webappanalyzer

This project is a continuation of the iconic Wappalyzer that went private recently on August 2023.

First and foremost, Enthec is committed not to set this repo private at any moment since this would be out of the scope of the company's business.

Our interest is to keep it growing, so it can be helpful to the community as it has been until now.

There are no changes to be expected in the library. We will update it with the same JSON structure currently in use so the user experience will not be modified.

Specification

A long list of regular expressions is used to identify technologies on web pages. Wappalyzer inspects HTML code, as well as JavaScript variables, response headers and more.

Patterns (regular expressions) are kept in src/technologies/. The following is an example of an application fingerprint.

Example

"Example": {
  "description": "A short description of the technology.",
  "cats": [
    "1"
  ],
  "cookies": {
    "cookie_name": "Example"
  },
  "dom": {
    "#example-id": {
      "exists": "",
      "attributes": {
        "class": "example-class"
      },
      "properties": {
        "example-property": ""
      },
      "text": "Example text content"
    }
  },
  "dns": {
    "MX": [
      "example\\.com"
    ]
  },
  "js": {
    "Example.method": ""
  },
  "excludes": "Example",
  "headers": {
    "X-Powered-By": "Example"
  },
  "text": "\bexample\b",
  "css": "\\.example-class",
  "robots": "Disallow: /unique-path/",
  "implies": "PHP\\;confidence:50",
  "requires": "WordPress",
  "requiresCategory": "Ecommerce",
  "meta": {
    "generator": "(?:Example|Another Example)"
  },
  "probe": {
    "/path": ""
  },
  "scriptSrc": "example-([0-9.]+)\\.js\\;confidence:50\\;version:\\1",
  "scripts": "function webpackJsonpCallback\\(data\\) {",
  "url": "example\\.com",
  "xhr": "example\\.com",
  "oss": true,
  "saas": true,
  "pricing": ["mid", "freemium", "recurring"],
  "website": "https://example.com",
}

JSON fields

Find the JSON schema at schema.json.

Required properties

Optional properties

Implies, requires and excludes (optional)

Patterns (optional)

Patterns

Patterns are essentially JavaScript regular expressions written as strings, but with some additions.

Quirks and pitfalls

• Because of the string format, the escape character itself must be escaped when using special characters such as the dot (\\.). Double quotes must be escaped only once (\"). Slashes do not need to be escaped (/).
• Flags are not supported. Regular expressions are treated as case-insensitive.
• Capture groups (()) are used for version detection. In other cases, use non-capturing groups ((?:)).
• Use start and end of string anchors (^ and $) where possible for optimal performance.
• Short or generic patterns can cause applications to be identified incorrectly. Try to find unique strings to match.

Tags

Tags (a non-standard syntax) can be appended to patterns (and implies and excludes, separated by \\;) to store additional information.

Version syntax

Application version information can be obtained from a pattern using a capture group. A condition can be evaluated using the ternary operator (?:).