# Favicon Scraper & Archiver (`embion/favicon-scraper-archiver`) Actor

Automatically discover, download, and archive favicons from a list of websites. Ensuring you get the icons you need in a clean and organized manner. Supported formats: SVG, PNG, ICO

- **URL**: https://apify.com/embion/favicon-scraper-archiver.md
- **Developed by:** [Embion](https://apify.com/embion) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation, SEO tools
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 40 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 4 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Favicon Scraper & Archiver

### Extract favicons from any website in seconds

This actor finds favicon files for the pages you supply, saves each discovery with metadata, and can optionally package everything into a ZIP download. Key benefits:

- Finds favicon files linked on each page you provide, even when the links are relative or missing.
- Downloads every discovered icon file while skipping non-image responses to save time and storage.
- Stores the icons in Apify storage with context so you know which page each file came from.
- Can bundle the results into a single ZIP archive you can download from the Apify Console.

### 🏗 Input

| Field        | Type    | Default                     | Notes                                                                   |
| ------------ | ------- | --------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `urls`       | array   | — (required)                | List of objects `{ "url": "https://example.com" }` that seed the crawl. |
| `proxy`      | object  | `{ "useApifyProxy": true }` | Standard Apify proxy configuration.                                     |
| `export_zip` | boolean | `false`                     | Toggle for ZIP archive creation.                                        |

### 📦 Output

#### Dataset

Example output dataset record:

```json
{
    "url": "https://apify.com/",
    "domain": "apify.com",
    "favicon_url": "https://apify.com/icon1.png?234d3d2617d3bca0",
    "file_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/mNs0ZkXB0o2ce2azr/records/apify.com_b35c5494_icon1.png?signature=1b70jMK9a3NIrIiCuqT70",
    "storage_key": "apify.com_b35c5494_icon1.png",
    "filename": "icon1.png",
    "file_size": 367,
    "extension": ".png",
    "content_type": "image/png"
}
```

#### Key-Value store

Binary favicon files plus optional `favicons.zip`. When you set `export_zip` to `true`, the actor stores the archive under `favicons.zip` and adds a direct download link (`OUTPUT.zip_url`) that appears in the Apify Console’s Output tab `ZIP archive`.

### 🚀 How to start

1. Log into your Apify account.
2. Enter links to target websites in "Website URLs" input field.
3. Enable proxy settings if needed.
4. Click start button.
5. Wait until the job is complete.
6. Collect results from the Default dataset ("Favicons" tab)

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

We will look for favicon links inside HTML pages of these URLs

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Keep proxies enabled for best results

## `export_zip` (type: `boolean`):

If enabled, the actor will create a ZIP archive of all discovered favicon files.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apify.com"
    }
  ],
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "export_zip": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `favicons` (type: `string`):

No description

## `zipFile` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        {
            "url": "https://apify.com"
        }
    ],
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("embion/favicon-scraper-archiver").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "urls": [{ "url": "https://apify.com" }],
    "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("embion/favicon-scraper-archiver").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apify.com"
    }
  ],
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call embion/favicon-scraper-archiver --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,embion/favicon-scraper-archiver"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Pem2vMiBcAdyCvcK0/builds/U30cpPcqhKHcX7rIs/openapi.json