======== favicon

favicon is a Python library to find a website's favicon.

Installation

.. code-block:: bash

pip install favicon

Usage

Get all icons:

.. code-block:: python

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:

.. code-block:: python

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.png

Request library <https://2.python-requests.org/>_ parameters can be passed to favicon.get() as keyword arguments:

.. code-block:: python

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)

Requirements

• requests <http://docs.python-requests.org/>_
• beautifulsoup4 <https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/>_

Inspiration

• pyfav <https://github.com/phillipsm/pyfav>_
• besticon <https://github.com/mat/besticon/>_
• How to get high resolution website logo (favicon) for a given URL <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21991044/how-to-get-high-resolution-website-logo-favicon-for-a-given-url>_

Changelog

0.7.0 (2019-08-31)

• Handle empty href and content attribute values (#22 <https://github.com/scottwernervt/favicon/issues/22>_).

• Support passing request library parameters to favicon.get() (#21 <https://github.com/scottwernervt/favicon/issues/21>_).

  • Deprecate headers argument. Use keyword arguments: favicon.get(url, headers={'User-Agent'; 'my-agent'}.

0.6.0 (2019-08-10)

• Upgrade beautifulsoup4 and requests package dependencies.

0.5.1 (2018-11-05)

• Fix 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower' for meta tags (#16 <https://github.com/scottwernervt/favicon/issues/16>_).

0.5.0 (2018-11-05)

• Add support for meta tags (#15 <https://github.com/scottwernervt/favicon/pull/15>_).
• Set bs4 parser to html.parser (#13 <https://github.com/scottwernervt/favicon/issues/13>_).
• Use src package structure (#11 <https://github.com/scottwernervt/favicon/issues/11>_).

0.4.1 (2018-10-01)

• Update requirements.txt and dev-requirements.txt.

0.4.0 (2018-07-19)

• Add support for Python 2.7 and PyPy.
• Get icon size for New York Times (#9 <https://github.com/scottwernervt/favicon/issues/9>_).

0.3.0 (2018-05-18)

• Fav icon not found for microsoft.com (#7 <https://github.com/scottwernervt/favicon/issues/7>_).

0.2.0 (2018-05-17)

• Handle poor html values in links (#5 <https://github.com/scottwernervt/favicon/issues/5>_).
• Use given website for icon url scheme (#6 <https://github.com/scottwernervt/favicon/issues/6>_).

0.1.0 (2018-05-07)

• First release.