What technologies are under your site • Hacker News Board

Re: What technologies are under your site

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Post by arkitaip » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 3:48 AM UTC

tectonic wrote: post #14

arkitaip wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried ColdFusion powered metafilter and it reported nothing.

Please add a matcher for ColdFusion - I don't know it, but this is a wiki, so anyone can add it.

I just understood the concept of tech matcher, which could be an incredibly powerful concept. I think you should highlight this more.

Re: What technologies are under your site

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Post by bstar » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 3:48 AM UTC

So yahoo.com is using jQuery now? There's like 10 references to YUI and zero for jQuery in the source... interesting algorithm.

Re: What technologies are under your site

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Post by JoshTriplett » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 3:54 AM UTC

I love this. I particularly like the broad definition of "technologies", and the variety of ways to write matchers.

More importantly, I like that users can easily add their own technologies and matchers.

Re: What technologies are under your site

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Post by a3_nm » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 3:57 AM UTC

I love how it gets confused by Hacker News: http://underthesite.com/sites/news.ycombinator.com

Re: What technologies are under your site

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Post by kingkilr » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 3:59 AM UTC

Interesting, but seems a little primitive compared to the cleverness in https://github.com/mitsuhiko/probe

Re: What technologies are under your site

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Post by aphexairlines » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 4:05 AM UTC

This doesn't really tell you anything about a site. Most of the interesting stuff happens on the server side.

Re: What technologies are under your site

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Post by JoshTriplett » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 4:12 AM UTC

What triggers the error message "The pattern that you entered appears to be too general - can you make it more specific for this technology?"? I tried to add a technology for the use of rel="nofollow", using an XPath expression //a/@rel[contains(., "nofollow")] , and got that error message. What do I need to do to make it more specific?

Re: What technologies are under your site

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Post by tectonic » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 4:12 AM UTC

kingkilr wrote: post #25

Interesting, but seems a little primitive compared to the cleverness in https://github.com/mitsuhiko/probe

Does probe try and fetch signal urls? (Like admin pages.). UnderTheSite.com makes a point of only looking at data that would normally be fetched by your browser. Probing a site for urls could be considered offensive.

Re: What technologies are under your site

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Post by tectonic » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 4:13 AM UTC

JoshTriplett wrote: post #27

What triggers the error message "The pattern that you entered appears to be too general - can you make it more specific for this technology?"? I tried to add a technology for the use of rel="nofollow", using an XPath expression //a/@rel[contains(., "nofollow")] , and got that error message. What do I need to do to make it more specific?

Good question, I think rel=nofollow must match too many websites. I'll look into it.

Re: What technologies are under your site

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Post by jbhelms » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 4:14 AM UTC

tectonic wrote: post #10

Hey guys, I made this site and just gave a talk about it at SHDH. Someone must have submitted it. Thanks for all your feedback, I really appreciate it!

It incorrectly stated that my site uses cold fusion.