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Wappalyzer no longer open source?

21 points by gorenb 3y ago

NPM says wappalyzer is deprecated: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wappalyzer The Github repo doesn’t exist: https://github.com/wappalyzer/wappalyzer

gorenb 3y ago
I should note that the company was private about this, and didn’t mention it anywhere. Someone asked what they’re selling, which I couldn’t respond to since it’s dead, but they’re trying to sell an API, which is basically what was open source but it requires internet and costs money.
- klaaz0r 3y ago
  From a business perspective I understand closing it but building OSS and taking it private does feel a little weird?
  - KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
    It's a web scraping tool that requires constant daily maintenance. I don't think they get enough third party contributors to justify keeping it open source. I bet most users are just there to raise issues whenever something breaks.
    - klaaz0r 3y ago
      Looking at the git history they did get decent amount of contributions they are of course completely free todo this but it does feel a little like profit from OSS and take it private once you have enough
      - PeterisP 3y ago
        They're not "of course completely free todo this" unless they have permission or copyright transfer from every single contributor. They don't solely own full copyright to the combined product, they have been licensed these contributions under GPL, if they want to distribute the combined product (their own code + contributions) they either have to follow the licence conditions or it's a copyright violation.
klaaz0r 3y ago
For any one interested here is a fork of the last commit (not my GH): https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer It feels a bit odd to benefit from open source and than make it private, of course the author is allowed to do that but it does make me cautious about other OSS projects that are getting funding now
LexiMax 3y ago
It appears that this was done on purpose and is not an oversight. https://nitter.net/elbertalias/status/1694454191266390361 https://nitter.net/elbertalias/status/1694454191266390361
yasher 3y ago
The owner of the project change it to private and discontinued because he want to monetize it. I read today that a company will follow the project almos the "techonoly" files, that is the more difficult to mantain. https://github.com/enthec/webappanalyzer https://github.com/enthec/webappanalyzer
osbre 3y ago
I have a copy of it from 11th of July, since I used to contibute. https://github.com/osbre/wappalyzer https://github.com/osbre/wappalyzer (with the original commit history) Weird and sad to see this extension go private, it was recieving a lot of contributions on GitHub.
nivekney 3y ago
https://www.wappalyzer.com/ https://www.wappalyzer.com/
rizky05 3y ago
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evv 3y ago
Actually I didn't know it used to be open source! I think they make money by selling data harvested through the extension. So you might be able to pay them to answer "how many websites are using X library/framework"?
blogornot 3y ago
I have a mirror of the repository but the last update was in October 29 of 2022. Does anyone have a more recent mirror?
- klaaz0r 3y ago
  Here is one I found with the last commit: https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer
- sneakernets 3y ago
  I posted the most recent mirror possible a little further up this thread. Hopefully it works for you. Not sure what other repos it might require which are also gone, but it's something.
  - blogornot 3y ago
    Got it.. I pulled latest. I had to switch from master to main, but it worked! Thanks!
sneakernets 3y ago
Looks like someone managed to grab a full copy right before the repo was yanked: https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer Last commit was 15 hours ago. This was very recent.
- ta988 3y ago
  we really need the equivalent of archive.org for git repos
  - UltimateEdge 3y ago
    I sometimes submit direct download links to archive.org , like this: https://github.com/git/git/archive/refs/heads/master.zip https://github.com/git/git/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
- dochne 3y ago
  Thanks here go to the work done by the awesome-archive[0] project without whom this day would have been much more frustrating. [0] https://github.com/awesome-archive/Wappalyzer/pull/1 https://github.com/awesome-archive/Wappalyzer/pull/1
vclemenzi 3y ago
Unexpected, do any of you know alternatives?
- hoten 3y ago
  https://github.com/johnmichel/Library-Detector-for-Chrome https://github.com/johnmichel/Library-Detector-for-Chrome
  - vclemenzi 3y ago
    i use firefox, but I think it might help someone
    - hoten 3y ago
      Ignore the name of a library, it's not just related to Chrome.
processunknown 3y ago
Are there any legal impact of closing the source code considering people have contributed to this project and they are very likely using those contributions?
- klaaz0r 3y ago
  I think they changed the license a little while back to GPL v3?

