loadfavicon

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loadfavicon

loadfavicon get and download all favicons of given websites, written in go.

Features

• look up all favicons referenced in the of a website, plus the favicon.ico file itself at the root of the website
• returns only valid image files and urls. removes duplicates
• sluggify website names to make a valid disk filename (eg. to put them in cache for example)
• get all favicons or only a single one according to choosen options

• see the documentation to install and use the loadfavicon command
• see the documentation to use the getfavicon package

Install

go install github.com/lolorenzo777/loadfavicon

Requests or bugs?

https://github.com/lolorenzo777/loadfavicon/issues

Licence

Copyright @lolorenzo777 - 2022 May

MIT Licence

References

• https://github.com/lolorenzo777/favicon-cheat-sheet
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

Documentation

Overview

loadfavicon command download all favicons of given websites, written in go.

loadfavicon <website> <destination_directory> [--single]

Set the flags [--single] to select and download only one favicon if severals have been found.

Examples

Some example to run the favicon command

# https://go.dev has a single favicon file, an .ico, download it into ./myfavicons dir
# ./myfavicons will be created if does not exists
$ loadfavicon https://go.dev ./myfavicons

# https://www.docker.com/ has multiple icons, download all
$ loadfavicon https://www.docker.com/ ./myfavicons

# https://github.com has multiple icons, download the best one
$ loadfavicon https://github.com ./myfavicons --single

Then your “./myfavicons“ dir should looks like this:

• ./
• ../
• github-com+pinned-octocat.svg
• go-dev+favicon.ico
• www-docker-com+cropped-Docker-R-Logo-08-2018-Monochomatic-RGB_Moby-x1-180x180.png
• www-docker-com+cropped-Docker-R-Logo-08-2018-Monochomatic-RGB_Moby-x1-192x192.png
• www-docker-com+cropped-Docker-R-Logo-08-2018-Monochomatic-RGB_Moby-x1-32x32.png
• www-docker-com+favicon.ico

Install

Since Go 1.16 downloading and installing a go programs is very simple:

go install github.com/lolorenzo777/loadfavicon