This was a fun experiment, and I used it for a long time on some side projects. But the time has come to put this into archive mode and call it a day.
There is a good one available here: https://github.com/mat/besticon
I often build dashboards and consoles that link to outside websites, and it is a nice UX perk to see the site's favicon next to the link. As it turns out, not all websites publish their favicon at example.com/favicon.ico, which results in 404 and broken images. I made this little api and script to automatically hunt-down that favicon, and as a last resort, generate one.
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All favicons are stored/cached locally, so you only pay the download penalty once. You can warm-up your cache with a list of domains and a shell script to curl those domains to the favicon API
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Icon generated if there really is no favicon to be found for that domain
There is only one endpoint. http://localhost:8000/?url=example.com
- url: the url of the web page you want the favicon from
This is a really simple app to get started with.
git clone git@bitbucket.org:bkmk/favicon-getter.gitcp docker-compose.sample.yml docker-compose.ymlcp Makefile.sample Makefilecp env.sample env env.prod(one for local and prod if that is your thing)- edit HOST in Makefile of your live endpoint
- check the
docker-compose.ymlsettings (I have some traefik stuff in there)
Personally, I like JetBrain's PyCharm Professional to work in a full debugged environment.
I use docker-compose. See the samples.
- pyfav: a simple Python library that helps you get a favicon for a supplied URL.
- besticon: A favicon service written in Go https://icons.better-idea.org
- favicongrabber.com: A NodeJS app to grab favicons.