Information about wordpress API

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  asgmehra · Member · May 3, 2021 at 7:41 pm

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  Hi, I want to build a WordPress theme detector functionality like this website (https://www.wpthemedetector.com/). How can I start? Which API they are using?
  Please help! Thanks!

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 4, 2021 at 7:26 am

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  Hi there,

  You’re posting in the support forums for the hosting provider, WordPress.com. For questions regarding the open source WordPress software, please ask the WordPress.org community who makes that software instead:

  https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

  That said, if I had to guess that page is simply scraping the source code of the site and looking at the wp-content/themes folder to see what theme is loading in the browser. An API is used to interact with data in the site’s database, and I don’t think it contains any info about what theme is installed on a site.

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  asgmehra · Member · May 4, 2021 at 5:40 pm

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  Thanks kokkieh for the information. I’ll try with scraping.