reverse-image-search

library & executable for reverse image searches.

Supported Providers

• "google": Google Reverse Image Search.

Install

CLI:

npm install -g reverse-image-search

Module:

npm install --save reverse-image-search

Requirements

You MUST be running a headless chrome (or chromium) remote debugging session (on port 9222) before running any of the examples. This module does not handle this for you at the moment and will return an error response if skipped.

You can start a headless chromium instance as such in another terminal:

$ chromium --headless --disable-gpu --remote-debugging-port=9222

It's up to you to determine the best way to do this given your requirements.

CLI

$ npm install -g reverse-image-search
$ ris --image-url https://i.imgur.com/XLXBB9z.jpg --pretty
{
  "ok": true,
  "data":{
    "provider": "google",
    "url": "https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:xxx&hl=en"
  }
}

The url contains results from the reverse image search.

As a module

const { google } = require('reverse-image-search');
 
google.searchByImageURL({
  imageURL: 'https://i.imgur.com/XLXBB9z.jpg'
}).then(result => {
  console.log(result);
}).catch(err => {
  console.error(err);
});

Options

The options below are in the format:

• <nodeOption>: <[type: default]> / --<cli-option> <[type: default]>.

In some cases, options are only supported in the CLI.

---

--pretty (default = false)

Should we pretty print the results?

imageURL: <string> / --image-url <string>

required unless --image-file is provided

Provide an image URL for performing a reverse image search with.

imageFile: <string> / --image-file <string>

required unless --image-url is provided

Provide an image file path for performing a reverse image search with.

provider: <string> / --provider <string> (default = "google")

Specify which provider to use, e.g. google.

language: <string> / --language <string> (default = "en")

provider specific

Language to pass to the provider.

e.g. Google supports en, fr, es, ...

userAgent: <string> / --user-agent <string> (default = "Firefox")

Specify a user agent to use with requests.

warning: this might invalidate assumptions this library makes when parsing the resulting HTML if you choose an obscure User Agent. Open an issue or a PR with a fix if this occurs.