Ask HN: How to identify a website built with Bootstrap?

7 points by prakster 12y ago ↗ HN

I tried doing a "View source", but couldn't figure out how to definitively know whether a given website built with Bootstrap or not. (Also tried a Google search before posting on HN.)

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hardwaresofton 12y ago ↗

Markup is the way to go, look at classes of buttons, divs and spans. Look for -lg or spans and stuff like that.

That... and you could open up the dev console

YoAdrian 12y ago ↗

View source and look for a CSS file named something like "bootstrap".

fmikhail 12y ago ↗

Usually this is the best way.If the bootstrap.css has been renamed you can download bootstrap.css (or minified version) file,open css file in the website source, then [Ctrl+F]+[Ctrl+V].

sganesh 12y ago ↗

Checkout http://builtwith.com. If the css is not renamed, merged or minified it will be listed in the technologies used. Else, you have to do the one of the other suggestions here.

ivanbrussik 12y ago ↗

I'd also like to suggest a really cool browser plugin called Wappalyzer. Its really good (ok, kind of decent) at guessing the platforum of a website and will even guess plugins, frameworks, CMS, web server and I think sometimes even host.

richbradshaw 12y ago ↗

A mildly decent way is to check for `span[0-9]+` or the newer `col-` whatever classes. A site using classes of `container` and the ones previously mentioned probably has a 80%+ chance of using the bootstrap grid.