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UIImage: How to get website tab icon

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 something. Any ideas on how to achieve this?

Solution

  • The easiest way to go would be to use Google:

    NSString *myURLString = @"http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.stackoverflow.com";
NSURL *myURL=[NSURL URLWithString: myURLString];
NSData *myData=[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:myURL];

UIImage *myImage=[[UIImage alloc] initWithData:myData];

    That should work.

    You would just have to replace the domain where you want to query your icon.