# Shopify App & Theme Detector + App Install Monitor (`ninoventures/shopify-app-tech-detector`) Actor

Finds the apps, theme, currency, product count and public contact details of Shopify stores from a list of domains. Monitoring mode reports apps added or removed since the last run. $5 per 1,000 stores.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ninoventures/shopify-app-tech-detector.md
- **Developed by:** [Nino Ventures](https://apify.com/ninoventures) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, 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 store analyzeds

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?

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

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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

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# README

## Shopify App & Theme Detector + App Install Monitor

Give it a list of domains. For each Shopify store it returns the apps it runs, the theme, currency, country, product count, public contact email and social links. Run it on a schedule and it also tells you which apps a store added or removed since the last run.

In our test run, 13 domains took 18 seconds. 11 were Shopify stores, and we found 10.8 apps per store on average (between 1 and 21). A public email turned up for 7 of the 11.

### What you get per store

- Apps, matched against 130+ known signatures: Klaviyo, Judge.me, Yotpo, ReCharge, Gorgias, Okendo, Attentive, Rebuy, Smile.io, Loox, Privy, Omnisend, Afterpay, Klarna, Global-e, Route, Nosto, PageFly and more.
- App embeds (theme app extensions) by handle, including apps that aren't in the signature list. Tentree, for example, shows `pushowl` and `tentree-cart-app`.
- Theme name and version, and whether it's a custom theme or one from the Theme Store.
- Currency, country, locale, the myshopify domain, and whether the store is headless or uses an Online Store theme.
- Product count, vendor count, price range and newest product date, read from the public `/products.json`.
- Public contact email, phone, and links to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, X, Pinterest and LinkedIn.
- Tracking pixels and tags: Meta, TikTok, Google Ads, GA4, GTM, Pinterest, Snapchat, Bing.
- In monitoring mode: `appsInstalled`, `appsRemoved` and `themeChanged` compared with the previous run.

You only pay for Shopify stores that were analyzed. Domains that aren't Shopify, can't be reached, are password-protected or appear twice cost nothing.

### Typical uses

- You build a Shopify app and want stores that run a competitor's app, or that removed it last week.
- You run an agency and want to check a prospect's stack and catalog size before you contact them.
- You have a list of domains and want apps, socials and a public email added to each row.
- You want to know what the larger brands in your niche run.

### How to use

1. Paste store URLs or bare domains into **Store URLs or domains**, e.g. `allbirds.com` or `https://www.tentree.com`.
2. Click **Start**. Most stores take 1 to 3 seconds.
3. Export the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

#### Monitoring app installs and uninstalls

1. Turn on **Monitoring mode** and name the watch list in **Monitoring storage name**, e.g. `my-competitor-watchlist`.
2. Run once. This saves the baseline.
3. [Schedule](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules) the Actor daily or weekly. From then on, each row has `monitoring.appsInstalled`, `monitoring.appsRemoved` and `monitoring.themeChanged`.
4. Turn on **Output only stores with changes** if you only want rows that changed. Stores without changes are skipped and not charged.

You can send the dataset to Slack, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or a webhook with [Apify integrations](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations).

### Input example

```json
{
  "stores": ["allbirds.com", "tentree.com", "deathwishcoffee.com", "colourpop.com"],
  "countProducts": true,
  "maxProductPages": 4,
  "monitoringMode": true,
  "monitorStoreName": "shopify-app-monitor",
  "outputOnlyChanges": false
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "input": "tentree.com",
  "domain": "www.tentree.com",
  "isShopify": true,
  "status": "ok",
  "myshopifyDomain": "tentree-development-store.myshopify.com",
  "storefrontType": "online-store-theme",
  "storeName": "Tentree | Sustainable Clothing—Every Item Plants 10 Trees",
  "country": "US",
  "locale": "en",
  "currency": "USD",
  "theme": { "name": "Production US - Theme A", "schemaName": "Shopify Theme Lab", "schemaVersion": "1.0.0", "themeStoreId": null, "isCustomTheme": true },
  "appCount": 13,
  "apps": [
    { "name": "Klaviyo", "category": "Email & SMS marketing", "evidence": "static.klaviyo.com" },
    { "name": "Okendo", "category": "Reviews", "evidence": "okendo.io" },
    { "name": "ReCharge", "category": "Subscriptions", "evidence": "rechargecdn.com" },
    { "name": "Gladly", "category": "Customer support", "evidence": "gladly.com" },
    "… 9 more"
  ],
  "appEmbeds": ["applovin-shop-integration", "pushowl", "tentree-cart-app"],
  "appCategories": ["Analytics & CRO", "Customer support", "Email & SMS marketing", "Loyalty & rewards", "Order tracking", "Payments & BNPL", "Reviews", "Subscriptions", "Upsell & cross-sell"],
  "technologies": ["Google Tag Manager", "Google Ads", "Microsoft (Bing) UET", "jQuery"],
  "productCount": 1000,
  "productCountIsMinimum": true,
  "vendorCount": 2,
  "lastProductPublishedAt": "2026-10-30T21:52:59-07:00",
  "priceRange": { "min": 4.5, "max": 348 },
  "contactEmail": "support@tentree.com",
  "socialLinks": {},
  "monitoring": { "previousCheckAt": "2026-10-24T08:00:00.000Z", "appsInstalled": ["Rebuy"], "appsRemoved": ["Privy"], "themeChanged": null, "hasChanges": true },
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-31T17:34:03.718Z"
}
```

