Windows Icon Extractor

This module attempts to extract icons of any windows path and returns PNG represented by base64 string.

Limitations

• only runs on windows (uses internal windows libraries)
• the result is always 32x32

Changelog

1.0.4

• Unicode paths accepted now!
• Fixed occasional failture to load icon (caused by wrong memory management)
• Fixed possible memory leak

Installation

Using npm:

npm install win-icon-extractor --save

Usage

This module consists of single exported function. This function returns promise, which returns base64 encoded png data.

var extractIcon = require('win-icon-extractor');

extractIcon("binary.exe").then((result) => {
	// Prints "data:image/png;base64,iVB...."
	console.log(result);
});