Download a site's favicon and touch icons

Paste a page URL and the scanner lists every icon the page declares — the classic favicon, the PNG variants, and the Apple touch icons — each with the size the page states for it. It reads what the page actually declares rather than guessing at the usual filenames, which is the difference between the icons a site really uses and a lucky hit on one of them.

What this does

Every icon the page declares is listed: rel="icon" in all its spellings, plus apple-touch-icon and apple-touch-icon-precomposed. Sites commonly declare six or more, and you get all of them rather than one.
The size a page states for each icon is read from its sizes attribute and shown on the tile before anything is downloaded, so you can pick the resolution you need at a glance.
Icons preview at natural size rather than being upscaled to fill a tile, which is what makes a 16px icon distinguishable from a 32px one on screen.
The declared size is the page's claim, and one click measures the real one: a single 4 KB range request reads the file header and replaces the claim with the true dimensions.

What a page actually declares

A modern site rarely has one favicon. It typically declares a small ICO for legacy browsers, one or two PNGs, sometimes an SVG, and an Apple touch icon for home-screen bookmarks — each with its own size and purpose. All of it sits in the page head as link tags.

This tool reads those tags. That is deliberately narrower than “find the site’s icon” and deliberately more accurate: what a page declares is what browsers actually use, and the set is usually larger than people expect.

Why guessing is worse than finding nothing

The obvious shortcut is to request /favicon.ico at the domain root and hand over whatever comes back. It works often enough to be tempting, and it fails silently: you get a stale icon a site stopped using, a placeholder from a hosting provider, or a 404 page served with an image content type.

Reading the declaration means an empty result is informative. It says this page declares no icons — which is itself the answer, and points you at the homepage or the root URL rather than leaving you with something wrong.

What it won't do

Only declared icons are found. A site that serves /favicon.ico purely by browser convention, without a link tag, has declared nothing for us to read — we never guess at URLs, so nothing appears. Try the URL directly in that case.
A sizes attribute is a claim by the page, and pages get it wrong. Sizes shown as declared are unverified until you measure them; sizes="any", which SVG icons commonly use, states no dimensions at all.
A multi-resolution .ico file holds several images in one file. It is listed and downloaded as the single file it is, not split into its component sizes.
The grid arrives filtered to "Meta and icons", which is the narrowest filter that exists — it holds the social preview images too. Icons are labelled favicon on the tile, so they are easy to pick out, but the view is slightly wider than this page's title.
Icons are declared per page, and pages within one site can declare different ones. What you get is what that page declares.
If the site's robots.txt asks automated tools not to read the page, the scan stops and says so. There is no override.

Questions

Why does this find nothing on some sites?

Because the page declares no icons. Browsers fall back to requesting /favicon.ico at the domain root whether or not anything says so, and a site relying on that convention has nothing in its HTML for a reader to find. We do not guess at URLs — guessing produces confident wrong answers, like listing an icon that 404s.

Which icon should I take?

For a browser tab, 32×32 or the SVG if one is declared. For an app icon or a link preview, the Apple touch icon is usually the largest and cleanest — often 180×180. The declared sizes are on the tiles.

Are the sizes shown trustworthy?

They are the page's own claim, and they are frequently stale — a site updates an icon and leaves the old sizes attribute in place. Use Measure dimensions and the real numbers replace the claimed ones.

Can I get the icon from a site's homepage if I scan an inner page?

Usually yes, because most sites declare the same icons site-wide from a shared template. If an inner page declares nothing, scan the homepage.

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