Get website favicon proper way using CEF

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Hey all,

I was just wondering, is there a proper way to get a website's favicon without just getting it from

VB.NET

"http" + Url.Host + "/favicon.ico"

? I know that a website usually sets its favicon like this:

HTML

<meta content="/images/myfavicon.png" itemprop="image">

OR

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/myfavicon.ico">

Is there a way I can search through the website's HTML code and get the icon from those tags using CEF (ChromiumEmbedFramework for VB.NET WinForms) or a webclient (I'm still not sure how to get the source code from a website using CEF).

I would really appreciate any help! :D

Posted 28-Dec-14 0:16am

User 7711251

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User 7711251 · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-28T16:52:00

Ok, I managed to figure it out myself. I decided to use a webclient and use Google's Api to get the website favicon:

VB

Dim Urlh As New Uri("http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=" + New Uri(Browser.Address).Host)
Dim Img As Image = New Bitmap(New IO.MemoryStream(New WebClient().DownloadData(Urlh)))
Dim Img2 As New Bitmap(Img)
Dim Img3 As Icon
Dim oIcon As Icon = Img3.FromHandle(Img2.GetHicon)

Me.Icon = oIcon

Hope this helps anyone else! ;)