How to get tab/url's favicon in safari web extension natively?

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Created Jan ’21

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I'm converting a Chrome Extension to a Safari Web Extension, I found it's not easy to get favicon of current tab/url natively.

The tab object in Safari doesn't have favIconUrl.

Code Block json{
  "id": 121,
  "index": 6,
  "active": true,
  "width": 1324,
  "audible": false,
  "url": "https://github.com/",
  "mutedInfo": {
    "muted": false
  },
  "windowId": 2,
  "title": "GitHub",
  "incognito": false,
  "pinned": false,
  "height": 935,
  "highlighted": true,
  "status": "complete"
}

2. I didn't find Safari has similar thing like chrome://favicon

3. I found Safari's favicon caches in ~/Library/Safari/Favicon Cache/favicons but have no idea how to use them in Safari Web Extension.

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VexStudio OP

Jun ’24

Am looking for FavIcon API too, where I can change them from safari extension. Best would be to get data_uri-mime-base64 type image of favicon and possibly way to write it back.

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