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Did you know that Google provides a free API to retrieve the favicon for any website? (programming.dev)
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[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

/favicon.ico is the only "default" URL. /favicon.ico is 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 for Link headers or <link rel=icon> elements. While URLs like /favicon.png may be popular they aren't part of any actual protocol.

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