A
- API (Application Programming Interface)
- A structured way for software to talk to software. Livescraper exposes a REST API so you can run scrapes from your own code instead of the dashboard. See our API docs →
- Application form
- The user-facing page where someone signs up. We collect email + password + (optionally) company; nothing else.
B
- B2B (Business-to-Business)
- Companies selling to other companies. Most Livescraper customers run B2B lead gen — pulling contact data on businesses, not consumers.
- Bounce / hard bounce
- An email that fails permanently — wrong address, dead domain. A "soft bounce" fails temporarily (mailbox full, server down). High bounce rates hurt sender reputation. Check before you send →
C
- CAPTCHA
- A test (typically image-based) to tell humans from bots. Most modern scraping involves either avoiding pages with CAPTCHAs or solving them via a third-party service. Livescraper handles both — invisibly.
- Catch-all email
- A domain configured to accept mail to any address (
anything@example.com). Sends won't bounce, but they often go nowhere. Catch-all detection is part of email validation. - CCPA
- California Consumer Privacy Act. US analogue to GDPR. Livescraper is CCPA-compliant — public business data only.
- CID (Customer ID)
- Google's internal identifier for a place. Looks like
1234567890123456789. Useful for re-fetching the same place reliably. Extract one from a URL → - Cold email
- Outbound email to someone who hasn't opted in. Legal in most jurisdictions if relevant + has a clear unsubscribe; deliverability requires careful list hygiene.
- Conversion rate
- The percentage of visitors who take a desired action — sign up, buy, click. The whole point of measuring lead gen.
- CSV (Comma-Separated Values)
- The simplest tabular file format. Every row is a line, every column separated by commas. Livescraper exports default to CSV; opens in Excel, Google Sheets, anywhere.
D
- Data extraction
- Pulling structured information out of unstructured pages. The job all six Livescraper tools do.
- Deduplication / dedup
- Removing duplicate rows from a dataset. Critical when you combine multiple sources. Free CSV dedup tool →
- Disposable email
- A throwaway address from services like Mailinator or 10MinuteMail. People use them to dodge real signups. Livescraper's validator filters them out.
- DPA (Data Processing Agreement)
- A legal contract required under GDPR for any vendor processing personal data on your behalf. We sign one with EU customers on request.
E
- Enrichment
- Adding fields to existing records. "Enrich a domain list" = "give me back emails, phones, socials for these domains". Email Scraper →
- E.164 format
- The international standard for phone numbers:
+[country][national number]. Always 15 digits or fewer. Check any number → - ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)
- Classic data pipeline pattern: pull data, clean it up, push it into your warehouse. Livescraper handles the Extract step.
F
- Featured snippet
- The "Position 0" answer box at the top of Google's results. Tracked by our SERP Scraper.
- Fingerprinting
- A technique sites use to identify a browser uniquely (canvas, fonts, plugin list). Defeating fingerprinting is part of why Livescraper takes care of all the scraping infra for you.
G
- GDPR
- EU regulation governing personal data. Public business data is generally fine to scrape; never scrape personal/protected categories. Livescraper is GDPR-aligned. Read more →
- Geocoding
- Converting an address into latitude/longitude coordinates. Reverse geocoding does the opposite. Maps Scraper does both.
H
- Headless browser
- A browser running without a visual interface — used by scrapers to render JavaScript-heavy pages. Livescraper uses headless browsers for harder targets, invisibly.
- HTTP / HTTPS
- The transport protocols of the web. HTTPS is encrypted; HTTP is not. Livescraper only fetches over HTTPS.
I
- Intent data
- Signals that suggest a buyer is researching your category — recent careers postings, tech-stack changes, expansion announcements. We surface several public intent signals.
- IP rotation
- Cycling through a pool of IP addresses to avoid rate limits. Livescraper does this for you — you never see an IP.
J
- JSON
- The default modern data interchange format. Every Livescraper API response is JSON; CSV is a flat-file rendering of it.
L
- Lead
- A potential customer. "Lead gen" = the process of finding and qualifying them. Most Livescraper customers use it for B2B lead gen.
- Local pack / 3-pack
- The map + 3 business listings Google shows for "near me" queries. Position 1 in the local pack is enormously valuable. Track yours →
M
- MX record
- The DNS record that tells the world which mail server accepts mail for a domain. No MX = no email = certain bounce. Part of every email validation pass.
N
- NAP (Name · Address · Phone)
- The three pieces of business identity that local SEO depends on. Inconsistent NAP across the web hurts rank. Maps Scraper helps you audit.
P
- PaaS / SaaS
- Platform-as-a-Service vs Software-as-a-Service. Livescraper is SaaS — usable from a browser, no install.
- Parsing
- Reading raw HTML and extracting structured fields. The hardest, most maintenance-heavy part of any scraper. We do all of it.
- Place ID
- Google's stable identifier for a place. Survives renames, address changes. Different from CID (older) and from the hex ID inside maps URLs.
- Proxy
- An intermediate server that requests pages on your behalf. Used to rotate IPs and avoid blocks. Livescraper handles all proxy infrastructure invisibly.
R
- Rate limit
- How many requests a server allows in a window. Most scraping pain comes from rate limits. We absorb them with our proxy + retry layer.
- REST API
- An HTTP-based API style using verbs (GET / POST) on URL resources. Our API is REST. Endpoints →
- Role account
- A shared inbox like
info@ or sales@. Lower deliverability than personal addresses; cold outreach should usually exclude.
S
- SERP (Search Engine Results Page)
- The page Google returns for a query. Tracking your SERP rank weekly is the foundation of local + organic SEO. SERP Scraper →
- SMTP probe
- Asking a mail server "do you accept mail for this address?" without actually sending. The most reliable single email validation check.
- SOC 2
- An audit framework for service providers. SOC 2 Type II = audited annually. We've held SOC 2 Type II since 2023. More →
T
- Terms of service (TOS)
- The contract you agree to when using a service. Scraping public data generally doesn't violate site TOS, but specific platforms vary. We only ever scrape what's publicly visible.
U
- UTM parameters
- URL tags (
?utm_source=…) that let analytics tools attribute visits. We support UTM tagging on every Livescraper outbound link.
V
- Validation
- Confirming a piece of data is well-formed and likely real (email syntax + MX + SMTP + catch-all checks). Email Validation →
W
- Webhook
- A URL on your server that Livescraper POSTs to when an event happens (task completed, schedule fired). Lets you wire scrapes directly into your stack. Webhook docs →
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