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Favicon Downloader & Extractor (Grab .ico, .png, .svg)

Instantly extract and download favicons from any website. Grabs high-res Apple Touch Icons, shortcuts, and standard .ico files via deep scraping.

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About

This tool is a specialized extraction engine designed to retrieve the semantic identity assets - specifically favicon and touch-icon resources - from any publicly accessible web domain. Unlike basic grabbers that guess the location, this engine parses the Document Object Model (DOM) to find declared <link> relationships.

Favicons are critical for User Experience (UX) and brand recognition within browser tabs and bookmarks. Modern web standards allow for various formats including (PNG), (SVG), and the legacy (ICO). This tool normalizes relative paths, bypasses Cross-Origin (CORS) restrictions using proxy routing, and verifies asset integrity before presenting the download options.

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Formulas

The extractor scans the HTML document for the following standard link definitions:

{
<link rel="icon" href="/path.png"/><link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/app.png"/><meta content="/og-image.jpg" property="og:image"/>

If explicit tags are missing, it attempts to resolve the standard root path:

Location = concat(Domain, "/favicon.ico")

Reference Data

Rel AttributePurposeTypical Size (px)Format
iconStandard browser tab icon16x16, 32x32.ico, .png
shortcut iconLegacy support (IE)16x16.ico
apple-touch-iconiOS Home Screen180x180.png
mask-iconSafari Pinned TabVector.svg
fluid-iconMac OS Dock512x512.png
manifestAndroid/PWA Icon Definitions192x192, 512x512.json ref

Frequently Asked Questions

Some websites block automated scraping or use non-standard implementation methods (like injecting icons via JavaScript). This tool uses a fallback strategy leveraging public indices (Google/DuckDuckGo) to ensure you almost always get a result, even if the direct scrape is blocked.
For modern browsers, SVG is superior due to infinite scalability. However, a 32x32 PNG is the most compatible standard. The .ico format is largely legacy but still required for older versions of Internet Explorer.
Most icons are square (1:1). If an icon is 192x192, the ratio is 1. If you see a rectangular image (e.g., 1200x630), it is likely an Open Graph social sharing image, not a favicon.
This is usually due to CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) policies on the source server preventing direct downloads. The tool attempts to proxy the request, but strict server security configurations can sometimes block even proxied attempts.