50+ queries every week — a low-effort workflow

The exact setup we recommend for local SEO teams: queries, regions, devices, alerts — and what to do with the data after.
Strategy · 5 min read

Reading reviews at scale — turning sentiment into a roadmap

From spreadsheet to product decisions: how to cluster, score and route reviews so the loudest signal becomes the next ticket.
Guide · 10 min read

Scraping all Google reviews in 2025 — past the 5-review limit

Why the Maps UI hides most reviews, what's actually accessible, and how Livescraper exposes the full set.
Strategy · 7 min read

How local SEO and data scraping work together to drive growth

The case for combining rank-tracking, review monitoring and listing audits as one weekly workflow.
Tutorial · 6 min read

Extract restaurants data from Google Maps in five minutes

A fast walkthrough of the Maps Scraper for hospitality, food-tech and field marketing teams.
Strategy · 5 min read

Why pay-per-row beats subscription pricing for scraping

The math behind transparent, on-demand pricing — and why it works better for spiky workloads.
Guide · 9 min read

Tracking closed businesses on Google Maps — and why it matters

How to detect status changes early and what teams in real estate, franchising and field sales do with the signal.
Walkthrough · 7 min read

Extracting hotel data from Google Maps for revenue management

A walkthrough for hospitality teams: what to scrape, how to refresh it, and how to feed it into your pricing model.

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Field notes on
scraping & lead gen.

Guide

How to scrape Google Maps without code

Step-by-step: pull every restaurant, dental clinic or business in any city from Google Maps — without writing a line of code. Free 500 rows monthly.

Sofia Lindqvist · 02 May 2026 · 6 min
Comparison

Google Maps API vs scraping — which to use in 2026

Honest comparison: when to use Google's official Places API vs a no-code scraper. Pricing, freshness, review caps, setup time — all in one table.

Marcus Tan · 28 Apr 2026 · 5 min
Local SEO

Build a local SEO weekly report in 60 seconds

Free template + step-by-step setup for a fully-automated weekly local-SEO report — SERP rank, reviews, local pack — across all your client locations.

Naomi Okafor · 22 Apr 2026 · 7 min
Lead gen

How to extract emails from a list of websites

Drop a CSV of domains into Livescraper Email Scraper, get back deliverable emails + phones + socials. With validation built in. Ethical + GDPR-aligned.

Vinod Kalathiya · 15 Apr 2026 · 5 min
Reputation

How to monitor Google reviews across 100+ locations

Multi-location operators: catch every new Google review within 90 minutes, route negatives to support, build a recovery loop. Step-by-step + Slack template.

Priya Iyer · 08 Apr 2026 · 6 min
Sales

Lead gen playbook for early-stage SaaS startups

If you're a 1-3 person SaaS team without an SDR budget, here's the build-it-yourself outbound playbook. Tools: Livescraper + Gmail + a Sheet. Total cost: ~$30/mo.

James O'Connor · 02 Apr 2026 · 6 min
Pricing

How much does web scraping actually cost in 2026?

Per-row, per-month, per-engineer: the real cost of scraping vs buying APIs vs building yourself. Updated 2026 with current Apify, ScraperAPI, Bright Data prices.

Sofia Lindqvist · 28 Mar 2026 · 5 min
Use case

How to pull every restaurant in a city

Common scraping use case: pull every restaurant in your target city by Google Maps, score them by category density, identify white space.

Tomás Vega · 22 Mar 2026 · 4 min
SEO

Track SERP rank on 50 queries weekly

Stop checking Google manually. Set up a weekly SERP scrape across 50 queries × 4 cities × 2 devices and email yourself a weekly Loom-style report.

Daniel Cho · 15 Mar 2026 · 4 min
Legal

Is web scraping legal in 2026?

We get asked this weekly. The honest answer with citations: yes for public data, no for personal/protected data, unclear for some grey areas. Updated 2026.

Anita Sharma · 08 Mar 2026 · 7 min
Tooling

CSV cleaning for cold outreach — the 5-minute checklist

Before you import a 1,000-row lead list to your sequencer, run this 5-step cleanup. Removes the 30-40% that would have bounced or marked you spam.

Maya Liu · 01 Mar 2026 · 4 min
Strategy

Pay-as-you-go vs annual data contracts — what changes at scale?

When does an annual ZoomInfo or Apollo contract make sense vs pay-per-row scraping? The break-even depends on team size, freshness needs, and integration depth.

Sofia Lindqvist · 22 Feb 2026 · 5 min