shaklain125 / gicon

Grab favicons of sites using Google's favicon api.

Gicon

Grab favicons of sites using Google's favicon api.

Why?

Google's favicon api contains redirects which means that not all application will be able to follow the redirects and acquire the favicons of the desired sites. This is a proxy that grabs the favicon of a site by following the redirects and responds with a single HTTP response.

Usage

Api endpoints

• https://gicon.vercel.app/?{param}={value}
• https://gicon.netlify.app/.netlify/functions/api?{param}={value}

Param	Value	Description
url	string	The site url or domain
sz	number	The size of the favicon e.g. 16, 32, 64, 128, 256. Default is 256. Note that it may not reach the exact size.

Examples

https://gicon.vercel.app/?url=google.com

https://gicon.vercel.app/?url=https://www.github.com

https://gicon.vercel.app/?sz=64&url=netlify.com

https://gicon.netlify.app/.netlify/functions/api?sz=128&url=youtube.com

https://gicon.netlify.app/.netlify/functions/api?url=google.com

Libraries

• Express
• Serverless-http
• Axios