BuiltWith lookup script

BuiltWith is a web service that lets you check what web tech­nolo­gies are used on a given website. This simple script lets you do that directly from command line.

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import urlparse
import sys
import requests

import lxml
from lxml import etree
from cStringIO import StringIO

if __name__ == "__main__":
    domain = sys.argv[1]
    base_url = "http://builtwith.com/"
    url = urlparse.urljoin(base_url, domain)
    print "Visiting {} ...\n".format(url)
    response = requests.get(url)

    parser = etree.HTMLParser()
    tree = etree.parse(StringIO(response.content), parser)

    tech_items = tree.xpath("//div[contains(@class, 'techItem')]//h3")
    for item in tech_items:
        print "".join(item.itertext()).strip()

After placing it in a executable file named builtwith in your $PATH, you can use it like so:

$ builtwith 37signals.com
Visiting http://builtwith.com/37signals.com ...

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