USE CASE:
Platform detection for UK companies
The job on this page is platform detection for UK companies, with the options first, ours included, and the recommendation at the end. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so Ecommerce Platform Profiler is something you run yourself against your own list of UK companies.
What is actually going wrong
UK companies distort platform detection, for a reason specific to them. UK companies file, publish and advertise under local rules that no global dataset models properly, and platform detection has to work around it. Worth knowing about UK companies, since platform detection inherits it: coverage from any vendor drops off a cliff outside the English speaking market. Ecommerce Platform Profiler carries 1 ready made setup for platform detection on UK companies.
Why anyone bothers
A headless build at one of the UK companies hides the platform completely, and headless correlates with the largest merchants.
Traditional Search Tools
- The national company register, for UK companies. Free, authoritative, and in its own language.
- 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.