September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
10h 46m
English
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Wappalyzer
Another tool for recovering this kind of information is Wappalyzer. Wappalyzer has a database of web application signatures that allows you to identify more than 900 web technologies from more than 50 categories.
The tool analyzes multiple elements of the website to determine its technologies, it analyzes the following HTML elements:
- HTTP response headers on the server
- Meta HTML tags
- JavaScript files, both separately and embedded in the HTML
- Specific HTML content
- HTML-specific comments
python-Wappalyzer is a Python interface for obtaining this information from a Python script (https://github.com/chorsley/python-Wappalyzer):
pip install python-Wappalyzer
We can easily use the wappalyzer module to obtain information about technologies ...