Google Images Scraper: Image Search Results & URLs

What can Google Images Scraper do?

Google Images Scraper: scrape Google Images search results for any keyword, country and language, with each image's original URL and size, thumbnail, title, source page and site, as data you can export, schedule and call from an API.

• 🖼️ Image results: up to 400 images per search, in Google Images' order, each with its original URL, width and height.
• 🔗 Where each image lives: the page it is on, its site and the site's name, as Google Images shows them.
• 🎨 Details: Google's thumbnail, the file size and the image's dominant color.
• 🌍 Any country and language: set the country and language Google Images searches for.
• 🧰 Google Images' filters: size, color, type, time and usage rights (Creative Commons or commercial licenses), and SafeSearch.
• 🔎 Google Images links: paste a search link and its country, language and filters are kept.

Run it from Apify Console, through the API, on a schedule, or from an AI agent. The prefilled input reads one search, so you can see the output before a larger run.

You want to	Use	What it costs
Find the images Google shows for a product or a place	A search, with its country	$1.50 per 1,000 images
Find images you may reuse	Usage rights: Creative Commons	the same
Collect transparent icons or clip art	Color: transparent, Type: clip art	the same

What data can you get from Google Images?

One record per image.

Data	Field
The image's place in Google Images' results, from 1; Google's own, so a page that held fewer images leaves gaps (1–50, then 101–150)	position
The original image's URL, width and height	imageUrl, imageWidth, imageHeight
Google's thumbnail and its size	thumbnailUrl, thumbnailWidth, thumbnailHeight
The image's title, as Google Images shows it	title
The page the image is on, its site and the site's name	pageUrl, domain, sourceName
The file size as Google shows it, and the dominant color	fileSize, dominantColor
Google Images' ID of the image	imageId
The search on Google Images, to open in a browser	googleImagesUrl
What the record lacks and why	missing

Every record also carries the search it came from: query, line, country, language and filters. The Actor stores URLs and details only: it never downloads an image.

How to use Google Images Scraper

1. Create a free Apify account and open Google Images Scraper.
2. In Searches, enter one search per line, as you would type it in Google Images, or paste a Google Images search link.
3. Choose the Country and Language, and how many Results per search you want (up to 400).
4. Set any of Google Images' Filters.
5. Click Start. Records appear in the Output tab; export them as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them from the API.

How much does it cost to scrape Google Images?

Google Images Scraper is priced per event, with no usage fees on top:

Event	Price	When
Image	$1.50 per 1,000	each image stored

The platform also charges $0.00005 when a run starts. Prices shown are for Apify's free plan; on paid plans they are up to 30% lower.

You read	It costs
100 searches, 100 images each (10,000 images)	$15.00
50 searches, up to 400 images each (at most 20,000 images)	at most $30.00
1,000 searches, 20 images each (20,000 images)	$30.00
The prefilled input (20 images)	$0.03

• Apify's free plan credit of $5 a month covers about 3,300 images.
• Not charged: a search with no results, a search that repeats an earlier one in the same run (read once), and anything the run could not read. Set a maximum total charge in the run options to cap a run: the Actor stops before it.

Input recipes

Each recipe is a complete input to paste.

Product images in one market

{
  "queries": ["wooden coffee table"],
  "country": "US",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Images you may reuse: Creative Commons photos

{
  "queries": ["mountain lake at sunrise"],
  "usageRights": "creativeCommons",
  "type": "photo",
  "size": "large"
}

Transparent icons

{
  "queries": ["shopping cart icon"],
  "color": "transparent",
  "type": "clipart"
}

The same search in Germany, in German

{
  "queries": ["Couchtisch Holz"],
  "country": "DE",
  "language": "de"
}

A Google Images link, as set on the site

{
  "queries": ["https://www.google.com/search?q=wooden+coffee+table&udm=2&tbs=isz:l"]
}

Output example

A record of a search for "coffee mug" in the US (November 2026):

{
  "query": "coffee mug",
  "line": 2,
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "filters": {},
  "position": 3,
  "title": "FÄRGKLAR mug, light pink, 14 oz - IKEA",
  "imageUrl": "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/images/products/faergklar-mug-light-pink__1397576_pe967644_s5.jpg?f=s",
  "imageWidth": 600,
  "imageHeight": 600,
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSSt7_tQ5GFweY8xwJ-WivkRnyIWDN4ZxPuxS4HaRwBQw&s=10",
  "thumbnailWidth": 554,
  "thumbnailHeight": 554,
  "pageUrl": "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/faergklar-mug-light-pink-50604880/",
  "domain": "www.ikea.com",
  "sourceName": "IKEA",
  "fileSize": "25KB",
  "dominantColor": "#b09a96",
  "imageId": "jIVbAlTPi5AJ2M",
  "googleImagesUrl": "https://www.google.com/search?gl=us&hl=en&q=coffee+mug&safe=active&udm=2",
  "missing": []
}

Integrations and API

Use it as a Google Images API: start a run from any language and read its records as JSON, CSV or Excel.

