Crate website_icon_extract

This library connects to a given url and tries to find references to icons that represent the page. Multiple standards are used for this:

• default favicon.ico in root and as "link rel" wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
• apple touch icon Apple docs
• Open graph image ogp.me
• Windows 8 tile images Microsoft technet

All images are converted to absolute urls and checked if connecting to them works. It does a GET request, but closes the connection after the http header.

Functions

extract_icons

Download and analyze a html page from http/https url. Return all found icon urls.