pyfavicon

Async favicon fetcher

Requirements

• Python 3.7
• aiohttp
• beautifulsoup4
• Pillow

How to use

from pyfavicon import Favicon
import asyncio
from pathlib import Path


async def download_favicon():
    favicon_manager = Favicon(download_dir=Path('.'), 
                             headers={'DNT': '1'})

    icons = await favicon_manager.from_url('https://gitlab.com')
    # icons = await favicon_manager.from_file('my_html_file.html')
    # icons = await avicon_manager.from_html('<link rel="icon" href="favicon.png">')
    for icon in icons:
        # We use PIL to get the exact size of images.
        print("Favicon from : {}".format(icon.link))
        print("Favicon export name : {}".format(icon.path))
        print("Favicon size : {}".format(icon.size))
        print("Favicon format: {}".format(icon.extension))
    # Select the largest icon
    largest_icon = icons.get_largest()
    await largest_icon.save()

asyncio.run(download_favicon())

Examples

You can find a bunch of usage examples here:

• Gtk Application