How to download favicon from website?

Question

When you browse a website, the "favicon" icon shows up in the tab or next to the URL (or next to the bookmark).

If I want that graphic, is there a way to download it directly from the site? I'd prefer to download it directly from the web, but if all else fails, I'll dig it out of wherever it is stored on my computer (Windows 7, Firefox 3.6.6).

Answer 1

Studiohack has the "thorough" approach but heres a short hack:

1. Enter the domain name like https://superuser.com/(must end with '/')
2. Add favicon.ico to the end
3. Press enter (this should be in the URL: https://superuser.com/favicon.ico)
4. Right click on the image and click "save image as"

Answer 2

by reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon you can also find that:

The following format is cross-browser compatible and is supported by Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.[3]

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.example.com/myicon.ico" />

Additionally the following is also acceptable:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/somepath/myicon.ico" />

The following shows the supported format of link tags, using examples, for HTML and XHTML.

HTML:

<link rel="icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" href="http://example.com/image.ico"> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://example.com/image.png"> <link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="http://example.com/image.gif">

So, the common practice is indeed to put a file called 'favicon.ico' on the root folder, but to be sure, you have to lookup the source code of the served file and see if and what is defined there.

eg, for http://superuser.com it is

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://sstatic.net/su/favicon.ico"> 

Answer 3

You can't always add /favicon.ico (eg. https://superuser.com/favicon.ico)
All of the answers are more complicated than necessary.

All you do is what is written here: http://www.itechcolumn.com/4-way-download-favicon-website/

1. Go to the target site.
2. View the page source (Right click on the page and click on "View Page source") - using firefox, may be slightly different in other browsers.
3. Search (Ctrl+F) for "shortcut icon"

4. You should see something like this:

   link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.sitename.com/images/thenameofthefavicon.ico"/>

5. Right click on the link http://www.sitename.com/images/favicon.ico and save the icon. Or, open the page using the URL and save the page.

Answer 4

You can do this using Google S2 converter.

Here is the syntax : http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=DomainName

ex: http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=https://superuser.com/

Answer 5

None of the previous answers worked for me as the site I needed the icon from was an internal site, did not expose it in the source, and did not allow appending /favicon.ico so I dug a bit more.

Chrome can reliably pull the favicon using this solution:

1. Visit the site you want the favicon for
2. Add 'chrome://favicon/' before the sites url.
   • example: chrome://favicon/https://google.com
3. Right click on image
4. Save image as...

Answer 6

In Firefox 3: Click the favicon, a popup appears, and you can click "more information"...in the window that pops up, go to the "Media" tab. Highlight the specific media item that you want (it shows a preview in the large, white space in the bottom of the window), then click "Save As". Give it a name, pick a location, and you're done! :)

Some sites may not have a favicon listed, but some will...hit or miss...try this on Super User...SU has a favicon listed...

Answer 7

If you have JavaScript enabled, you could run this in the console :

(function() {
    var i=0;
    var arrLink = [];
    var found = 0;
    arrLink = document.getElementsByTagName('link');
    if (arrLink.length > 0) {
        for (i=0; i < arrLink.length; i++) {
            if (typeof arrLink[i].rel !== 'undefined' && arrLink[i].rel.indexOf('icon') > -1) {
                found = 1;
                window.open(arrLink[i].href);
            }
        }
        if (found === 0) {
            alert('favico Not Found');
        }
    } else {
        alert('favico Not Found');
    }
})();

Alternatively use the below code as a bookmark / paste in the URL :

javascript:(function(){var a=0,b=[],c=0,b=document.getElementsByTagName("link");if(0<b.length){for(a=0;a<b.length;a++)"undefined"!==typeof b[a].rel&&-1<b[a].rel.indexOf("icon")&&(c=1,window.open(b[a].href));0===c&&alert("favico Not Found")}else alert("favico Not Found")})();

Answer 8

No need for all that PHP crap.

All you need to do in Firefox is click the ico image in the URL, click "More Information", then click the "Media" button. Favicon.ico is usually the first one in the list and already highlighted, but if it isn't, scroll down and then click the "Save As" button.

By the way, since Firefox 16, ico images don't display in the URL field anymore, but do in each tab and can be grabbed in the same way.

Answer 9

Try this bit of PHP which grabs the favicon and saves it as an .ico file. You could probably use this to grab almost any file. Note the use of the 'b' for 'binary' flag.

<?php
    echo '<p>Fetching Favicon.ico.</p>';
    $in = fopen('http://targetdomain.com/favicon.ico', 'rb');
    $contents = '';
    while (!feof($in)) {
        $contents .= fread($in, 8192);
        }
    fclose($in);
    $len = strlen($contents);
    echo '<p>Read ' . $len . ' bytes.</p>';

    $out = fopen('favicon.ico', 'wb');
    fwrite($out, $contents, $len);
    fclose($out);
    echo '<p>Written Favicon.ico.</p>';
?>

Answer 10

The favicon url maybe different from www.example.com/favicon.ico.

Simply right click on page and click on View Page Source, then you can find the favicon link in head tag!

e.g. :

<link href="/MyFavicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" rel="shortcut icon"/>

Answer 11

just copy the url from the address bar and take the website and right-click and select view source or on the address bar type:view-source:website address.If you want to get the icon of facebook,just type, view-source:http://www.facebook.com and just press Ctrl and F together and type .ico and you will see a link.In that there will be a text with .ico highlighted with green color.Press that link.You will see the icon.Right click > Save Image As and then give name and save it.