import sys
import shutil
import urllib2
import lxml.html
HEADERS = {
'User-Agent': 'urllib2 (Python %s)' % sys.version.split()[0],
'Connection': 'close',
}
def get_favicon(url, path='favicon.ico', alt_icon_path='alticon.ico'):
if not url.endswith('/'):
url += '/'
request = urllib2.Request(url + 'favicon.ico', headers=HEADERS)
try:
icon = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
except(urllib2.HTTPError, urllib2.URLError):
reqest = urllib2.Request(url, headers=HEADERS)
try:
content = urllib2.urlopen(request).read(2048) # 2048 bytes should be enought for most of websites
except(urllib2.HTTPError, urllib2.URLError):
shutil.copyfile(alt_icon_path, path)
return
icon_path = lxml.html.fromstring(x).xpath(
'//link[@rel="icon" or @rel="shortcut icon"]/@href'
)
if icon_path:
request = urllib2.Request(url + icon_path[:1], headers=HEADERS)
try:
icon = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
except(urllib2.HTTPError, urllib2.URLError):
shutil.copyfile(alt_icon_path, path)
return
open(path, 'wb').write(icon)
if __name__ == '__main__':
get_favicon('http://code.activestate.com', 'favicon.ico')
