Yandex Images Scraper

Extract image search results from Yandex Images — the leading image search engine for Russian-language and CIS-market web content, with regional coverage across Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and an international (English) edition.

What data does it return?

For each image result you get:

Field	Description
imageUrl	Full-resolution image URL
thumbnailUrl	Thumbnail URL (Yandex CDN)
title	Image title / alt text
sourceUrl	Web page where the image appears
sourceDomain	Domain of the source page
width / height	Image dimensions in pixels
thumbnailWidth / thumbnailHeight	Thumbnail dimensions
query	The search query that produced this result
position	Rank within the query's results (1-indexed)
scrapedAt	Scrape timestamp (ISO 8601 UTC)

Every field above is only ever included when real data was extracted — no null/empty placeholders are ever pushed to the dataset.

Use cases

• Image SEO research — Find what images rank for Russian-language keywords
• Brand & logo monitoring — Track visual usage of your brand across Russian and CIS websites
• Content research — Discover image sources and publishers for CIS-market topics
• Stock photo research — Find imagery indexed on the Russian web for specific topics
• Freshness monitoring — Track newly-indexed images for a topic over the last week

How to use

1. Enter one or more search queries (supports Cyrillic and Latin scripts)
2. Set Max Results per query (1–500; each page returns ~30 images)
3. Optionally filter by Image Size, Type, Color, Orientation, or Date
4. Optionally pick a Region to search a different Yandex ccTLD
5. Proxy is pre-configured to Apify's free AUTO (datacenter) group — no paid add-ons required

Example input

{
  "searchQueries": ["Яндекс логотип", "Toyota red car"],
  "maxResults": 60,
  "imageSize": "large",
  "imageType": "photo",
  "orientation": "horizontal",
  "region": "ru",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Example output

{
  "query": "Яндекс логотип",
  "position": 1,
  "imageUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Yandex_icon.svg/3840px-Yandex_icon.svg.png",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/i?id=31db23fb37e882f20c3b984958435be25e63ecda-3471343-images-thumbs&n=13",
  "title": "File:Yandex icon.svg - Wikimedia Commons",
  "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yandex_icon.svg?uselang=ru",
  "sourceDomain": "commons.wikimedia.org",
  "width": 3840,
  "height": 3840,
  "thumbnailWidth": 3840,
  "thumbnailHeight": 3840,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-20T12:08:56Z"
}

Filters

Filter	Options	Notes
Image Size	Any, Small, Medium, Large, Huge	Maps to Yandex's isize parameter
Image Type	Any, Photo, Clipart, Face, Line art, Demotivator	Maps to itype
Image Color	Any, Color, Black & white, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, White, Black	Maps to icolor
Orientation	Any, Horizontal (landscape), Vertical (portrait), Square	Maps to iorient; verified to measurably narrow the image aspect-ratio distribution
Date	Any time, Past 7 days	Maps to Yandex's recent "fresh images" toggle. This is the only freshness granularity Yandex Images' own UI exposes — there is no day/month/year range, so we don't fabricate one
Region	Russia (yandex.ru), International (yandex.com), Kazakhstan (yandex.kz), Belarus (yandex.by), Uzbekistan (yandex.uz), Turkmenistan (yandex.tm)	Each domain is queried directly; yandex.com serves an English UI, the CIS ccTLDs serve Russian

All filters were verified live against Yandex Images (inspecting the page's own advancedSearch.filters.active state and the resulting image dimensions/content) before being wired into the actor — none are guessed.

Proxy

Yandex Images can show a CAPTCHA to heavy/automated traffic. The actor defaults to Apify's free AUTO (datacenter) proxy group, which was verified reliable across every input combination tested (see Testing below) — no paid proxy is required to run this actor on the free plan. If you scrape at high volume and start seeing CAPTCHA warnings in the run log, switch proxyConfiguration to a Residential proxy group for extra headroom.

The actor also retries automatically: each search page load gets up to 3 attempts with exponential backoff (10s → 20s → 40s, capped at 90s), rotating to a fresh proxy session on every retry. This recovers from transient network errors, 429/5xx responses, and one-off CAPTCHA challenges. If a query still fails after all retries, the run's status message reports it explicitly instead of silently returning 0 results.

Regions / multi-market support

Yandex Images is queried directly on the domain you select — yandex.ru, yandex.com, yandex.kz, yandex.by, yandex.uz, and yandex.tm were all verified to return real (non-CAPTCHA) search results from Apify's own datacenter IPs. yandex.ru remains the default and the most complete index for Russian-language content; yandex.com is the best choice for an English-language UI and international sources.

Known limitations

• Reverse image search is not supported — keyword search only.
• Some sourceUrl pages (e.g., certain stock-photo sites) block plain HTTP clients with their own bot protection and return a non-200 status to tools like curl, even though the page opens fine in a real browser. This affects only the page URL, not the imageUrl/thumbnailUrl media links, which were verified to resolve directly.
• Results past roughly 400–500 per query become sparse on Yandex's side, matching the actor's 500 cap.

FAQ

Can I scrape more than 500 results per query? Yandex Images stops returning meaningful results past ~400–500 results. The cap of 500 matches practical limits.

Does it work without a paid proxy? Yes. The default AUTO (datacenter) proxy group is free on every Apify plan and was verified reliable in testing. Residential proxy is available as an opt-in for high-volume use.

Is reverse image search supported? Not currently — keyword search only.

What languages do the queries support? Any language Yandex Images supports — Russian, Kazakh, Uzbek, English, and more.

What does the "Date" filter actually do? It toggles Yandex's own "fresh images" filter, which only supports a single 7-day window — Yandex's own search UI doesn't expose finer date granularity for images, so the actor doesn't invent one.

Which region should I pick? yandex.ru (default) has the deepest index for Russian-language and CIS content. Use yandex.com for an English-language interface, or the country-specific ccTLD (kz/by/uz/tm) if you specifically need that market's locally-tuned results.