Get favicons list from a website

scrap-favicon

Get favicon urls without downloading it along with its meta information using scrap-favicon

Introduction

The main aim of this package is to greedily fetch/scrap all the favicons and their dimensions without downloading it completely. (a few chunks can give correct dimensions).

1. This package scraps/fetch the favicon from the website in two steps:
   1. Check the meta information declared.
   2. Add default favicon url (/favicon.ico & /apple-touch-icon.png) and check if resource present.
2. Download each url in chunks just to obtain favicon dimensions information using image-size package.

Install

$ npm install scrap-favicon

Usage

const scrapFavicon = require('scrap-favicon');
 
// Fetching all meta information of favicon
scrapFavicon('https://akansh.com').then(resp => console.log(resp), err => console.error(err));
 
// Fetching only urls of favicon
scrapFavicon('https://akansh.com', {
    urlsOnly: true
}).then(resp => console.log(resp), err => console.error(err));
 
// Setting timeout(ms) and number of redirects for website url
scrapFavicon('https://akansh.com', {
    timeout: 10000,
    maxRedirect: 2
}).then(resp => console.log(resp), err => console.error(err));

You can check examples here.

API

scrapFavicon(url, config?)

url

Type: string

A url of the website whose favicon details needs to be scrapped

config

Type: object

urlsOnly

Type: Boolean
Default: false

Returns only the list of the urls without meta information of favicon

timeout

Type: Number
Default: 100000

Number of milliseconds before waiting for website url to be fetched PS: In case of redirect, each redirected url will have its own timeout

maxRedirects

Type: Number
Default: 10

Max number of redirects allowed before reaching to website url due to 301 or 302 redirects

Example

const scrapFavicon = require('scrap-favicon');
 
// Fetching all meta information of favicon
scrapFavicon('https://akansh.com').then(resp => console.log(resp), err => console.error(err));
/*
Result -> 
{   
    redirects: 
     [{ url: 'https://www.akansh.com/',
         timeTaken: 1140.6958409547806      // ms taken to redirect  
      }],
    images: 
     [ { url: 'https://www.akansh.com/icons/icon-48x48.png',
         scrapped: true,        // true means it has been scrapped from the website
         width: 48,             // width of the favicon image
         height: 48,            // height of the favicon image
         type: 'png',           // type of the favicon e.g. jpg, png, ico
         chunkSize: 1447,       // the size downloaded to find the meta information of the image 
         success: true },     
       { url: 'https://www.akansh.com/favicon.ico',
         scrapped: false,       // false means it was not declared on website but still available
         width: 439,
         height: 439,
         type: 'svg',
         chunkSize: 81676,
         success: true },
       { url: 'https://www.akansh.com/apple-touch-icon.png',
         scrapped: false,
         width: 439,
         height: 439,
         type: 'svg',
         chunkSize: 81676,
         success: true } ],
    timeTaken: 2341.6667330265045 
}
 
*/