favicon

favicon is a Python library to find a website’s favicon.

Installation

pip install favicon

Usage

Get all icons:

>>> import favicon
>>> icons = favicon.get('https://www.python.org/')
Icon(url='https://www.python.org/static/apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png', width=144, height=144, format='png')
Icon(url='https://www.python.org/static/apple-touch-icon-114x114-precomposed.png', width=114, height=114, format='png')
Icon(url='https://www.python.org/static/apple-touch-icon-72x72-precomposed.png', width=72, height=72, format='png')
Icon(url='https://www.python.org/static/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png', width=0, height=0, format='png')
Icon(url='https://www.python.org/static/favicon.ico', width=0, height=0, format='ico')

Download largest icon:

import requests
import favicon

icons = favicon.get('https://www.python.org/')
icon = icons[0]

response = requests.get(icon.url, stream=True)
with open('/tmp/python-favicon.{}'.format(icon.format), 'wb') as image:
    for chunk in response.iter_content(1024):
        image.write(chunk)

# /tmp/python-favicon.png

Request library parameters can be passed to favicon.get() as keyword arguments:

import favicon

user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.47 Safari/537.36'
headers = {'User-Agent': user_agent}
favicon.get('https://www.python.org/', headers=headers, timeout=2)

Requirements

Inspiration

Changelog

0.7.0 (2019-08-31)

Handle empty href and content attribute values (#22).
Support passing request library parameters to favicon.get() (#21).
- Deprecate headers argument. Use keyword arguments: favicon.get(url, headers={‘User-Agent’; ‘my-agent’}.

0.6.0 (2019-08-10)

Upgrade beautifulsoup4 and requests package dependencies.

0.5.1 (2018-11-05)

Fix ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘lower’ for meta tags (#16).

0.5.0 (2018-11-05)

Add support for meta tags (#15).
Set bs4 parser to html.parser (#13).
Use src package structure (#11).

0.4.1 (2018-10-01)

Update requirements.txt and dev-requirements.txt.

0.4.0 (2018-07-19)

Add support for Python 2.7 and PyPy.
Get icon size for New York Times (#9).

0.3.0 (2018-05-18)

Fav icon not found for microsoft.com (#7).

0.2.0 (2018-05-17)

Handle poor html values in links (#5).
Use given website for icon url scheme (#6).

0.1.0 (2018-05-07)

First release.

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