Icon Horse 🎠

Hassle-free icons for any website on the internet. By @mtimofiiv

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

Let's talk about favicons...everything you've ever wanted (and didn't want) to know, and how Icon Horse can help you.

#buildinpublic

https://t.co/9xkDZWdB8U

[Jorge @heyjorgedev]

If you need to grab a favicon from a website for your indie project, you should check out @iconhorse by @mtimofiiv. Its super easy to use and gets the job done. Many thanks to @mtimofiiv, really good product!

https://t.co/5qZtKJUrnu

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

@jezmck I looked into this! The crawler attempts to load the site, but there is a redirect loop. It doesn't happen in the browser, possibly some kind of bot detection?

Similarly, the https://t.co/xSS45YGOWO URL also has a redirect loop. That one is also in the browser.

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

@jezmck Cool, I've added this now, give it a few minutes to deploy and it will be live 🙂

If you encounter any others like this, please let me know and I will add them!

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

@jezmck You're not the first person to notice that the Google icons don't get served correctly because of that redirect logic.

Perhaps I should make a sort of manual override for Google products to display icons they do when they're logged in?

What do you think?

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

@jezmck Hi again @jezmck!

The icon is popping up is that when you attempt to load https://t.co/kNACmfs8u9 while not logged in, you get redirected to https://t.co/Y71KVL7m46 to log in.

That icon is the favicon for that domain.

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

Someone had a busy winter holidays - we were serving up 25GB of icons a day! 👀

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

@chrisbbreuer @KostjaPalovic Its built in Next.js and on @vercel they were serverless endpoints. When we migrated to @appliku managed @linode boxes they were deployed as a typical non-serverless app.

We currently use @Cloudflare for CDN service.

[fiiv @mtimofiiv]

.@data_fetcher just put out a tutorial on using @iconhorse - if you use @airtable give this a read 👀

#buildinpublic

https://t.co/ohqLx3PMdP

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

With more people using our icon service lately, hosting cost was becoming a challenge.

So we switched our hosting to using @linode provisioned with @appliku.

The founder @KostjaPalovic helped iron out some small issues & everything's now working perfectly on the new setup 🤗

[G0LEM @sebpautot]

I also have a page with all my links
It retrieves all the favicons using the @iconhorse API, I found it on here :
https://t.co/uq6ceNHWtJ

[fiiv @mtimofiiv]

I am honestly pretty blown away by the amount of icons 🎠@iconhorse serves daily: ~1 MILLION.

The project started when I had a need for icons of websites for another of my projects.

Turns out I was not alone! 🥰

#buildinpublic #makersneakpeek

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

Bought https://t.co/UCGp4Vc2wW - just in case anyone got any ideas 🤡

No plans to use it yet, https://t.co/gZ5Rrj4MM9 is still the main domain.

#buildinpublic #makersneakpeek

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

One more caveat to icons on websites: Data URLs.

Sometimes, websites embed base64-encoded images instead of linking to an image.

As of this morning, our API will now serve these icons just like any other! 🎉

Example in image is @helpscout

#buildinpublic #makersneakpeek

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

We have now added BIMI logos (via @bimigroup standard) to our API! 🥂

These will now be available alongside regular icons, including favicons, Apple icons & Android icons.

#buildinginpublic

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

📢 Today, we migrated our @stripe account to a new account in 🇨🇦.

Your subscriptions should not be affected (they were re-created 1 for 1 and the old ones voided), but please DM on Twitter or email [email protected] if any issues come up.

Thanks!

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

Do you have anything you'd like us to work on next? Would love to hear from you 😎

[Icon Horse 🎠 @iconhorse]

Minor updates to our API today:

1⃣ You can now use X-API-Key header instead of API key by query param
2⃣ You can now get a 404 HTTP response code along with the placeholder image (useful if you need to verify if the favicon exists while not breaking your UI)

#buildinpublic 🚀

[Tim Daff 🇺🇦 @timdaffx]

Working on a new workflow to bring all my @webflow sites into @NotionHQ automatically, I found https://t.co/cHRKKBV6S8 @iconhorse to be exceptionally good grabbing the favicon. Way better the the gstatic api. bravo!