How to find the boilerplate script someone is using on their site?

[schindyguy]

I have been browsing sites like flippa and I know most of the the sites arent custom coded, but rather boiler plate templates with underlying scripts.

How can I find out what script they are using to create the website?

The only tricky thing I have done is copyscape the TOU or privacy policy of the website in question (and because they dont change the copy) see the other sites that have been created using that same script. ----and i know that isnt too tricky

For example,

flippa auction for filemo.com

copyscape search on their tos (shows all the sites built on the script)

 

[jryan21]

Here are a couple things that may help:

- look for meta name="generator" or any revealing comments in the source

- take note of the filenames for static assets like gif, css, swf files and use the inurl:, and/or filetype: in google search

 

[schindyguy]

Here are a couple things that may help:

- look for meta name="generator" or any revealing comments in the source

- take note of the filenames for static assets like gif, css, swf files and use the inurl:, and/or filetype: in google search

thanks for the advice,

for filemo.com, i couldnt find generator or any comments in the source...
for your suggestion #2, can you please elaborate :bowdown:

 

[jryan21]

Look for <img src="uniquefilename.gif" /> tags and you can either use tineye or google image/web search on the filename.ext to see if there are other copies elsewhere.

Follow the links to the included css, js files (usually you can see the source output directly to the browser) and see if there are any revealing comments in there.

filemo is a pretty easy one, though. Just type in a url on filemo that does not exist so that it generates a 404 page. You will notice a custom 404 generated by the script, and they forgot to change the link back to the main site on that page, so it goes to another site instead- which happens to be the homepage for a software that creates filesharing sites.

 

[schindyguy]

Look for <img src="uniquefilename.gif" /> tags and you can either use tineye or google image/web search on the filename.ext to see if there are other copies elsewhere.

Follow the links to the included css, js files (usually you can see the source output directly to the browser) and see if there are any revealing comments in there.

filemo is a pretty easy one, though. Just type in a url on filemo that does not exist so that it generates a 404 page. You will notice a custom 404 generated by the script, and they forgot to change the link back to the main site on that page, so it goes to another site instead- which happens to be the homepage for a software that creates filesharing sites.

:evil_laughter: You are a fucking G