• Make, Zapier, n8n: start a run and send its records on when it finishes.
• Google Sheets, webhooks, the Apify API and clients for JavaScript and Python.
• AI agents: through Apify's MCP server, an agent can call the Actor as a tool.

Run a recipe and get its records in one call (with your Apify API key in the APIFY_TOKEN variable):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/kaleidoscopelabs~google-images-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["wooden coffee table"], "country": "US", "maxResults": 20}'

Building on this Actor

• Output stability: fields are added, never renamed or removed without a new major version; every change is in the changelog.
• What a run's end means: a finished run read every search it was given, or names what it could not read in the run's RUN_SUMMARY record (searchesNotRead, and searchesReadInPart for a search whose later pages could not be read) and says so in its closing status; searches without results are listed in searchesWithoutResults, and searches whose images start at Google Images' second page in searchesFromSecondPage. An input the Actor cannot read ends the run SUCCEEDED with nothing read and no image charged, its reason as the status message and in RUN_SUMMARY's inputError; on a normal run inputError is null.
• Cost per call: the event and its price are on the Pricing tab; what is not charged is listed above; your maximum charge holds.
• Notice: price changes follow Apify's 14-day notice.

For AI agents

Connect an MCP client (Claude, Cursor and others) to https://mcp.apify.com?tools=kaleidoscopelabs/google-images-scraper with your Apify API key, then ask, for example:

• "Find 20 large Creative Commons photos of mountain lakes."

• "Which sites show up in Google Images for 'wooden coffee table' in the US?"

• Minimal input: {"queries": ["wooden coffee table"]} reads up to 100 images in the US, in English, with SafeSearch on.

• Fields to read: position, imageUrl, imageWidth, imageHeight, pageUrl, domain, title; missing for what a record lacks.

• What to know:

  • A Google Images link's own country, language, filters and SafeSearch win over the form's for its line.
  • A search with no results stores nothing and is listed in RUN_SUMMARY's searchesWithoutResults.
  • An empty dataset with inputError set in RUN_SUMMARY is an input mistake, not "no results".

Tips

• Country matters: Google Images' results follow the country; the language changes the titles Google shows and some of the results.
• Links keep their settings: set the filters on Google Images and paste its link.
• Check the license: the usage-rights filter is Google's; check each image's license on its page before you use it.
• A long input: a run that would not finish in its timeout says so at its start, reads what fits and lists the searches left; give it a longer timeout or split the input.

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FAQ

Is there an official Google Images API?

Google offers no API for Google Images' results. Its Custom Search JSON API searched the sites set up in a Programmable Search Engine; Google has closed it to new customers and ends it on 1 January 2027. This Actor reads what Google Images shows anyone for a search and returns it as records you call from the Apify API.

Does it download the images?

No. It stores each image's URLs and details; the images stay on their sites.

Why does a record lack a field?

Google Images does not list that detail for the image; the record names the field in missing with the reason "notGiven".

Why did a search return fewer images than I asked for?

In our tests (November 2026), Google Images showed about 150 to 400 images for a search, fewer for some; you get as many as it shows, up to your number. Some of Google Images' pages hold fewer images; the Actor goes on to the next page for the rest. Images that sit inside documents, such as PDFs, have no image URL and are left out. You pay only for the images stored.

Why do some results start at position 101?

For some searches, mostly shopping ones, Google Images' first page of results comes without its images. The Actor then reads the search from its second page: the records keep Google's own positions, from 101, the run says so, and the search is listed in RUN_SUMMARY's searchesFromSecondPage. Nothing is charged for the first page.

Why do my results differ from what I see in Google Images?

Google Images' results depend on the country, the language, SafeSearch and the time; the Actor searches without a signed-in account or your history, so its results are the ones Google shows anyone for that country and language.

Does it collect personal data?

It stores what Google Images shows anyone for a search: image and page URLs, titles and site names. It has no field about a person, but an image or a title can show one; if your results hold personal data, data-protection law (such as the GDPR) applies to what you do with them.

Is it legal to scrape Google Images?

The Actor reads only what Google Images shows anyone and stores links and details, never the images. Images are usually protected by their owners' copyright: check each image's license on its page before you reuse it. Whether your use of the data is lawful depends on what you do with it; if you are unsure, ask a lawyer.

Limits

• Up to 400 images per search (in our tests Google Images showed about 150 to 400); 1,000 searches a run.
• Search by keyword or link; search by image is not offered.

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