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Did you know that Google provides a free API to retrieve the favicon for any website?
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Why would you ever want to route your request like this through a third party especially an ad company? To get the favicon of a site you just request
www.example.com/favicon.ico.It doesn’t have to be an
*.icofile. So you might need to try different file extensions./favicon.icois the only "default" URL./favicon.icois usually not an actual "icon" type anymore but PNG or JPG (but with the same URL). Other than that you need to load the HTML and check forLinkheaders or<link rel=icon>elements. While URLs like/favicon.pngmay be popular they aren't part of any actual protocol.