USE CASE:

Reading platform detection for fashion brands

Here is how platform detection for fashion brands actually gets done, what it costs each way, and where each way stops working. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so Ecommerce Platform Profiler is something you run yourself against your own list of fashion brands.

What is actually going wrong

Fashion brands and platform detection: one at a time is fine, and a list of them is not. Fashion brands run on seasons, so the same brand looks like two different companies six months apart, and platform detection has to work around it. On fashion brands, platform detection rarely catches this: a scan taken between seasons reads as a collapse when it is a calendar. If you would rather try it than read about it, Ecommerce Platform Profiler does platform detection for fashion brands today.

Traditional Search Tools

  • The brand's own lookbook and stockist page, for fashion brands. Free, and it names the retail relationships nothing else exposes.
  • Wappalyzer. A browser extension that answers this instantly and free for occasional use. It has an API and a list price when you want it in bulk.
  • BuiltWith. Deeper history and lists of sites by technology, which is the reverse lookup and often the more useful direction. Priced as a data product.
  • Store directories. The app stores of the major platforms publish merchant lists. A ready made list of confirmed users, for free.
  • View source. Open the site, view source, search for the platform's signature. Thirty seconds if you know the signatures, and they are all documented publicly.

Preconfigured tasks

A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.

Mamba Labs Apify Actors

These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.