USE CASE:
Pet brands and the hard part of platform detection
This page is about platform detection for pet brands: the options you actually have, what each one costs, and which one we would pick. Mamba Labs writes Apify actors for work like this, and Ecommerce Platform Profiler is the one that reads pet brands.
The situation
Pet brands and platform detection: one at a time is fine, and a list of them is not. Pet brands have unusually loyal customers and unusually thin margins, and platform detection has to work around it. Worth knowing about pet brands, since platform detection inherits it: community size gets mistaken for revenue more here than in any other consumer category. We keep 1 preconfigured task for platform detection on pet brands, across 1 tool.
Traditional Search Tools
- Subscription page, for pet brands. Free, and recurring revenue is visible without asking anyone.
- 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.
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.
- Ecommerce Platform Profiler1 preconfigured task on this page's job.
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.