UIImage: How to get website tab icon

Question

I\'m developing an RSS Reader and I need to get the favicon for each feed. For example, if my feed is google.com, I\'d like to get the \"G\" icon and put it into a UIImage or so

Answer 1

If you want the favicon, try calling this URL: http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain= from within your app:

[NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:
    [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:
        [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=google.com"]]
                              delegate:self];

Otherwise, an RSS channel's metadata has an optional element, , which is described here: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#ltimagegtSubelementOfLtchannelgt

For example:

    en-us
        
            
                
                http://www.scientificamerican.com
                144
                
                    http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/logo/SAlogo_144px.gif
                
                45
            
        ...

This image will typically be larger than a site's favicon, and likely not-square, but with some clever cropping and scaling, it can work as an icon if a feed's favicon isn't available.