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TinEye - Python app to screen-scrape TinEye image search results.

Install:

To install, put somewhere on your python path. Doesn't matter where.

Requirements:

I am using BeautifulSoup to parse the results output. If you want this python program to work - best install BeautifulSoup. It very useful for other things too.

About:

You can use this app to search for photos on the TinEye webapp. Initially I had asked for non-commercial access to their API, but I got a PFO instead.

Using this library is in direct conflict with their terms of service. I have put in a few random User Agent strings and search rate limiting but come one. These guys design image search algorithms for a living. I am sure they can tell when their system is being abused. Make sure you steal your neighbors WiFi connection when using this code.

Usage:

Usage is pretty simple. There are two objects, TinEye search object and a TinEye photo object. You create your images that you want searched and pass them to the TinEye search object.

from tineye import TinEye, TinEyePhoto
photo = TinEyePhoto(name='My Cool Photo', 'http://example.com/wicked_photo.jpg')

te = TinEye()
num_results, link = te.search(photo)

See - it's not too tough.