21 points by gorenb 3y ago

NPM says wappalyzer is deprecated: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wappalyzer The Github repo doesn’t exist: https://github.com/wappalyzer/wappalyzer

gorenb 3y ago

I should note that the company was private about this, and didn’t mention it anywhere. Someone asked what they’re selling, which I couldn’t respond to since it’s dead, but they’re trying to sell an API, which is basically what was open source but it requires internet and costs money.

klaaz0r 3y ago
From a business perspective I understand closing it but building OSS and taking it private does feel a little weird?
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
  It's a web scraping tool that requires constant daily maintenance. I don't think they get enough third party contributors to justify keeping it open source. I bet most users are just there to raise issues whenever something breaks.
  - klaaz0r 3y ago
    Looking at the git history they did get decent amount of contributions they are of course completely free todo this but it does feel a little like profit from OSS and take it private once you have enough
    - PeterisP 3y ago
      They're not "of course completely free todo this" unless they have permission or copyright transfer from every single contributor. They don't solely own full copyright to the combined product, they have been licensed these contributions under GPL, if they want to distribute the combined product (their own code + contributions) they either have to follow the licence conditions or it's a copyright violation.

klaaz0r 3y ago

For any one interested here is a fork of the last commit (not my GH): https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer It feels a bit odd to benefit from open source and than make it private, of course the author is allowed to do that but it does make me cautious about other OSS projects that are getting funding now

LexiMax 3y ago

It appears that this was done on purpose and is not an oversight. https://nitter.net/elbertalias/status/1694454191266390361 https://nitter.net/elbertalias/status/1694454191266390361

yasher 3y ago

The owner of the project change it to private and discontinued because he want to monetize it. I read today that a company will follow the project almos the "techonoly" files, that is the more difficult to mantain. https://github.com/enthec/webappanalyzer https://github.com/enthec/webappanalyzer

osbre 3y ago

I have a copy of it from 11th of July, since I used to contibute. https://github.com/osbre/wappalyzer https://github.com/osbre/wappalyzer (with the original commit history) Weird and sad to see this extension go private, it was recieving a lot of contributions on GitHub.

nivekney 3y ago

https://www.wappalyzer.com/ https://www.wappalyzer.com/

rizky05 3y ago

[dead]

evv 3y ago

Actually I didn't know it used to be open source! I think they make money by selling data harvested through the extension. So you might be able to pay them to answer "how many websites are using X library/framework"?

blogornot 3y ago

I have a mirror of the repository but the last update was in October 29 of 2022. Does anyone have a more recent mirror?

klaaz0r 3y ago
Here is one I found with the last commit: https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer
sneakernets 3y ago
I posted the most recent mirror possible a little further up this thread. Hopefully it works for you. Not sure what other repos it might require which are also gone, but it's something.
- blogornot 3y ago
  Got it.. I pulled latest. I had to switch from master to main, but it worked! Thanks!

sneakernets 3y ago

Looks like someone managed to grab a full copy right before the repo was yanked: https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer Last commit was 15 hours ago. This was very recent.

ta988 3y ago
we really need the equivalent of archive.org for git repos
- UltimateEdge 3y ago
  I sometimes submit direct download links to archive.org , like this: https://github.com/git/git/archive/refs/heads/master.zip https://github.com/git/git/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
dochne 3y ago
Thanks here go to the work done by the awesome-archive[0] project without whom this day would have been much more frustrating. [0] https://github.com/awesome-archive/Wappalyzer/pull/1 https://github.com/awesome-archive/Wappalyzer/pull/1

vclemenzi 3y ago

Unexpected, do any of you know alternatives?

hoten 3y ago
https://github.com/johnmichel/Library-Detector-for-Chrome https://github.com/johnmichel/Library-Detector-for-Chrome
- vclemenzi 3y ago
  i use firefox, but I think it might help someone
  - hoten 3y ago
    Ignore the name of a library, it's not just related to Chrome.

processunknown 3y ago

Are there any legal impact of closing the source code considering people have contributed to this project and they are very likely using those contributions?

klaaz0r 3y ago
I think they changed the license a little while back to GPL v3?