Wappalyzer is a browser extension that uncovers the technologies used on websites. It detects content management systems, web shops, web servers, JavaScript frameworks, analytics tools and many more.
Adding a new application
- Edit
share/apps.json
- Add a 16x16 PNG image to
share/images/icons
matching the application name. - Provide the URL to the application's website when submitting a pull request.
Example:
"Application Name": {
cats: [ "1" ],
headers: { "X-Powered-By": "Application Name" },
url: ".+\\.application-name\\.com",
html: "<link[^>]application-name\\.css",
meta: { "generator": "Application Name" },
script: "application-name\\.js",
env: "ApplicationName",
implies: [ "PHP" ]
}
Wappalyzer is multi-platform. The main code lives in the share/
directory and
platform specific code in drivers/
. The sections below describe how to set up
a development environment for the various existing drivers.
To keep files synchronised between drivers, run the links.sh
script (UNIX-like
systems only, Windows users can use links.cmd
.)
Mozilla Firefox
- Place a file called
[email protected]
in the extensions directory in your profile folder (~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default/extensions/
on Linux) containing the full path todrivers/firefox
. - Restart Firefox
- Navigate to
about:config
and setextensions.wappalyzer.debug
totrue
. - Ctrl+Shift+J brings up a console for debugging.
Google Chrome
The Chrome version needs some love, if anyone wants to pick it up. It's currently not as feature-rich as the Firefox add-on (although partially due to API limitations.)
- Navigate to
about:extensions
- Check "Developer mode"
- Click "Load unpacked extension..."
- Select
drivers/chrome/
Bookmarklet
Beta version available for testing at wappalyzer.com/bookmarklet.
HTML
The HTML driver serves purely as an example. It's a good starting point if you want to port Wappalyzer to a new platform.
- Navigate to
drivers/html/
PHP
The PHP driver requires the V8js class. Installing V8js using PECL on Debian Linux or Ubuntu should be very straight forward:
# aptitude install php5-dev php-pear libv8-dev
# pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/v8js-0.1.3
# echo "extension=v8js.so" > /etc/php5/conf.d/v8js.ini
Runnning Wappalyzer from the command line:
$ php drivers/php/index.php wappalyzer.com
Running Wappalyzer inside a PHP script:
require('WappalyzerException.php');
require('Wappalyzer.php');
$wappalyzer = new Wappalyzer($url);
$detectedApps = $wappalyzer->analyze();
Mozilla Jetpack
Work in progress, experimental. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack.
Wappalyzer on Firefox: