Search favicons from any website using PHP and download favicons file to your server.
If you request a website URL to download favicons file like https://sadedar.com/favicon.php?url=google.com
Write favicon.php file below code.
<?php
$userPath=$_GET['url']; // you can use GET or POST method.
require 'FaviconDownloader.class.php';
$favicon = new FaviconDownloader($userPath);
if($favicon->icoExists){
echo "Favicon found : ".$favicon->icoUrl."\n";
// Saving favicon to file
$filename = 'favicon-'.time().'.'.$favicon->icoType;
file_put_contents($filename, $favicon->icoData);
echo "Saved to ".$filename."\n\n";
} else {
echo "No favicon for ".$favicon->url."\n\n";
}
?> FaviconDownloader.class.php write this code
<?php
/**
* FaviconDownloader
* Find favicon URL and download it easy
* Requirements : PHP 5.2+ with curl extension
* © 2014 www.finalclap.com
* @copyright 2014 Vincent Paré
* @author Vincent Paré
* @link http://www.finalclap.com/
* @version 1
*/
class FaviconDownloader
{
public $url = null; // (string) Page URL
public $pageUrl = null; // (string) Page URL, after prospective redirects
public $siteUrl = null; // (string) Site root URL (homepage), based on $pageUrl
public $icoUrl = null; // (string) full URI to favicon
public $icoType = null; // (string) favicon type (file extension, ex: ico|gif|png)
public $findMethod = null; // (string) favicon url determination method (default /favicon.ico or found in <head> <link/> tag)
public $error = null; // (string) details, in case of failure...
public $icoExists = null; // (bool) tell if the favicon exists (set after calling downloadFavicon)
public $icoMd5 = null; // (string) md5 of $icoData
public $icoData = null; // (binary) favicon binary data
public $debugInfo = null; // (array) additionnal debug info
public static $httpProxy = null; // (string) HTTP proxy (ex: localhost:8888)
/**
* Create a new FaviconDownloader object, search & download favicon if $auto is true
*/ public function __construct($url = null, $auto = true)
{
if(!$url) return;
$this->url = $url;
if(!$auto) return;
$this->getFaviconUrl();
$this->downloadFavicon();
}
/**
* Download page and search html to find favicon URL. Returns favicon URL.
*/ public function getFaviconUrl()
{
// If already executed, don't need to search again
if(!empty($this->icoUrl)){
return $this->icoUrl;
}
// Check URL to search
if(empty($this->url)){
trigger_error('$this->url is empty', E_USER_WARNING);
return false;
}
// Removing fragment (hash) from URL
$url = $this->url;
$urlInfo = parse_url($this->url);
if(isset($urlInfo['fragment'])){
$url = str_replace('#'.$urlInfo['fragment'], '', $url);
}
// Downloading the page
$html = self::downloadAs($url, $info);
if($info['curl_errno'] != 0){
$this->error = $info['curl_error'];
return false;
}
// Saving final URL (after prospective redirects) and get root URL
$this->pageUrl = $info['effective_url'];
$pageUrlInfo = parse_url($this->pageUrl);
if(!empty($pageUrlInfo['scheme']) && !empty($pageUrlInfo['host'])){
$this->siteUrl = $pageUrlInfo['scheme'].'://'.$pageUrlInfo['host'].'/';
}
// Default favicon URL
$this->icoUrl = $this->siteUrl.'favicon.ico';
$this->findMethod = 'default';
// HTML <head> tag extraction
preg_match('#^(.*)<\s*body#isU', $html, $matches);
$htmlHead = isset($matches[1]) ? $matches[1] : $html;
// HTML <base> tag href extraction
$base_href = null;
if(preg_match('#<base[^>]+href=(["\'])([^>]+)#i', $htmlHead, $matches)){
$base_href = rtrim($matches[2],'/').'/';
$this->debugInfo['base_href'] = &$base_href;
}
// HTML <link> icon tag analysis
if(preg_match('#<\s*link[^>]*(rel=(["\'])[^>]*icon[^>]*)[^>]*>#i', $htmlHead, $matches)){
$link_tag = $matches[0];
$this->debugInfo['link_tag'] = &$link_tag;
// HTML <link> icon tag href analysis
if(preg_match('#href\s*=\s*(["\'])(.*?)#i', $link_tag, $matches)){
$ico_href = trim($matches[2]);
$this->debugInfo['ico_href'] = &$ico_href;
$this->findMethod = 'head';
// Building full absolute URL
$urlType = self::urlType($ico_href);
$this->findMethod .= ' '.$urlType;
switch($urlType){
case 'absolue_full':
$this->icoUrl = $ico_href;
break;
case 'absolute_scheme':
$this->icoUrl = $pageUrlInfo['scheme'].':'.$ico_href;
break;
