Favicon Extractor — all icons, sizes & types from any URL

Find every icon a site declares: <link rel="icon">, apple-touch-icon, mask-icon, all icons listed in its web app manifest, and the /favicon.ico fallback — with sizes and types, plus a best-icon pick (largest/highest-quality). Built for link previews, brand-asset collection, and browser-tab rendering. Single URL or bulk.

$0.0004 per page — cheaper than the paid favicon actors measured on the Store. Failed fetches are recorded free.

What you get

• icons — every declared icon with rel, href (absolute), sizes, type.
• manifestIcons — icons pulled from the site's web app manifest, if present.
• bestIcon — the single best icon URL (prefers SVG, then largest declared size / apple-touch).
• iconCount and manifestUrl.
• Fail-soft: an unreachable URL returns {ok:false, error} and is never charged.

Input

{ "url": "https://github.com", "urls": ["https://stripe.com"], "maxUrls": 25 }

Output (real run, 2026-08-07)

{
  "ok": true,
  "url": "https://github.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "icons": [
    { "rel": "mask-icon", "href": "https://github.githubassets.com/assets/pinned-octocat-...svg", "color": "#000000" },
    { "rel": "icon", "href": "https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg", "type": "image/svg+xml" }
  ],
  "iconCount": 4,
  "bestIcon": "https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg"
}

Pricing — $0.0004 per page

Prices below checked via the Apify Store API on 2026-08-07:

Actor	Pricing	One page
This actor	$0.0004 per page	$0.0004
ninhothedev/favicon-logo-extractor	$0.00005 start + $0.0005 per item	$0.00055
andok/favicon-extractor	$0.01 start + $0.001 per item	$0.011
santamaria-automations/favicon-extractor	$0.001 start + $0.002 per result	$0.003

Limits (honest ones)

• Reads the server HTML and the web manifest; it lists icon URLs and does not download the image bytes.
• The /favicon.ico fallback is verified with a HEAD/GET check only when no declared icons are found.
• maxUrls capped at 200 per run.

FAQ

• Does it include web-manifest icons? Yes — it fetches the manifest and adds its icons.
• How is bestIcon chosen? Prefers scalable SVG, then the largest declared size, weighting apple-touch and PNG.
• Does it download the images? No — it returns the icon URLs (and sizes/types).
• What about a dead URL? You get an {ok:false, error} record, uncharged.

Use from code or AI agents

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/EliAI~webpage-favicon-extractor/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"url":"https://github.com"}'

Callable as an agent tool through the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com).

Related actors

• Favicon Fetcher / Data URI (EliAI/favicon-to-data-uri) — downloads a site's favicon and returns the actual image as a base64 data URI + a hosted file, with real pixel dimensions. This actor enumerates every declared icon URL (link tags, manifest, fallback); that one fetches one as embeddable bytes.