@iocium/favicon-extractor

Extracts all relevant favicons, Apple touch icons, Android web app icons, and manifest-defined icons from a given URL.
Designed to be edge-compatible (Cloudflare Workers safe) and fully testable in Node.js.

🚀 Features

• Parses HTML <link> and <meta> tags for favicon/icon references
• Follows <link rel="manifest"> to extract additional icons
• Groups icons by platform (standard, Apple, Android)
• Identifies the largest icon per MIME type
• Fully type-safe (written in TypeScript)
• Compatible with Cloudflare Workers and Node.js environments

📦 Installation

npm install @iocium/favicon-extractor

🧪 Basic Usage

import { FaviconExtractor } from "@iocium/favicon-extractor";

const extractor = new FaviconExtractor();

const icons = await extractor.fetchAndExtract("https://example.com");
console.log(icons);

⚙️ Grouping and MIME Support

const grouped = extractor.groupIcons(icons);
/*
{
  standardIcons: [...],
  appleTouchIcons: [...],
  androidIcons: [...]
}
*/

const withMimeTypes = extractor.addMimeTypes(icons);
/*
[
  { url: "...", type: "...", size: "...", mimeType: "image/png" },
  ...
]
*/

🖼️ Get the Largest Icon by Type

const largestIcons = extractor.getLargestIconsByMimeType(icons);

Each returned icon is the highest resolution found for that MIME type.

🧠 Advanced: Manual Normalization

// If you already have raw relative icon paths:
extractor["icons"] = ["/favicon.ico", "images/logo-192.png"];
const absoluteUrls = extractor["normalizeIcons"]("https://example.com");

console.log(absoluteUrls);
// → ["https://example.com/favicon.ico", "https://example.com/images/logo-192.png"]

🧪 Running Tests

npm run test

✅ With Coverage

npm run test:coverage

Open the full report:

open coverage/lcov-report/index.html

Thresholds: 90% branches / 100% lines / 100% statements

👷 Built for Edge Platforms

This library is compatible with Cloudflare Workers thanks to:

• No use of Node-specific APIs
• HTMLRewriter support with test mocks
• Lightweight and modular core

🧑‍💻 License

MIT

🙌 Contributing

Pull requests and improvements welcome!
Feel free to file an issue if you need support for additional icon types or HTML quirks.