TinEye API - Idée Inc. - The Visual Search Company

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. Give TinEye an image to find out where else it appears on the web.

Find out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.

TinEye Commercial API

The TinEye API is a paid search alternative for professional, commercial or high-volume users. Searching can be done via our provided user interface, or via the TinEye API itself. Using the API, you can integrate the TinEye search engine with your own website or backend to perform searches and retrieve results from TinEye's growing database of web images.

Search for incoming images on the fly, or queue up a bulk set of searches. Your API search results contain the same type of information provided by tineye.com:

a count of the total number of matches
a direct URL to each matching image
the URL of the page where each match was found

If you need reverse image search for your own private images, we have a solution for that, too!

Who is the TinEye Commercial API for?

Professionals, commercial websites, avid TinEye users, and mobile applications use the TinEye API for:

image copyright compliance
user generated content moderation
profile verification
brand monitoring
image tracking
content identification

How do I get the API?

Simply visit our API website and create an API account. Once you're signed up you will receive access to a special user interface to perform your searches, as well as a unique API key which provides access to the API. You must purchase a pre-paid search bundle in order to search.

If you have already signed up for an API account, you can login on the API website.

How do I use the API?

There are two ways to use the API to search TinEye:

Easy: a special user interface very similar to the one at tineye.com
Advanced: integrate the API with your own system directly

For more information regarding integration of the TinEye API, please see our documentation on the API website.

This is a REST API delivered over HTTP in JSON format. The API is completely independent of your operating system, database system or development language. Libraries and language bindings to support REST and JSON are available in all major languages and platforms.