Shopify Theme Detector & App Detector: Store Analyzer for any Shopify store

Paused: store analysis is on hold. We are asking Shopify for written permission before this Actor sends any further request to a store. Until then every run returns one free row per store with status: "paused_pending_permission". No data is fetched and no result is charged. Only the Actor start fee that Apify bills on every run ($0.00005 per GB of run memory) still applies. The description below shows how the Actor works once it is resumed.

This Shopify theme detector and app detector tells you which theme a Shopify store runs and which apps it has installed. Give it a list of stores and you get one row per store: the theme, the installed apps, how big the catalog is, the price range, how many products were added in the last 30 days, and an optional AI label for niche, business model and audience. Everything is read from the store's public pages. Run it for one competitor or a few hundred leads, and export the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it through the API.

We built it because qualifying Shopify stores by hand is slow. You open the site, view the source, guess the theme, scroll the catalog, and repeat that a hundred times. This does it in seconds per store.

Who uses it

• Agencies and freelancers looking for stores on a certain theme, or stores without a reviews or email app, to pitch.
• Shopify app developers checking which competitors' apps a market already uses.
• Brands keeping an eye on competitors' stack, catalog size and how often they launch products.
• Dropshippers and product researchers who want to see price points and new-product activity across many stores.
• Investors screening lists of DTC brands by niche, size and activity.

What you get for each store

Field	Example
Name, country, currency	Allbirds, US, USD
Theme	base theme Dawn, version 15.2.0, and whether it is a Theme Store theme or custom-built
Installed apps	Klaviyo, Judge.me, Yotpo, Recharge, Gorgias, Attentive, Afterpay, Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel and 40+ more
Catalog	published products and collections, lowest, median and highest price, top vendors, top product types
Activity	date of the newest product and how many products were added in the last 30 days
Shipping	number of countries the store ships to
Niche label	niche (22 categories), business model (own brand, multi-brand retailer, print-on-demand, digital products, general dropshipping) and main audience, each with a confidence score from 0 to 1
Sample products	10 products with title, URL, price, type and vendor

If a site isn't a Shopify store you get isShopify: false. Some big brands put a custom front end on top of Shopify that hides the store data; those come back as storefront: "headless". Neither case is charged. You only pay for stores that return data.

How to run it

1. Paste store URLs or domains into Store URLs or domains, for example allbirds.com or https://www.gymshark.com.
2. Set Max products to read per store if you want more or less than 250. Set it to 0 to skip the catalog.
3. Leave AI niche, business model and audience label switched on if you want the niche label.
4. Start the run. Export the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them through the API, Make, Zapier or n8n.

Example output

{
  "input": "colourpop.com",
  "isShopify": true,
  "storefront": "online_store",
  "shopName": "ColourPop",
  "country": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "theme": { "baseTheme": "Colourpop", "isCustomTheme": true },
  "apps": ["Attentive", "Elevar", "Gorgias", "Junip", "Klarna", "Klaviyo"],
  "publishedProducts": 1064,
  "catalog": { "priceMin": 1.0, "priceMedian": 12.0, "priceMax": 159.0, "productsAddedLast30Days": 2 },
  "ai": { "niche": "Health & Beauty", "nicheConfidence": 1.0, "businessModel": "own_brand", "audience": "women" }
}

How to use the Shopify theme detector via API

You can run the Shopify theme detector in the Apify Console, or call it from your own code through the Apify API. The API tab of this Actor has ready-to-copy examples for the JavaScript and Python API clients, the Apify CLI, plain HTTP and the OpenAPI definition. To use it from an AI assistant or agent, connect the Apify MCP server and add this Actor as a tool.

Send the same JSON input you would fill in the form, for example a list of store domains such as allbirds.com, start a run, and read the results from the run's default dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel. You can also schedule runs in Apify.

Pricing

You pay per event and there's no subscription. A store that returns data counts as one "store analyzed" event. If the niche label is on, that store also counts as one "AI label" event. Stores that aren't Shopify, or that are headless, cost nothing.

Tips

• For a clean list, filter on nicheConfidence >= 0.7. Lower scores usually mean the store sells a mix of things.
• To find stores missing an app, filter the apps column. A store with no reviews app is an easy pitch for a reviews agency.
• productsAddedLast30Days is a quick way to see which stores are actively launching products.

FAQ

How does it access stores? It reads three kinds of public storefront pages only: the homepage source, the public store info and the public product catalog, the same pages a visitor's browser loads. It does not use any Shopify API, never logs in, never touches carts, checkout or accounts, and does not download theme files. It identifies itself as ReliableToolsBot, checks each store's robots.txt first and skips any page the store disallows (those rows come back with status: "blocked_by_robots_txt" and are not charged). It waits at least one second between requests to the same store, or longer if the store's robots.txt sets a crawl delay, and reads at most two stores at a time. If a store asks for a crawl delay above 10 seconds, the catalog is skipped. If a store refuses automated access, the Actor stops for that store and does not retry (status: "refused_by_store", not charged). Stores that cannot be reached come back with status: "unreachable" and are not charged. It does not target personal data. You are responsible for how you use the results.

Why are some stores marked headless? They run their own front end on top of Shopify, which doesn't expose the public store data. You aren't charged for them.

How accurate is the niche label? Every label comes with a confidence score. A high score means the store clearly fits one category. When a store sells several kinds of products, the score drops and tells you so.

Can I read every product of a big store? You can raise Max products to read per store up to 1,000. That is enough for reliable price ranges and activity stats.

How do I find out what Shopify theme a store is using? Put the store's domain into Store URLs or domains and read the theme field. You get the base theme name and version, and whether it is a Theme Store theme or a custom-built one.

Can it detect which apps a Shopify store has installed? Yes. The apps field lists the apps found in the store's page source, such as Klaviyo, Judge.me, Yotpo, Recharge, Gorgias and 40+ more.

Does it work as a website technology checker for sites that are not on Shopify? No, it is built for Shopify stores only. Other sites come back with isShopify: false and are not charged.

Something broke or a field is missing? Open an issue on the Issues tab and we'll look at it.

Disclaimer

This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Shopify Inc. Shopify is a trademark of Shopify Inc., used here only to describe which stores the tool works with. App names are trademarks of their owners.

About Reliable Tools

This Actor is made by Reliable Tools. We build scrapers that return clean data plus an AI label with a confidence score, so you can filter and act on the results straight away. Our focus is e-commerce, product sourcing and lead research.

If a field is missing or a store doesn't parse the way you expect, open an issue on the Issues tab. We read every one and usually reply within a day. You can find our other Actors on our profile page.