TinEye Commercial API

TinEye offers a paid commercial Application Programming Interface (or API for short). 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

Important: Just like tineye.com, the TinEye API can search for virtually any image, regardless of where it came from — but it will only retrieve results from the TinEye database of web images. If you need an API that can retrieve results from your own private set of images or from any set of images that is not part of the TinEye database of web images, please contact us.

Who is the TinEye Commercial API for?

Commercial websites, mobile applications and enterprise workflow solutions can use the API for such things as:

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 a unique API key which provides access to the API. You must purchase a pre-paid search bundle in order to use the API to search TinEye. For more information regarding implementation of the TinEye Commercial API, please see our documentation on the API website.

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

How is the API delivered?

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.