🔍 Website Technology Stack Lookup Actor

Detect all underlying frameworks, CMS, CDNs, analytics tools, advertising networks, and libraries powering any website. Includes UI-ready CDN icon links and detailed descriptions.

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🚀 What it does

1. Detects underlying web technologies across dozens of tech categories (CMS, Frameworks, Analytics, Security, Advertising, Payment Gateways, CDNs, etc.).
2. Provides UI-Ready CDN Icons: Every single detected technology includes a fully qualified Azure CDN URL for SVG/PNG logos, ready for instant visual rendering in customer dashboards.
3. Includes Detailed Vendor Descriptions: Returns clear paragraphs explaining what each detected technology actually does so end-users don't have to guess.
4. Categorizes Tech Stacks Logically: Groups detected tools by category names and category slugs (Advertising, Buy Now Pay Later, CDN, Security, JavaScript Libraries, etc.).

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💼 What people use it for

• Lead Enrichment & B2B CRM Integration: Automatically append tech stack metadata and visual vendor badges to prospect profiles in your CRM.
• Competitor Intelligence Dashboards: Build visual side-by-side comparisons of the tech stacks powering competitor platforms.
• Outbound Sales Personalization: Craft highly targeted cold outreach emails based on specific tools used by target accounts (e.g., targeting Shopify users or Klarna merchants).
• Cybersecurity Reconnaissance (OSINT): Identify target website infrastructure, security policies (e.g., HSTS), and CDN usage during security audits.

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🧠 Decision Rule

Check if the target domain utilizes specific required technologies (e.g. React, Shopify, Stripe, Cloudflare). If present, trigger custom automated workflows, qualification scoring, or tailored sales messages.

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⚖️ What problem does this solve?

Most traditional technology detection tools only answer:

• "Does this website use React?"

They fail to provide:

• "What does this obscure technology actually do?"
• "Where can I get a clean logo icon for this technology to render in my app's UI?"
• "How can I get structured JSON without paying thousands of dollars a year?"

Website Technology Stack Lookup Actor solves this by delivering structured JSON with rich descriptions and CDN icon assets at a fraction of the cost.

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❓ Queries this actor answers

• How do I detect what tech stack a website is using?
• How can I find what CMS or e-commerce platform a domain runs on?
• How do I get icons and logos for technologies used on a website?
• What is an affordable alternative to BuiltWith and Wappalyzer?

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📦 Canonical Usage

Given a target domain (e.g. stripe.com), run the Actor to retrieve the categorized technology stack array and save it to your dataset.

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🧭 Input Schema (fields you can use)

• domain (string, required) — The target domain name to scan (e.g., stripe.com).

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📤 Output Schema (what you get)

Results are written to the run's Dataset in this clean structure containing strictly the technology stack:

{
  "technologies": [
    {
      "category_slug": "Advertising",
      "category_name": "Advertising",
      "technologies": [
        {
          "name": "Yahoo Advertising",
          "description": "Yahoo Native provides many non-intrusive ad formats to choose from, such as image ad, video ad, app install ad, carousel ad and yahoo mail ad...",
          "icon": "https://cdn.ful.io/public/icons/yahoo.png",
          "website": "https://www.adtech.yahooinc.com",
          "technology_slug": "Yahoo-Advertising",
          "evidence": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "category_slug": "Buy-Now-Pay-Later",
      "category_name": "Buy Now Pay Later",
      "technologies": [
        {
          "name": "Affirm",
          "description": "Affirm is a remote-first financial services company providing buy-now-pay-later checkout solutions...",
          "icon": "https://cdn.ful.io/public/icons/Affirm.svg",
          "website": "https://www.affirm.com",
          "technology_slug": "Affirm",
          "evidence": []
        },
        {
          "name": "Klarna Checkout",
          "description": "Klarna Checkout provides payment solutions and installment plans for online shoppers...",
          "icon": "https://cdn.ful.io/public/icons/Klarna.svg",
          "website": "https://www.klarna.com",
          "technology_slug": "Klarna-Checkout",
          "evidence": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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⚠️ Failure Context & Error Handling

If an invalid domain is supplied or the target website is unindexed, the Actor handles it gracefully:

{
  "success": false,
  "domain": "invalid-domain.test",
  "error": "Failed to profile target website."
}

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🏷️ Keywords

tech stack, builtwith alternative, wappalyzer alternative, whatruns, technology profiler, cms detector, lead enrichment, b2b sales, reconnaissance, osint, web architecture, analytics detector.