favicon is a Python library to find a website's favicon.
pip install faviconGet 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.pngRequest 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)