favicon 0.7.0

Get a website's 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

• requests

• beautifulsoup4

Inspiration

• pyfav

• besticon

• How to get high resolution website logo (favicon) for a given URL

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.