Detect Wagtail

Detect whether a site or page is built with Wagtail.

Usage

You can run the detection with:

• The online website, detect-wagtail.netlify.app.
• A bookmarket, also available from detect-wagtail.netlify.app.
• A browser extension thanks to Wappalyzer.
• A Node CLI, also thanks to Wappalyzer.
• As an npm package for more custom needs, detect-wagtail

How it works

This uses regular expressions to check whether images on the page match a predetermined pattern. Here is a simplified diagram of the logic (created with regexper):

There can be false positives with such a simple check, but it has the benefit of working regardless of whether the target site is directly served by Wagtail, or if Wagtail is used as a headless CMS.

Related links

• Wappalyzer
• WhatCMS.org
• detect-django-version