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mobibob
mobibob

Reputation: 8794

How can I retrieve the favicon of a website with XSLT or JSP?

I want to list featured websites on my website and I thought it would be cool to honor and use their favicon. How do I get it from the domain for an arbitrary URL in either JSP or XSLT? I can fire off PHP or javascript, but XSLT is the preferred methodology.

Upvotes: 28

Views: 59233

Answers (6)

nLL
nLL

Reputation: 5672

You could use Google's cache of the favicon:

https://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/favicons?domain_url=https://example.com

Upvotes: 82

Daniel Vassallo
Daniel Vassallo

Reputation: 344431

To get the favicon of a website, you need to load the index HTML of each featured website and check for either of the following:

HTML:

<link rel="icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" href="http://example.com/image.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://example.com/image.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="http://example.com/image.gif">

XHTML:

<link rel="icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" href="/somepath/image.ico" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/somepath/image.png" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="/somepath/image.gif" />

Internet Explorer may use a slightly different format:

<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.example.com/myicon.ico" />

Also note that since most web browsers do not require the HTML link to retrieve a favicon, you should also check for favicon.ico in the website's document root, if none of the above link references are found.

With PHP, it is easy to get the HTML contents of a web page by using file_get_contents($url):

$url = 'http://www.exmaple.com';
$output = file_get_contents($url);

Upvotes: 29

user11302523
user11302523

Reputation: 1

  • Using IE, bookmark the site

  • Drag the shortcut from your bookmarks menu onto your desktop

  • Open the resulting .URL using a (real) text editor

  • There will be a line in the file for IconFile, which will point to the favicon file on the web server

  • Browse to the file... viola!

Upvotes: 0

Prem Sanil
Prem Sanil

Reputation: 128

Open the page source code (right click View page source) find the below mentioned line, click the images/favicon.png link.

<link rel="icon" href="images/favicon.png" type="image/png" sizes="16x16">

Upvotes: -1

Rublacava
Rublacava

Reputation: 519

For Firefox you could use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/httpfox/. Load a website then press F10 > ... > "open HttpFox in own Window" then look for "image/x-icon"; in the column to the right is the URL.

Upvotes: 0

yPhil
yPhil

Reputation: 8377

Here is my attempt at it. It uses various strategies to work around the many possible cases :

<?
/*
  nws-favicon : Get site's favicon using various strategies

  This script is part of NWS
  https://github.com/xaccrocheur/nws/

*/


function CheckImageExists($imgUrl) {
    if (@GetImageSize($imgUrl)) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    };
};

function getFavicon ($url) {

$fallback_favicon = "/var/www/favicon.ico";    
// $fallback_favicon = "http://stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico";


    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    @$dom->loadHTML($url);
    $links = $dom->getElementsByTagName('link');
    $l = $links->length;
    $favicon = "/favicon.ico";
    for( $i=0; $i<$l; $i++) {
        $item = $links->item($i);
        if( strcasecmp($item->getAttribute("rel"),"shortcut icon") === 0) {
            $favicon = $item->getAttribute("href");
            break;
        }
    }

    $u = parse_url($url);

    $subs = explode( '.', $u['host']);
    $domain = $subs[count($subs) -2].'.'.$subs[count($subs) -1];

    $file = "http://".$domain."/favicon.ico";
    $file_headers = @get_headers($file);

    if($file_headers[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found' || $file_headers[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 404 NOT FOUND' || $file_headers[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently') {

        $fileContent = @file_get_contents("http://".$domain);

        $dom = @DOMDocument::loadHTML($fileContent);
        $xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);

        $elements = $xpath->query("head/link//@href");

        $hrefs = array();

        foreach ($elements as $link) {
            $hrefs[] = $link->value;
        }

        $found_favicon = array();
        foreach ( $hrefs as $key => $value ) {
            if( substr_count($value, 'favicon.ico') > 0 ) {
                $found_favicon[] = $value;
                $icon_key = $key;
            }
        }

        $found_http = array();
        foreach ( $found_favicon as $key => $value ) {
            if( substr_count($value, 'http') > 0 ) {
                $found_http[] = $value;
                $favicon = $hrefs[$icon_key];
                $method = "xpath";
            } else {
                $favicon = $domain.$hrefs[$icon_key];
                if (substr($favicon, 0, 4) != 'http') {
                    $favicon = 'http://' . $favicon;
                    $method = "xpath+http";
                }
            }
        }

        if (isset($favicon)) {
            if (!CheckImageExists($favicon)) {
                $favicon = $fallback_favicon;
                $method = "fallback";
            }
        } else {
            $favicon = $fallback_favicon;
            $method = "fallback";
        }

    } else {
        $favicon = $file;
        $method = "classic";

        if (!CheckImageExists($file)) {
            $favicon = $fallback_favicon;
            $method = "fallback";
        }

    }
    return $favicon;
}

?>

Upvotes: 1

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