Process a favicon.ico and calculate its hash based on https://twitter.com/brsn76945860/status/1171233054951501824

favicon-hash.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import mmh3
import requests
import argparse
import codecs

requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Process a favicon.ico and calculate its hash')
parser.add_argument('url', help='The URL path to favicon.ico')
args = parser.parse_args()

response = requests.get(args.url, verify=False, timeout=5)
favicon = codecs.encode(response.content, "base64")
hash = mmh3.hash(favicon)
print(hash)

# python3 favicon-hash.py http://site.com/img/favicon.ico