Identifying the technology used by a website

The type of technology used to build a website will affect the way information is recovered from the user navigation. To identify this information, you can make use of tools such as wappalyzer (https://www.wappalyzer.com) and builtwith (https://builtwith.com).

A useful tool to verify the type of technologies a website is built with is the BuiltWith module (https://pypi.org/project/builtwith), which can be installed with this command:

$ pip3 install builtwith

This module provides a method called parse, which is passed by the URL parameter and returns the technologies used by the website as a response.

In the following output, we can see the response for two websites:

>>> import builtwith
>>> builtwith.parse('http://wordpress.com')
{'web-servers': ['Nginx'], 'font-scripts': ['Google Font API'], 'ecommerce': ['WooCommerce'], 'cms&apos...