Find Alternatives (Similar Images)

sv3k / reverse-image-search

Reverse image search library

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Find Alternatives (Similar Images) #1

Open DarrenGuinness opened 7 years ago

DarrenGuinness commented 7 years ago

Hi sv3k, thanks for taking the time to create this application. After testing the application using the findAlternatives() function, I realized that the api is getting the "Visually Similar Images" results from google. Is there anyway to get the "Pages that include matching images"?

sv3k commented 7 years ago

Hi Darren, this project is intended to complement Google Custom Search API with image-specific search features it doesn't provide. What you are asking for is just a web search by image which is likely supported in the API itself — so I'd suggest you to check there.

DarrenGuinness commented 7 years ago

I would love to be wrong, but I have read over some of the API and all of the example queries. I haven't found one example of using an image as a query, only text queries for related images. But thanks for the clarification.

sv3k commented 7 years ago

I've checked the Google API and you're right, I've not found such functionality there as well. So sorry for this confusion 😅 . In this case it looks like a good feature to add to this project. Pull request are welcomed!