🔍 Website Technology Profiler API (WhatRuns)

Instantly discover the entire software, framework, and tool stack powering any website on the internet. Perfect for competitor analysis, lead generation, market research, and developer security audits.

This edge-optimized tool queries an advanced website technologies database, processes complex chained tracking redirects, extracts frameworks, CMS platforms, analytics, and advertising packages, records programmatic PPE charge units, and maps clean visual answers.

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🌟 Key Features

• Deep Technology Profiles: Instantly identify CMSs (WordPress, Shopify), frameworks (React, Next.js), analytics tools (Google Analytics, Mixpanel), widgets, fonts, and stylesheets.
• Chained Redirect Cleaning: Automatically decodes nested tracking URLs to present clean vendor homepages.
• Blazing Fast Concurrent Execution: Scans the target domain in milliseconds via concurrent edge routing.
• Interactive Spreadsheet View: Displays technology names, categories, target vendor urls, and profiled domains side-by-side.
• Pay-Per-Event PPE Monetization: Highly cost-effective pricing model charging only for successful technology profile lookups.

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🛠️ How It Works

This Actor routes website profiling lookups to an edge-deployed gateway, processes domain inputs, queries real-time technology detection APIs, maps details to a key-value store, registers programmatic charge event metrics, and outputs structured sheets.

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📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description	Prefill Example
Target Website Domain	string	The domain name of the website to profile.	amazon.com

Input JSON Example

{
  "domain": "amazon.com"
}

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📤 Output Data Structure

Tabular datasets output clean rows mapping the account info:

Output JSON Example

{
  "success": true,
  "domain": "amazon.com",
  "category": "Web Frameworks",
  "technology_name": "Next.js",
  "vendor_url": "https://nextjs.org",
  "icon_url": "https://www.whatruns.com/images/apps/Next.js.png"
}

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💳 Monetization & Cost

This Actor utilizes the Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model on the Apify Store:

• Base Pricing: Only $4.00 per 1,000 successful lookups ($0.004 per event).
• Pay as You Go: If a lookup fails completely or returns no results, no billing charges occur.