Real output for tentree.com (the `monitoring` block is an illustrative second-run example). `productCountIsMinimum: true` means the store has at least that many products (raise **Max product pages** for an exact count of large catalogs).

### Pricing

$0.005 per analyzed Shopify store, which is $5 per 1,000. There is no monthly fee. Domains that aren't Shopify, can't be reached, are blocked, password-protected or duplicated are free. With **Output only stores with changes** on, skipped stores are free as well. The monthly credit on Apify's free plan covers about 1,000 stores.

### What it reads

The Actor only loads public pages: the homepage, `/pages/contact` and Shopify's public `/products.json`. That is the same data a browser gets. It respects `robots.txt` by default, sends a few requests per store and processes 5 stores in parallel. It never logs in, never gets past a store password and never touches admin data.

Detection works from script URLs, CDN hosts and app embeds on the storefront. Apps that load nothing on the storefront, such as accounting or inventory tools, can't be seen.

A public business email can still count as personal data under GDPR. Follow the laws that apply to you, such as GDPR or CAN-SPAM, when you use it.

### FAQ

**Does it find every app?** No. It only sees apps that load something on the storefront. App embeds are reported even for apps that aren't in the signature list.

**Headless stores (Hydrogen or a custom front-end)?** They're detected as Shopify with `storefrontType: "headless"`. Theme and `/products.json` data are often missing for them.

**Why is a store marked `not-shopify`?** It runs on another platform, or it redirected to a non-Shopify page for our region.

**Some stores show very few apps.** A few large brands redirect to a separate checkout or regional domain. Gymshark, for example, redirected to `us.checkout.gymshark.com` and only 1 app was found there. Try the brand's regional storefront URL directly.

**Can you add an app?** Yes. Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the store URL where it appears.

# Actor input Schema

## `stores` (type: `array`):

Shopify store homepages or plain domains, e.g. allbirds.com or https://www.gymshark.com. Duplicates are removed automatically.

## `countProducts` (type: `boolean`):

Adds product count, vendor count, price range and date of the newest product.

## `maxProductPages` (type: `integer`):

Caps catalog counting per store. If the cap is hit, productCountIsMinimum = true (e.g. '1000+').

## `scanContactPage` (type: `boolean`):

If no public email is found on the homepage, also check the store's public contact page.

## `monitoringMode` (type: `boolean`):

Saves each store's app list in a named key-value store and reports apps installed/removed and theme changes since the previous run. Schedule the Actor (e.g. daily or weekly) to get a change feed.

## `monitorStoreName` (type: `string`):

Name of the key-value store that keeps the previous snapshot. Use different names for different watch lists.

## `outputOnlyChanges` (type: `boolean`):

In monitoring mode, skip stores without any app/theme change since the last run (you are not charged for skipped stores).

## `includeNonShopify` (type: `boolean`):

Keep a (free) row for domains that are not Shopify or could not be reached.

## `respectRobotsTxt` (type: `boolean`):

Skip pages that the store disallows for all crawlers.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Stores processed in parallel. Each store gets only a handful of requests.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Usually not needed – Shopify storefronts are public.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "stores": [
    "allbirds.com",
    "colourpop.com",
    "gymshark.com"
  ],
  "countProducts": true,
  "maxProductPages": 4,
  "scanContactPage": true,
  "monitoringMode": false,
  "monitorStoreName": "shopify-app-monitor",
  "outputOnlyChanges": false,
  "includeNonShopify": true,
  "respectRobotsTxt": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Table view of all analyzed stores (default dataset, overview view).

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

All fields for every analyzed store in the default 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 = {
    "stores": [
        "allbirds.com",
        "colourpop.com",
        "gymshark.com"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ninoventures/shopify-app-tech-detector").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 = {
    "stores": [
        "allbirds.com",
        "colourpop.com",
        "gymshark.com",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ninoventures/shopify-app-tech-detector").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 '{
  "stores": [
    "allbirds.com",
    "colourpop.com",
    "gymshark.com"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call ninoventures/shopify-app-tech-detector --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ninoventures/shopify-app-tech-detector"
        }
    }
}
```

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/GjukK1NKCwYS6e4Jm/builds/wmbslO7jjFvy4KOlp/openapi.json