Google Image search using an image URL

Question

I have tried searching this multiple times and came across no simple resources.

Lets say I have a single URL and I want to search for all images that look the same as said image (let's say <98% similarity, for arguments sake).

I simply want to return the number of images that look the same as my original, that is all.

I have searched Google multiple times ,but found no convenient way for me to do this using. I would preferably like to use Python, but if this is not possible it would be perfect if I could just use the method call in a Python program.

Is it possible? How?

Answer 1

You can search for all images you have through google image search engine simply, because Google has been providing us with their own APIs like

https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images

And I found related article on stackoverflow, just take a look at python search with image google images

Answer 2

This is a problem more suitable for a web-service to perform. Tineye.com is a reverse image search, and I suspect that you can use curl to send a http request to this web service, and use e.g. BeautifulSoup to extract the number of matches.