From 38e5926d0d17878504d672b76bcfb33e8e5cb182 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcus Noble <averagemarcus@noreply.git.cluster.fun>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:57:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add 'content/posts/favicons.md'

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+---
+title: "How to get favicon of any site"
+date: 2020-11-10T12:49:37+01:00
+draft: false
+tags:
+images:
+- /images/favicons.gif
+---
+
+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://www.bbc.co.uk/
+```
+
+Example: ![](https://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/favicons?domain_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/)
+
+You can even provide