favicon-thief
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Find the best favicon for a given URL.
Powers https://websktop.com.
npm install favicon-thief --save
getFaviconsUses findFavicons to get all favicons that represent given URL. Uses node-fetch & puppeteer to crawl webpages.
It's a wrapper for findFavicons that provides fetch implementations.
import { getFavicons } from 'favicon-thief';
const favicons = await getFavicons('https://websktop.com');
console.log(JSON.stringify(favicons, null, 2));
// [
// {
// "sizes": [
// {
// "width": 144,
// "height": 144
// }
// ],
// "source": "html",
// "url": "https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/25bf5aae/img/favicon_144x144.png"
// },
// {
// "sizes": [
// {
// "width": 96,
// "height": 96
// }
// ],
// "source": "html",
// "url": "https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/25bf5aae/img/favicon_96x96.png"
// },
// {
// "sizes": [
// {
// "width": 48,
// "height": 48
// }
// ],
// "source": "html",
// "url": "https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/25bf5aae/img/favicon_48x48.png"
// },
// {
// "sizes": [
// {
// "width": 32,
// "height": 32
// }
// ],
// "source": "html",
// "url": "https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/25bf5aae/img/favicon_32x32.png"
// },
// {
// "sizes": [],
// "source": "html",
// "url": "https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/25bf5aae/img/favicon.ico"
// },
// {
// "sizes": [],
// "source": "guess",
// "url": "https://www.youtube.com/favicon.ico"
// },
// {
// "sizes": [],
// "source": "guess",
// "url": "https://youtube.com/favicon.ico"
// }
// ]
findFaviconsFinds all favicons that represent given URL.
import { findFavicons } from 'favicon-thief';
const myFetch = async (url: string): string => {
// bring your own fetching implementation - turn `url` into html here
return {
data: '<html><head><link rel="icon" href="icon.png" sizes="160x160"></head></html>',
url, // return different url if there was a redirect
};
};
const favicons = await findFavicons('http://example.com', myFetch);
console.log(JSON.stringify(favicons, null, 2));
// [
// {
// "sizes": [
// {
// "width": 160,
// "height": 160
// }
// ],
// "source": "html",
// "url": "http://example.com/icon.png"
// },
// {
// "sizes": [],
// "source": "guess",
// "url": "http://example.com/favicon.ico"
// }
// ]
FAQs
Find the best favicon for a given URL.
We found that favicon-thief demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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