# Website Tech Stack Detector (CMS, analytics, payments, hosting) (`buzzcompare/website-tech-stack`) Actor

Find out what any website is built with: CMS and e-commerce platform (WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix), JS framework, analytics and ad pixels, chat widget, payment providers, email marketing tool, CDN, hosting, server and email provider. 200+ signatures from the public homepage, headers and DNS.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/buzzcompare/website-tech-stack.md
- **Developed by:** [Buzz Compare](https://apify.com/buzzcompare) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 websites

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Website Technology Stack Detector (CMS, analytics, chat, payments, hosting)

Find out what any website is built with: CMS and e-commerce platform (WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix...), JS framework, analytics and ad pixels, chat widget, payment providers, email marketing tool, CDN/hosting, server and the company's email provider (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365...). 200+ signatures, read from the public homepage, headers and DNS. Bulk: thousands of domains per run. For sales prospecting, competitor research and lead qualification.

### What you can use it for

- Sales prospecting: every Shopify store using Klaviyo but no chat widget; WordPress sites without a CDN
- Competitor and market research: which platforms, analytics and payment providers a list of companies uses
- Lead qualification: enrich a CRM list with CMS, e-commerce platform, email provider and hosting
- Agencies: audit a client list for outdated or missing tooling

### Why this one

- 200+ signatures across CMS, e-commerce, frameworks, analytics/pixels, chat, payments, email marketing, widgets, CDN/hosting, server and the company's email provider (from DNS MX)
- Reads only the public homepage, its headers and DNS: fast, polite, honors robots.txt
- Each category is its own column, plus a combined technologies list and the external script hosts for your own rules
- Pay only for results: **$5 per 1,000 websites**. No subscription.

### Input

- **Websites** (`websites`): Domains or URLs, one per line.
- **Max sites** (`maxResults`) Default: `10000`.

### Output

One row per website in the dataset (JSON, CSV, Excel, or through the API). Sample:

```json
[
 {
  "input": "gymshark.com",
  "url": "https://gymshark.com/",
  "finalUrl": "https://us.checkout.gymshark.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "reachable": true,
  "title": null,
  "description": null,
  "generator": null,
  "language": null,
  "cms": [
   "Shopify"
  ],
  "ecommerce": "Shopify",
  "framework": [],
  "analytics": [
   "Google Analytics"
  ],
  "chat": [],
  "payments": [
   "Shop Pay"
  ],
  "email_marketing": [],
  "widgets": [
   "Google reCAPTCHA",
   "hCaptcha"
  ],
  "hosting": [
   "Cloudflare"
  ],
  "server": [],
  "emailProvider": null,
  "mxRecords": null,
  "externalScripts": [
   "cdn.shopify.com",
   "shop.app"
  ],
  "technologies": [
   "Cloudflare",
   "Google Analytics",
   "Google reCAPTCHA",
   "Shop Pay",
   "Shopify",
   "hCaptcha"
  ],
  "error": null
 },
 {
  "input": "apify.com",
  "url": "https://apify.com/",
  "finalUrl": "https://apify.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "reachable": true,
  "title": "Apify: Marketplace of ready-to-run tools for AI",
  "description": "Thousands of tools to automate your business. Get real-time web data, track competitors, generate leads, and integrate your apps and AI agents.",
  "generator": null,
  "language": "en",
  "cms": [
   "HubSpot CMS"
  ],
  "ecommerce": null,
  "framework": [
   "Bootstrap",
   "Next.js"
  ],
  "analytics": [
   "Google Ads",
   "Google Analytics",
   "Google Tag Manager",
   "LinkedIn Insight",
   "Microsoft Clarity",
   "Mixpanel",
   "Segment",
   "TikTok Pixel"
  ],
  "chat": [
   "HubSpot Chat",
   "Intercom"
  ],
  "payments": [],
  "email_marketing": [],
  "widgets": [
   "Algolia",
   "Google Fonts",
   "Google Optimize",
   "Imgix",
   "OneTrust",
   "Sentry",
   "Swiper",
   "Zapier"
  ],
  "hosting": [
   "AWS CloudFront"
  ],
  "server": [],
  "emailProvider": "Google Workspace",
  "mxRecords": [
   "aspmx.l.google.com",
   "alt1.aspmx.l.google.com",
   "alt2.aspmx.l.google.com",
   "aspmx2.googlemail.com",
   "aspmx3.googlemail.com"
  ],
  "externalScripts": [],
  "technologies": [
   "AWS CloudFront",
   "Algolia",
   "Bootstrap",
   "Google Ads",
   "Google Analytics",
   "Google Fonts",
   "Google Optimize",
   "Google Tag Manager"
  ],
  "error": null
 }
]
```

### Tips

- Detection is from the homepage HTML as served; single-page apps that render everything in JavaScript may show fewer technologies.
- emailProvider comes from MX records: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho, Proofpoint, Mimecast and others; 'Self-hosted/other' when none matched.

### Integrations and API

Run it on a schedule, trigger it from the API or a webhook, and send results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, Slack, a database or your own code with the platform's standard integrations.

### Data and fair use

This tool reads only public sources (official APIs, public feeds or pages the publisher makes available to everyone) and respects robots.txt and rate limits. You are responsible for using the data in line with the source's terms and applicable law.

### Support

Found a problem or need a field added? Open an issue on the Issues tab; it is read and answered.

# Actor input Schema

## `websites` (type: `array`):

Domains or URLs, one per line.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Max sites. Default: 10000. (min 1)

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "websites": [
    "apify.com",
    "shopify.com",
    "nytimes.com",
    "gymshark.com"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All results as JSON items in the run's default dataset (also downloadable as CSV/Excel from the dataset).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "websites": [
        "apify.com",
        "shopify.com",
        "nytimes.com",
        "gymshark.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("buzzcompare/website-tech-stack").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "websites": [
        "apify.com",
        "shopify.com",
        "nytimes.com",
        "gymshark.com",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("buzzcompare/website-tech-stack").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "websites": [
    "apify.com",
    "shopify.com",
    "nytimes.com",
    "gymshark.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call buzzcompare/website-tech-stack --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,buzzcompare/website-tech-stack"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/GYkVYnH0ZDVSheznk/builds/hdblEEmcdBAYZ9dLL/openapi.json