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BnF

Who runs BnF, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest national library alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Biblioteca Nacional de España

Measured from BnF’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs BnF

BnF bnf.fr

Wikidata: national library of France in Paris

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What BnF tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on BnF’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to BnF

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to BnF match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what BnF adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 9 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,217
Vector: 384-d
Query: 80 ms

Built with

CMS: Drupal header x-generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://www.bnf.fr/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js?v=3.5.1
CSS & UI: Bootstrap asset https://www.bnf.fr/themes/contrib/bootstrap/js/drupal.bootstrap.js?to1xoy
CDN: jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/flatpickr@4.6.3/dist/flatpickr.min.css
Web servers: Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
Languages & backends: PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org))
Email hosting: Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms53341810
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=ade4a577e634247a223000e3bec19985cf6e0af34…
DocuSign TXT docusign=d9766897-b170-46cf-80e4-aa7b3aea82d4

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.