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Ecommerce Platform Profiler MCP server
by mambalabsdev
Your AI can look at a store's website and tell you which ecommerce platform it runs on and more.
This is a small helper that lets your AI look at a shop's website and report back what it runs on. Give it a company domain and it tells you the ecommerce platform, the payment providers, whether the shop sells subscriptions, and roughly how many products it lists. It is handy for sales research, competitor checks, or anyone who wants a quick read on a store without clicking around.
What is an MCP server? The 30-second version
On its own, your AI can only chat with you. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill or a connection to an app or service. This one connects your AI to a service called Apify, which does the actual website reading, so your AI can check a storefront for you when you ask. You just type a question, and the helper goes off and brings back the answer.
What this MCP server does
You ask your AI something like which platform a store uses. Your AI passes the domain to this helper. The helper sends the request to Apify, which reads the store's homepage, its sitemap, and optionally its public cart page. Apify sends back a single row of results, and the helper hands it to your AI unchanged. Your AI then shows you the platform, the payment providers, and the other details in the chat.
What you can do with it
- Find out which ecommerce platform a store runs on
- See which payment providers a storefront loads
- Check whether a store sells subscriptions
- Estimate how many products a store lists
- Look at the public cart page for extra payment providers
- Get a confidence level and the evidence behind each detection
- Cap how much a single lookup can cost
Try asking your AI
- “What ecommerce platform does allbirds.com run on?”
- “Profile gymshark.com and include the payment providers loaded on the cart page.”
- “Does this storefront sell subscriptions, and roughly how many products does it list?”
- “Check the platform for this domain but fail fast if the site blocks us.”
What it gives back to you
You get one flat row of results for the company, with 22 simple fields. It shows the platform, how confident the detection is and what evidence it came from, the payment providers, subscription and marketplace flags, a product count estimate, and a fetch status. Your AI can read that row out to you as a short summary or show it as a table.
Before you start
What you need
- An Apify account with an API token (Apify is the service that does the website reading; you get the token for free from your Apify account page)
- Node.js 18 or newer installed on your computer
- The Claude desktop app or another tool that can use MCP servers
Good to know
Each lookup costs money on your Apify account, so set a cost cap if you plan to check many domains.
Install it with your AI
Add Ecommerce Platform Profiler MCP server to your AI, no technical skills needed
You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.
Sign in to get the install prompt
Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check Ecommerce Platform Profiler MCP server, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,609 MCP servers here for you.
Who it's for
Sales, marketing, and competitive research people who want a fast read on a store's setup without visiting it by hand.
