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title: "Favicon Downloader: Get Site Icons from a URL"
description: "Free favicon downloader: enter a URL and get the icons the site declares (ICO, PNG, SVG, Apple touch, manifest), with each real size read from the file."
canonical: "https://browser-use.com/tools/favicon-downloader"
last_updated: "2026-11-14"
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# Favicon Downloader: Get Site Icons from a URL

## Favicon Downloader

Download the icons a website declares, up to 16 per run: icon tags, Apple touch icons, manifest icons and /favicon.ico. Format and size are read from each file.

## How it works

### Enter a URL

Our server reads the page's HTML, its web app manifest and /favicon.ico. No JavaScript runs.

### Check each icon

Format and pixel size come from the file, every size inside an .ico. If the HTML says otherwise, the card says so.

### Download

Save any icon exactly as the site serves it, named for its real format, or copy its URL. The report downloads as JSON.

### Where does a site's favicon come from?

From a <link rel="icon"> in the page ("shortcut icon" works too). Without one, browsers may ask for /favicon.ico at the site's root. Apple devices use apple-touch-icon, Safari pinned tabs use mask-icon, and installed web apps use the manifest's icons.

Source: [HTML spec: rel=icon](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#rel-icon) · [W3C: manifest icons](https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/#icons-member) · [Apple: touch icons](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html) · [Apple: pinned tab icons](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/pinnedTabs/pinnedTabs.html)

### Why can the size differ from the HTML?

The sizes and type attributes are written by hand and can be wrong. This tool reads the file, so a 48x48 PNG named favicon.ico and tagged 32x32 shows as a 48x48 PNG, with a note.

### Is an SVG favicon safe to open here?

It is shown only as an image, where its scripts do not run. The preview has no access to this site, and Download saves a file.

Source: [W3C: SVG Integration](https://www.w3.org/TR/svg-integration/)

### What does it fetch?

One public page (the first 1 MiB of HTML, up to 5 redirects), its manifest and up to 16 icons (512 KB each, 3 redirects), at most 30 requests, as BrowserUseTools/1.0. Private and local addresses are refused. Nothing is stored.

## Need more than the icons?

Browser Use agents open pages in a real browser, including dynamic ones, and return structured data.

[See AI web scraping](https://browser-use.com/web-scraping)

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