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Asked: 2026-05-19T11:47:04+00:00

I need a PHP script to convert favicons to PNGs while keeping their original

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I need a PHP script to convert favicons to PNGs while keeping their original dimensions.

I know Google has it’s secret icon converter – http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=http://facebook.com/ but this converts favicons to 16×16 even if they they were originally larger. So basically I need this, minus the shrinking effect.

I’ve also seen this – http://www.controlstyle.com/articles/programming/text/php-favicon/ but I couldn’t get it to work after hours of messing around with it.

Basically I am trying to automatically grab the icon for a link that will be as large as possible – automatically 48×48 png based on a URL would be the perfect scenario, but I don’t know of any humanly possible way to do this given that no websites happen to keep a 48×48 icon in a publicly accessible spot.

Does anybody know of a script/service or have a suggestion? Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    So I ended up using a class called FloIcon that could convert BMPs to ICO. I should note that it’s always important to check the file type of an icon and not assume that .ico means bmp because some sites (like Facebook) were actually PNG).

    @goker.cebeci Your service looks awesome! The main thing is that I needed my icons to be the maximum size when possible, so I just wrote my own script.

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