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One-liner fetches favicon from the network, converts it to base64, and prints an HTML link tag with favicon data URL. Use with discretion, favicons may be legally possessed. It's great fun to jazz local scripts and documents.

Single line data and output:

perl -MHTTP::Tiny -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print qq~<link href="data:image/x
+-icon;base64,~, encode_base64(HTTP::Tiny->new->get($ARGV[0])->{conten
+t},""), qq~" rel="icon" type="image/x-icon">~||die"something went wro
+ng"' https://perlmonks.org/favicon.ico
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Multi-line data and output:

perl -MHTTP::Tiny -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print qq~<link href="data:image/x
+-icon;base64,\n~, encode_base64(HTTP::Tiny->new->get($ARGV[0])->{cont
+ent},"\n"), qq~"  rel="icon" type="image/x-icon">\n~||die"something w
+ent wrong"' https://www.perl.com/favicon.ico
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Single line data and output as a script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Tiny;
use MIME::Base64;

push @ARGV, "https://perlmonks.org/favicon.ico" unless @ARGV;

print qq~<link href="data:image/x-icon;base64,~, 

encode_base64(HTTP::Tiny->new->get($ARGV[0])->{content},""), 

qq~" rel="icon" type="image/x-icon">~ || die "something went wrong";

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Perl one-liner/script fetches favicon from the network, 
converts it to base64, and prints an HTML link tag with 
favicon data URL. Use with discretion, favicons may be 
legally possessed. It's great fun to jazz local 
scripts and documents.

=head1 VERSION

Single line data and output version.

=head1 ONE-LINER

  perl -MHTTP::Tiny -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print qq~<link href="data:image
+/x-icon;base64,~, encode_base64(HTTP::Tiny->new->get($ARGV[0])->{cont
+ent},""), qq~" rel="icon" type="image/x-icon">~||die"something went w
+rong"' https://perlmonks.org/favicon.ico

=head1 CAVEAT

Verify the url and the link because this encodes anything, including e
+rrors.

=head1 AUTHOR

=over

=item usemodperl

L<https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1216830>

=back

=cut
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Multi-line data and output as a script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Tiny;
use MIME::Base64;

push @ARGV, "https://www.perl.com/favicon.ico" unless @ARGV;

print qq~<link href="data:image/x-icon;base64,\n~, 

encode_base64(HTTP::Tiny->new->get($ARGV[0])->{content},"\n"), 

qq~" rel="icon" type="image/x-icon">\n~ || die "something went wrong";

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Perl one-liner/script fetches favicon from the network, 
converts it to base64, and prints an HTML link tag with 
favicon data URL. Use with discretion, favicons may be 
legally possessed. It's great fun to jazz local 
scripts and documents.

=head1 VERSION

Multi-line data and output version.

=head1 ONE-LINER

  perl -MHTTP::Tiny -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print qq~<link href="data:image
+/x-icon;base64,\n~, encode_base64(HTTP::Tiny->new->get($ARGV[0])->{co
+ntent},"\n"), qq~"  rel="icon" type="image/x-icon">\n~||die"something
+ went wrong"' https://www.perl.com/favicon.ico

=head1 CAVEAT

Verify the url and the link because this encodes anything, including e
+rrors.

=head1 AUTHOR

=over

=item usemodperl

L<https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1216830>

=back

=cut
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