How to get high resolution website logo (favicon) for a given URL

Question

I\'m developing a web browser on Android and want to show the URL logo for the most visited sites like in Chrome (4 X 2). But the problem is that most favicons (eg: http://w

Answer 1

The Go code at https://github.com/mat/besticon tries to solve this problem.

For example

$ besticon http://github.com 
http://github.com:  https://github.com/apple-touch-icon-144.png

There is also an accompanying hosted version of the code, see for example http://icons.better-idea.org/icons?url=github.com.

(Disclaimer: I wrote it because I needed to solve the same problem a while ago.)