1.2.1 • Published 5 years ago
@th.r/favicon-loader v1.2.1
@th.r/favicon-loader
The Library downloads the best favicon of the requested Website.
that includes the following behavior:
- the Library follows the redirect of the requested website
- if the requested website is not available or the icon could not read from the Website the library returns a
default icon
. - if the library gets any problem with write access to the given imageFolderPath it will
return false
.
Install
$ npm i @th.r/favicon-loader
Usage
const faviconLoader = require('@th.r/favicon-loader');
const path = require('path');
var requestUrl = "http://www.github.com";
var imageFolder = path.join(__dirname,'../uploads/')
faviconLoader(requestUrl, imageFolder)
.then(function(res){
console.log(res)
})
/* Result
{
path: '/Users/path/to/the/icon/bestIco.png',
basename: 'bestIco.png',
extention: '.png',
mimetype: 'image/png'
}
*/
Options
Also, you can define some options.
Result option
var options = {
result: 'FILE_INFORMATION'
};
faviconLoader(requestUrl, imageFolder, options)
.then(function(res){
console.log(res)
})
Result options 'FILE_INFORMATION'
FILE_INFORMATION forces that the result comes as a file information object.
{
path: '/Users/path/to/the/icon/bestIco.png',
basename: 'bestIco.png',
extention: '.png',
mimetype: 'image/png'
}
Result options 'FILE_DATA'
FILE_DATA forces that the result comes as a file data object. So that you have not to load the file afterwards.
{
resource: 'local',
path: '/Users/path/to/the/icon/bestIco.png',
extention: '.png',
content_type: 'image/png',
uridata: 'data:image/png;base64,iVBOR…….TkSuQmCC'
}
Default Icon option
You can define your own default icon.
var options = {
result: 'FILE_DATA',
default_icon: path.join(__dirname,'./default.png')
};
faviconLoader(requestUrl, imageFolder, options)
.then(function(res){
console.log(res)
})