Sniffer

A powerful website technology detection tool that identifies CMS platforms, frameworks, web servers, analytics tools, databases, and more behind any website.

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Features

Category	Technologies Detected
🛠️ CMS	WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento
🌐 Web Servers	Apache, Nginx, IIS, LiteSpeed, Caddy, Cloudflare
⚡ JS Frameworks	React, Vue.js, Angular, Next.js, Nuxt.js, Svelte, Ember.js, jQuery
💻 Languages	PHP, Python, Ruby, Node.js, ASP.NET
📈 Analytics	Google Analytics, GTM, Facebook Pixel, Hotjar, Matomo
☁️ CDN	Cloudflare, CloudFront, Akamai, Fastly, jsDelivr, Cloudinary
🗄️ Databases	MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
🛒 E-commerce	Shopify, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, OpenCart, BigCommerce, Wix
🛡️ Security Headers	CSP, HSTS, XSS Protection, COOP, COEP, and more

Additional capabilities:

• 🔁 Auto HTTP fallback — retries over HTTP if HTTPS fails
• 🎨 Colored output — clean, readable terminal output
• 💾 JSON export — save results for further analysis
• 🐛 Verbose mode — full debug output including raw headers
• 💻 Cross-platform — Linux, Windows, macOS, and Termux (Android)

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Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6 or higher
• pip (Python package manager)

Installation

git clone https://github.com/expl0itlab/sniffer.git
cd sniffer
pip install -r requirements.txt
python sniffer.py

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Platform Setup

🐧 Linux / Ubuntu / Debian

sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3 python3-pip git
git clone https://github.com/expl0itlab/sniffer.git
cd sniffer
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 sniffer.py

🍎 macOS

brew install python git
git clone https://github.com/expl0itlab/sniffer.git
cd sniffer
pip install -r requirements.txt
python sniffer.py

🪟 Windows

git clone https://github.com/expl0itlab/sniffer.git
cd sniffer
pip install -r requirements.txt
python sniffer.py

📱 Android (Termux)

pkg update && pkg upgrade
pkg install python git
git clone https://github.com/expl0itlab/sniffer.git
cd sniffer
pip install -r requirements.txt
python sniffer.py

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Usage

python sniffer.py [url] [-o OUTPUT] [-v]

Argument	Description
url	Target website URL (optional — will prompt if omitted)
-o, --output	Save results to a JSON file
-v, --verbose	Show raw headers, debug info, and full error traces

Examples

# Basic scan
python sniffer.py example.com

# Scan and save results
python sniffer.py example.com -o results.json

# Verbose output (shows headers, fallback attempts, debug info)
python sniffer.py example.com -v

# Interactive mode
python sniffer.py

Sample Output

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📊  TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS REPORT
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🎯  Target    : https://example.com
🔗  Final URL : https://example.com/
📡  Status    : 200
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🛠️  CMS PLATFORMS:
   ✅  WordPress

🌐  WEB SERVERS:
   ✅  Nginx
   ✅  Cloudflare

⚡  JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORKS:
   ✅  React
   ✅  jQuery

📈  ANALYTICS TOOLS:
   ✅  Google Analytics
   ✅  Google Tag Manager

🛡️  SECURITY FEATURES:
   ✅  HSTS Enabled: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
   ✅  CSP Header: default-src 'self'
   ✅  Clickjacking Protection: SAMEORIGIN

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Analysis completed successfully!
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Project Structure

sniffer/
├── sniffer.py          # Main entry point
├── requirements.txt    # Python dependencies
└── utils/
    ├── __init__.py     # Package metadata & exports
    ├── banner.py       # Colored output helpers
    ├── detector.py     # Technology detection engine
    └── platform_check.py  # Cross-platform requirements check

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Requirements

requests>=2.25.1
colorama>=0.4.4
urllib3>=1.26.0

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⚠️ Legal Disclaimer

This tool is intended for authorized security testing and educational purposes only.

• Only use Sniffer on websites you own or have explicit written permission to test
• Unauthorized scanning may violate local laws and terms of service
• The authors take no responsibility for misuse of this tool

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Acknowledgments

• Inspired by tools like Wappalyzer and WhatWeb
• Thanks to the Python open-source community
• Exploit Lab — security research and community support
• All contributors and testers who help improve Sniffer

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