blog/src/posts/2020-11-10-favicons.md

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post.html	T.I.L. How to get the favicon of any site	Today I Learnt: How to get the favicon of any site	2020-11-10T09:49:37+01:00	til

If you ever find yourself needing to display a small icon for a 3rd party URL but don't want to have to crawl the site to pull out the favicon URL then you can make use of a Google CDN:

https://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/favicons?domain_url=https://marcusnoble.co.uk/

Example:

You can even provide any page, not just the root URL.

e.g. https://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/favicons?domain_url=https://marcusnoble.co.uk/2020-11-10-t-i-l-how-to-get-the-favicon-of-any-site/