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Re:Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a Wor... by tyingq on Friday April 14, 2017 @06:50PM (#14118024)
Looks like it might be using some pattern matching that could be tightened up a bit.

For example:

http://wpdetective.io/wordpress.org

That trips it up a bit with false positives, finding plugins that aren't plugins.

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Re:Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a Wor... by codeaken on Friday April 14, 2017 @06:55PM (#14118042)
When pattern matching goes wrong... Good find, we will fix this, thanks! :)
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Re:Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a Wor... by tyingq on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:16PM (#14118153)
It has the look of using regex against raw page html.

I would guess you'd have better luck parsing the html and extracting the href attributes of any <link> tags, src attributes of <script> tags, etc. Then pattern matching only against that.

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