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

In 2020, using duckduckgo.com's service from the CLI

curl -v https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip2/.ico > favicon.ico

Example

curl -v https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip2/www.cdc.gov.ico > favicon.ico