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dochne / wappalyzer

wappalyzer

The last commit of Wappalyzer before it went private

4Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
287GitHub stars
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What it is

The last commit of Wappalyzer before it went private

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-08-23 15:30:42 UTC to 2023-09-10 11:31:25 UTC.

01232023-08-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsAug 232023-08-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 12023-09-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-09-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 10

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 232023-08-23 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-24 00:00:00 UTC303
Aug 242023-08-24 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 252023-08-25 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 262023-08-26 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 272023-08-27 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 282023-08-28 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 292023-08-29 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 302023-08-30 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 312023-08-31 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 12023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 22023-09-02 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 32023-09-03 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 42023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-05 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 52023-09-05 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 62023-09-06 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 72023-09-07 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 82023-09-08 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 92023-09-09 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 102023-09-10 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Well, it seems like a good part of the analyzer is about some "leaks" or specific behaviors from a language that could give us some tells about what technology is used. I checked Wappalyzer's code (at least the last commit before it went private: https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer) and PHP gives more tells (https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer/blob/main/src/technolog...) than Python for example (https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer/blob/main/src/technolog...). Some technologies seem to give more tells than others. Which means some technologies could be way more invisible than others. I am not sure we can suppose the known and unknown technologies have the same ratio. I quickly checked some websites with BuiltWith and Wappalyzer and from my personal totally unscientific and small sample data, they seem to detect more easily PHP than othe
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r languages like Python. Again, I don't know. But I took 5% to be optimistic. It could be 30% or 50%. And then the whole picture changes. Edit: Funny thing, it even adds PHP to some sites I know (almost for sure) don't use PHP. Like GitHub using Ruby (true) and PHP with Drupal (???).
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