USE CASE:
US companies and platform detection
What follows is the honest set of ways to get platform detection on US companies, including the ones that are not ours. Mamba Labs builds Apify actors, and Ecommerce Platform Profiler is the one named below that covers US companies.
Where this starts
US companies and platform detection: one at a time is fine, and a list of them is not. US companies file, publish and advertise under local rules that no global dataset models properly, and platform detection inherits that. One thing platform detection on US companies rarely accounts for: coverage from any vendor drops off a cliff outside the English speaking market. If you would rather try it than read about it, Ecommerce Platform Profiler does platform detection for US companies today.
Why anyone bothers
If you sell to US companies, the platform decides what integrates, what the merchant can change without a developer, and what they already pay.
How we would run it
- Start with one of US companies you already know, so a wrong platform detection answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Ecommerce Platform Profiler across your list of US companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for platform detection.
- Read ten rows of platform detection on US companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- The national company register, for US 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.