##pyfav

pyfav is a Python library that helps you get a favicon for a supplied URL.

Favicons can be annoying to track down because they're commonly located in a handful of different places. pyfav removes the annoyance by handling the details for you -- you supply a URL and pyfav will give you the favicon.

###Exchange a URL for a favicon on disk

The simplest way to get started is to use the download_favicon function,

from pyfav import download_favicon

favicon_saved_at = download_favicon('https://www.python.org/')

You should now see the favicon in your /tmp directory. If you want to control where the favicon gets written to disk,

from pyfav import download_favicon

mkdir /tmp/favicon-downloads

favicon_saved_at = download_favicon('https://www.python.org/', \
	file_prefix='python.org-', target_dir='/tmp/favicon-downloads')

###Get the location

If you'd prefer to handle the writing piece, use the get_favicon_url function,

from pyfav import get_favicon_url

favicon_url = get_favicon_url('https://www.python.org/')

###Install

The easiest to get pyfav is through PIP

pip install pyfav

License

Dual licensed under the MIT license (below) and GPL license.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2013 Matthew Phillips

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