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Did you know that Google provides a free API to retrieve the favicon for any website? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@FrostyPolicy

Not necessarily. You need to fetch the HTML of the web page you want the icon for and see if there's a <link rel=icon> or equivalent HTTP header.

And yes, this means different pages on the same site can have different icons.

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[–] m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net 6 points 2 months ago

@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi @Pro@programming.dev
AFAIK there's also a special file name Safari uses for bigger PNG icons. That Google thing probably just facilitates all this machinery, but I agree — I wouldn't rely on Google for such things myself.