Google Lens Reverse Image Search

❓ What does it do?

This scraper lets you collect image sources from Google Lens. To get the details, you can supply a list of URLs for the images to search.

💾 What data can users scrape from Google Lens

• Exact matches - Results on 'Exact matches' tab. The output fields are:
  • Source page url
  • Source page title
  • Source page time
  • Resolution of matching image(Optional)
  • Site title(Optional)
  • Site icon(Optional)
• About this image - Results on 'About this image' tab. The output fields are:
  • Source page url
  • Source page title
  • Source page description(Optional)
  • Site title(Optional)
  • Site icon(Optional)

The site icon can either be a url or base64-encoded data.

📝 Input format

• images
  • URLs of images to search
• types
  • list of scrapping type. Options are "exact" and "about", referring to "Exact matches" and "About this image" tabs.
• count
  • Max result count of each type
• concurrency
  • Scrapping concurrency. The bigger, the more resource needed. It takes less than 128M memory for 2. Recommended to be less than 10.
• extra_outputs
  • Extra outputs other than ref, type, source and title. Options are description, time, resolution, icon and site. Optional fields are either not showing or null.
• proxy
  • standard proxy selection of Apify. Google can easily block you if you don't use a proxy. Select proper proxy group according to your place. RESIDENTIAL or better group is recommended.

Output format

• ref
  • String, image to search(indicating which search this result belongs to)
• type
  • String, result type, either "exact" or "about", in correspond with input.
• link
  • String, source page URL
• title
  • String, source page title
• description
  • String, source page description
• time
  • String, source page time
• resolution
  • String, resolution of matching image
• site
  • String, title of source site
• icon
  • String, icon of source site

Example Output

1[
2   {
3      "ref": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Elon_Musk_Royal_Society_crop.jpg",
4      "type": "exact",
5      "link": "https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/12/penn-says-access-to-former-twitter-employees-thesis-was-mistakenly-closed-off-following-elon-musk-tweets/",
6      "title": "Penn says access to former Twitter employee's thesis was ...",
7      "time": "2 years ago",
8      "resolution": "904x1,197",
9      "site": "Retraction Watch",
10      "icon": "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACAAAAAgCAAAAABWESUoAAAA5UlEQVR4Ae3RrW4EIRAA4L5Ibd+hT1J36vxaHApDgiHjMMhJkCOwmDMoFMlosgqzDkm3P2e2aa/J2RtDCF+Yv6d5I+4DD5CltuMLdIG0n3W7vvW65eTmXJfvH4BhGGdcEsbpCTKIQooxpgRCrx+gWushtHypVlSqJXY8sfANkFreUywsIvgqHEwlldN9CVIxxUt0Ev0vRRa1jSL/6oLBifMPMD7jepnP+QjayZmF61RtlCY4vY1jCkRA8lk1H0mndA5HEK1JFq2OeiS/YXvtB9B5nyIR0+pLyDSlubGs8dL/u80HeAcoGr7RGP8RDwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=="
11   },
12   {
13      "ref": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Elon_Musk_Royal_Society_crop.jpg",
14      "type": "about",
15      "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk",
16      "title": "Elon Musk",
17      "description": "Sep 9, 2024 — Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and senior advisor to the U.S. president, known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, the Department of Government...",
18      "site": "Wikipedia",
19      "icon": "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABwAAAAcCAAAAABXZoBIAAAAnklEQVR4AeTNIQiDQABG4b+u17X1aF6PK3YEO9iMJqPVau82y4FgMezS0oVLhqsHtrcqeqzDXv3CEz/6L4yTtZM3dnHmPTtjzXZAXKYVo4agkU2GI2Lloc6JDez1+flswMu1EQZ3xlE7lK8eKDkjtwE+crBMV+wesKmCiisGGepZIfQJpMj9SNb2MYWrChjVkULuCyCfRvsdmBieyQQAsoDk/9ryhFMAAAAASUVORK5CYII="
20   }
21]

🙋‍♀️ FAQs

Q: Can the data be exported in different formats?

A: Yes, the scraped data can be downloaded in formats such as JSON or CSV for analysis.

Q: Is it legal to scrape Google Lens?

A: You should consult the Terms of Service for Google Lens to determine if your use case is permitted.