Faviconr

Service (and a Node express app) for resolving favicons for a given URL.

It tries to lookup /favicon.ico (following redirects) and if nothing found then it fetches the URL and parses HTML to find a <link rel="icon" ... > element.

Usage as a service

Service is deployed at http://faviconr.qp.pe so you can just cURL it with url as GET parameter:

% curl http://faviconr.qp.pe/?url=http://google.com

The faviconr repository is ready to be deployed as Heroku or Dokku service.

Usage as a library

Faviconr is designed as a reusable express application so you can embed this functionality inside your own app like this:

var express = require('express');
var faviconr = require('faviconr');

var app = express();
app.use('/api/favicon', faviconr());
...
app.listen(8000);

Now your app will resolve favicons at http://localhost:8000/api/favicon:

% curl http://localhost:8000/api/favicon?url=http://google.com