USE CASE:
Travel brands: the work behind platform detection
Here is how platform detection for travel brands actually gets done, what it costs each way, and where each way stops working. We are Mamba Labs, we build Apify actors, and Ecommerce Platform Profiler is the one that does this for travel brands.
What is actually going wrong
Travel brands skew platform detection, for a reason specific to them. Travel brands are seasonal twice over, by destination and by booking window, and platform detection has to work around it. Know this about travel brands before any platform detection: any single point measurement lands somewhere on that curve and gets read as a trend. Ecommerce Platform Profiler carries 1 ready made setup for platform detection on travel brands.
Traditional Search Tools
- Their own booking engine, for travel brands. Free to inspect, and which engine they run tells you the size of the operation.
- 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.