case 'absolute_path':
if(isset($base_href)){
$this->icoUrl = $base_href.$ico_href;
$this->findMethod .= ' with base href';
} else {
$this->icoUrl = rtrim($this->siteUrl, '/').'/'.ltrim($ico_href, '/');
$this->findMethod .= ' without base href';
}
break;
case 'relative':
$path = preg_replace('#/[^/]+?$#i', '/', $pageUrlInfo['path']);
if(isset($base_href)){
$this->icoUrl = $base_href.$ico_href;
$this->findMethod .= ' with base href';
} else {
$this->icoUrl = $pageUrlInfo['scheme'].'://'.$pageUrlInfo['host'].$path.$ico_href;
$this->findMethod .= ' without base href';
}
break;
}
}
}
$this->icoType = self::getExtension($this->icoUrl);
return $this->icoUrl;
}
/**
* Télécharge le favicon (et vérifie son existance au passage)
*/ public function downloadFavicon()
{
// Check params
if(empty($this->icoUrl)){
return false;
}
// Prevent useless re-download
if(!empty($this->icoData)){
return false;
}
// Download favicon
$content = self::downloadAs($this->icoUrl, $info);
$this->debugInfo['favicon_download_metadata'] = $info;
// Failover : if getting a 404 with favicon URL found in HTML source, trying with the default favicon URL
if($content === false && $info['http_code'] == 404 && $this->findMethod != 'default' && !isset($this->debugInfo['failover'])){
$this->icoUrl = $this->siteUrl.'favicon.ico';
$this->findMethod = 'default';
$this->icoType = self::getExtension($this->icoUrl);
$this->debugInfo['failover'] = true;
return $this->downloadFavicon();
}
// Download error
if($content === false){
$this->error = 'HTTP '.$info['http_code'];
return false;
}
// Check favicon content
if(strlen($content) == 0){
$this->error = "Empty content";
return false;
}
if(in_array($info['content_type'], array('text/html', 'text/plain')) || preg_match('#(</html>|</b>)#i', $content)){
$this->error = "Seems to be HTML page";
return false;
}
// All right baby !
$this->icoData = $content;
$this->icoMd5 = md5($content);
$this->icoExists = true;
return true;
}
/**
* Download URL as Firefox with cURL
* Details available in $info if provided
*/ public static function downloadAs($url, &$info = null)
{
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); // Don't check SSL certificate to allow autosigned certificate
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // Follow redirects (302, 301)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 20); // Follow up to 20 redirects
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0');
if(!empty(self::$httpProxy)){
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, self::$httpProxy); // Set HTTP proxy
}
$content = curl_exec($ch);
$info['curl_errno'] = curl_errno($ch);
$info['curl_error'] = curl_error($ch);
$info['http_code'] = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
$info['effective_url'] = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
$info['redirect_count'] = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT);
$info['content_type'] = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE);
curl_close($ch);
if($info['curl_errno'] !== 0 || in_array($info['http_code'], array(403, 404, 500, 503))){
return false;
}
return $content;
}
/**
* Return file extension from an URL or a file path
*/ public static function getExtension($filename)
{
if(preg_match('#^(https?|ftp)#i', $filename)){
$url = parse_url($filename);
$filename = $url['path'];
}
$info = pathinfo($filename);
return $info['extension'];
}
/**
* Return URL type, either :
* - absolute_full ex: http://www.domain.com/images/fav.ico
* - absolute_scheme ex: //www.domain.com/images/fav.ico
* - absolute_path ex: /images/fav.ico
* - relative ex: ../images/fav.ico
*/ public static function urlType($url)
{
if(empty($url)) return false;
$urlInfo = parse_url($url);
if(!empty($urlInfo['scheme'])) return 'absolue_full';
if(preg_match('#^//#i', $url)) return 'absolute_scheme';
if(preg_match('#^/[^/]#i', $url)) return 'absolute_path';
return 'relative';
}
/**
* Show object printable properties, or return it if $return is true
*/ public function debug($return = false)
{
$dump = clone $this;
unset($dump->icoData);
if($return) return $dump;
print_r($dump);
}
}
?>
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