How to check if a site runs on magento?

Question

Is there any way to check if a given website runs on Magento? Looking for a programmatic way. I have tried to look in the documentation, but to no avail.

Fatherland

Answer 1

You can check from websites like http://www.builtwith.com/.

There are many browser extensions also available to check website's technology.

If you want to check by manual debugging, there are many ways to find whether a site is running on Magento or not.

• Check page source of any page, if it has like skin/frontend
• In address bar, open url /downloader, if it opens magento connect login page.

• In address bar, open url /install.php, if site is Magento site, then it will show following error:

  FAILED ERROR: Magento is already installed

• Another clue can be admin url. Most of Magento stores don't bother to change admin url. If it opens by hitting /index.php/admin and shows Magento somewhere on page, then it is 100% running on Magento Platform.

• Magento/Varien can be found in page source if a website is built with magento.

Note: All these manual instructions are for magento version < 2.0

I hope, this will help you.

Strip

Answer 2

By using the page view source, it can be easily identified whether site is running on Magento or not with a more specific version.

Magento 2: Mage cookies script tag will be as follows:

<script type="text/x-magento-init">
{
    "*": {
        "mage/cookies": {
            "expires": null,
            "path": "/",
            "domain": ".www.example.com",
            "secure": false,
            "lifetime": "3600"
        }
    }
}

Magento 1: Mage cookies script tag will be as follows:

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
Mage.Cookies.path     = '/';
Mage.Cookies.domain   = '.example.com';
//]]>
</script>

Iinden

Note that not all pages on a site might have this. For example /store might, but /home might not have any reference to Magento. – Legrand

Answer 3

I don't think that an easy way of checking this exists, but there are some browser extensions that can do the job for you.

For example, to Google Chrome you can use Appspector.

From the description:

Detect web applications and javascript libraries run on browsing website. This extension will help web developer to inspect web framework / CMS and javascript library running on current browsing website. An icon will appear on address bar indicates the detected framework. Version detecting is being implemented.

Currently, this extension can detect more than 100 popular CMS and javascript libraries, and more will be added in future releases. Visit extension website for more detail.

Andy

Thank you Diogo! But I was looking for more of a programmatic approach. Are there any places that release the approach they use? – Fatherland

Answer 4

Magento spews this information all over the place, snag any stock javascript in the JS folder and look for Magento/Varien copyright headers.

Magento/Varien copyright headers also spew from the skin folders in CSS and JS files.

Plenty of indicators in routing URLs as well.

Facelifting