Google Reverse Image API

Scrape Google Reverse Image search results and return structured exact-match and related-image data.

Scrape Google Reverse Image search results and receive structured image search data.

To enable this engine, set engine=google_reverse_image.

The Google Reverse Image API is designed to scrape Google Reverse Image search and return a JSON object with the available results. Apart from api_key and engine, the request can be customized with the parameters below.

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Google Reverse Image API Integration Examples

We will use the following URL as an example request:

https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v2?engine=google_reverse_image&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRjlJi4t9H9nOiAAv_nRGq8arI_Ed9ILW1lY9lKWa63q8AL_UwI

Ready to Use Google Reverse Image API Scraping Scripts

curl --request GET \
  --url "https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v2?engine=google_reverse_image&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRjlJi4t9H9nOiAAv_nRGq8arI_Ed9ILW1lY9lKWa63q8AL_UwI"

const response = await fetch("https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v2?engine=google_reverse_image&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRjlJi4t9H9nOiAAv_nRGq8arI_Ed9ILW1lY9lKWa63q8AL_UwI", {
  method: "GET"
});

const data = await response.text();
console.log(data);

import http.client

connection = http.client.HTTPSConnection("serpapi.webscrapingapi.com")
connection.request("GET", "/v2?engine=google_reverse_image&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRjlJi4t9H9nOiAAv_nRGq8arI_Ed9ILW1lY9lKWa63q8AL_UwI")

response = connection.getresponse()
data = response.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v2?engine=google_reverse_image&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRjlJi4t9H9nOiAAv_nRGq8arI_Ed9ILW1lY9lKWa63q8AL_UwI",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$error = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

echo $error ? "cURL Error #: " . $error : $response;

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"log"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	requestURL := "https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v2?engine=google_reverse_image&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRjlJi4t9H9nOiAAv_nRGq8arI_Ed9ILW1lY9lKWa63q8AL_UwI"

	response, err := http.Get(requestURL)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer response.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(response.Body)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest
    .get("https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v2?engine=google_reverse_image&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRjlJi4t9H9nOiAAv_nRGq8arI_Ed9ILW1lY9lKWa63q8AL_UwI")
    .asString();

System.out.println(response.getBody());

var client = new RestClient("https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v2?engine=google_reverse_image&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRjlJi4t9H9nOiAAv_nRGq8arI_Ed9ILW1lY9lKWa63q8AL_UwI");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

Console.WriteLine(response.Content);

require "uri"
require "net/http"
require "openssl"

url = URI("https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v2?engine=google_reverse_image&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&url=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRjlJi4t9H9nOiAAv_nRGq8arI_Ed9ILW1lY9lKWa63q8AL_UwI")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
response = http.request(request)

puts response.read_body

Google Reverse Image API Parameters

Query Parameter

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`url`	string	❌	URL of the image you want to use for the reverse image search.
`data`	string	❌	Exact-match lookup string from the `image_sources` field.
`lens`	string	❌	Google Lens tab to fetch, such as `products`, `homework`, `visual_matches`, or `exact_matches`.

Localization Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`hl`	string	❌	Interface language for the Google Reverse Image search.

Response example

{
  "general": {
    "search_engine": "google_reverse_image",
    "language": "en-US",
    "mode": "search"
  },
  "images": [
    {
      "title": "Visually similar image result",
      "source": "example.com",
      "thumbnail": "https://example.com/image.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "exact_matches": [
    {
      "title": "Matching image page",
      "link": "https://example.com/page"
    }
  ]
}