Website Icon Download Tool

I recently developed a website icon download tool that can automatically retrieve and download website icons. It’s perfect for use as a local image resource when building navigation websites.

This is a tool for batch downloading website icons (favicons), which supports both command-line and graphical user interface operations.

Project Address:

https://github.com/cheng01315/website-favicon-downloader

Directory Structure

Website Icon Downloader/
├── favicon_downloader.exe # Command-line version executable
├── favicon_gui.exe # Graphical interface version executable
├── README.md # Project documentation
├── website_ico/ # Directory for downloaded icon files
├── successful_downloads.txt    # Log file of successful downloads
├── failed_downloads.txt # Log file of failed downloads
├── test_list.txt List of website domains to be downloaded by # (one per line)
└── src/ # source code directory
    ├── favicon_core.py # core download logic
    ├── favicon_downloader.py   # Main program for the command-line version
    ├── favicon_gui.py # Main program for the GUI version
    ├── favicon_downloader.spec # PyInstaller configuration file
    ├── favicon_gui.spec # PyInstaller configuration file for the GUI version
    └── __pycache__/ # Python cache directory

Features and Specifications

• Supports retrieving website icons from multiple APIs (Google, FaviconKit, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, Icon Horse)
• Offers both command-line and graphical user interface options
• Domain names can be read in bulk from a text file
• Automatically export the results of successful and failed downloads
• Supports multiple image formats (PNG, JPG, GIF, WEBP, etc.)

Instructions for Use

Command-Line Version (favicon_downloader.exe)

1. Create a text file containing domain names, with one domain name per line. For example:

   www.google.com
   www.github.com
   www.stackoverflow.com
   www.python.org
   

2. Run the executable file and specify the path to the domain name file:

   favicon_downloader.exe domains.txt

3. The program will begin downloading icons in batches, and a progress indicator will appear during the download.

Graphical User Interface Version (favicon_gui.exe)

1. Double-click to run favicon_gui.exe
2. Click the "Browse" button to select the domain file
3. Click the "Start Download" button
4. You can view download progress and log information in real time.

Document Description

Executable file

• favicon_downloader.exe: Command-line version, suitable for batch files and scripts
• favicon_gui.exe: Graphical user interface version, with more intuitive operation

Output File

• website_ico/: This folder contains all downloaded icon files; each icon is named after the website's domain name.
• successful_downloads.txt: Record the domain names of successfully downloaded websites and their corresponding icon URLs
• failed_downloads.txt: Record the domain names of websites where downloads failed

Source Code

• src/: Includes all Python source code used for development and maintenance

Important Notes