How can I get a web site's favicon?

Question

Simple enough question: I\'ve created a small app that is basically just a favourites that sits in my system tray so that I can open often-used sites/folders/files from the

Answer 1

http://realfavicongenerator.net/favicon_checker?site=http://stackoverflow.com gives you favicon analysis stating which favicons are present in what size. You can process the page information to see which is the best quality favicon, and append it's filename to the URL to get it.