USE CASE:

Telling what software an online shop is built on

This page is about telling what software an online shop is built on: what your options are for platform detection, what each costs, and the one we would use. We are Mamba Labs, we build Apify actors, and Ecommerce Platform Profiler is ours for platform detection.

The problem

If you sell to ecommerce, the platform decides almost everything about the conversation. What integrates, what the merchant can change without a developer, what they are already paying. It is visible in the page source of every store, and reading page source for a thousand stores is not a plan.

Traditional Search Tools

  • 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.

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.