thanks a lot steven kryskalla ur more than helpful Steven Kryskalla wrote: > a wrote: > > /favicon.ico > > > > i want to get the favicon.ico from the URL when a blog is added to the > > aggregator > > > > and then display the image, > > this is the usage scenario > > > > Please let me know how to do this in python > > > > You can use PIL (http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil) to convert > favicons to other image formats (PNG, GIF, etc.). Getting the favicon > data into Python is pretty easy too, just use urllib. You should be > able to do something like this (maybe in a different process though, > create a task using the scheduler): > > Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] > on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import Image, urllib, cStringIO > >>> #first, download the favicon data > >>> favicondata = urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.com/favicon.ico";).read() > >>> #next, write the favicon to a StringIO file-like object > >>> f = cStringIO.StringIO() > >>> f.write(favicondata) > >>> #rewind back to the beginning of the file and load using PIL > >>> f.seek(0) > >>> img = Image.open(f) > >>> #save to the filesystem (or to a database, etc.) > >>> img.save("/whatever/favicon.google.png", format="PNG") > >>> > > Steve
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