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Dev tools · August 3, 2023

Open-Source Favicon Provider

Hey HN, We couldn’t find a reliable favicon provider for our CRM [1]. There are existing solutions (FaviconKit, Google faviconV2, ...) but we have faced issues with all of them: rate-limiting, down-time, inconsistent icon size. We were looking for a solution that is: 1) reliable: no down-time ; 2) accurate: request a specific icon size to optimize for user bandwidth ; 3) high-quality: that provides the highest resolution icon available for a given requested size ; 4) open-source: this is a common need and a simple problem to solve: an open solution should exist and anybody should be able to…

Open-Source Favicon Provider launched on August 3, 2023 with 14 votes, #1,584 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

In plain words

Open-Source Favicon Provider is a tool that retrieves website favicons reliably by fetching them from HTML meta tags or Google's Favicon API. Built for developers using CRMs and other applications that need icons, it addresses problems with existing solutions like rate-limiting, downtime, and inconsistent sizing. The service allows users to request specific icon sizes for bandwidth optimization and returns the highest available resolution. Being open-source and self-hostable, it enables anyone to deploy and contribute improvements independently.

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From the sources

100% free and open-source favicon provider. Contribute to twentyhq/favicon development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, We couldn’t find a reliable favicon provider for our CRM [1]. There are existing solutions (FaviconKit, Google faviconV2, ...) but we have faced issues with all of them: rate-limiting, down-time, inconsistent icon size. We were looking for a solution that is: 1) reliable: no down-time ; 2) accurate: request a…

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