Does anybody know of a free website where I can enter a URL and get the favicon and apple touch icons (all resolutions) from a site?
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Extract icons from websites
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For favicons, you can use Google's cache of favicons: http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=domain where the bolded "domain" is the domain of the site. If Google hasn't crawled the site or something unusual is set up, it will just display a generic globe icon.
If that solution doesn't work for you, you can also use the developer tools in your preferred browser. In Safari, for example, you can enable them via Safari » Preferences » Advanced » Show Develop in menu bar, then go to Develop » Show Page Resources. The panel that appears will show various resources loaded on the current page. The images section is likely to have what you're looking for.
Additionally, favicons and Apple touch icons are often uploaded to the root directory of a website with their standard filenames, so that may be another way for you to find them.
If that solution doesn't work for you, you can also use the developer tools in your preferred browser. In Safari, for example, you can enable them via Safari » Preferences » Advanced » Show Develop in menu bar, then go to Develop » Show Page Resources. The panel that appears will show various resources loaded on the current page. The images section is likely to have what you're looking for.
Additionally, favicons and Apple touch icons are often uploaded to the root directory of a website with their standard filenames, so that may be another way for you to find them.
Thanks for your reply. I am aware of both those methods.
The Google option only pulls low res versions.
The page Resources options has it's own problems. It's fiddly and sometimes doesn't have the icons listed even if they exist.
I was hoping for a website that would just automatically extract them for me.
The Google option only pulls low res versions.
The page Resources options has it's own problems. It's fiddly and sometimes doesn't have the icons listed even if they exist.
I was hoping for a website that would just automatically extract them for me.
Would the app SiteSucker (on the Mac App Store) do the trick?
http://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html