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Get favicons from any domain using a hidden google API - DEV Community

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Tags: Google api favicon hidden-web-service dev.to
Clipped on: 2024-07-02

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https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=${domain}&sz=${size}

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https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/dev.to.ico
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https://icon.horse/icon/dev.to
Image (Asset 5/75) alt= I would just state that Icon Horse is not free (but still a very nice tool).

Do you know if duckduckgo supports parameters, such as the size hint for example ?

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http://favicongrabber.com/api/grab/dev.to
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{
  "domain": "dev.to",
  "icons": [
    {
      "sizes": "192x192",
      "src": "https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--t7tVouP9--/c_limit,f_png,fl_progressive,q_80,w_192/https:/practicaldev-herokuapp-com.freetls.fastly.net/assets/devlogo-pwa-512.png"
    },
    ...
}
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{"error":"General API error."}
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my browser's url bar

what's special about those is they didn't build useless crap to farm me for ad revenue. so no thanks, but also no thanks.

 

Thanks for mentioning this ! I created a little cli to expose this api: github.com/pomdtr/fetch-favicon

 

How do you guys mitigate the CORS issue? I tried to use this with fetch API but it's giving me the CORS error for both google and Duckduck go
Technology enthusiast and octopus lover. Coding makes me happy ! Follow me at https://blog.derlin.ch
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