The fastest Google Images API for visual search at scale

Find where your product imagery appears across the web, structured and on demand. Responses in under one second, from $1 per 1,000 requests, dropping under $0.50 at volume. You are billed only for requests that succeed.

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Switch to image results with one parameter change: tbm=isch
Filter by size, type, colour, and usage rights through tbs
Blocked attempts are retried at our cost and never billed

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Typical response time

$1/1K

List price, under $0.50 at volume

Charge for failed requests

tbm=isch

One parameter switches vertical

Who runs image search through an API

Product photography travels further than the product does. These teams need to know where it ends up.

Brand protection teams

Find listings using your official product photography on sites you never authorised.

Ecommerce catalogue teams

Audit how your imagery is presented across marketplaces and reseller sites.

Marketplace trust and safety

Detect sellers reusing another brand's photography on counterfeit listings.

Media and rights holders

Track where licensed images are republished, and whether attribution survived.

Visual commerce teams

Study how competing products are photographed and positioned in a category.

Why image monitoring doesn't scale by hand

Reverse image search works fine for one photo. Three things break once a catalogue is involved.

Failure 01

Counterfeit listings use your own photography

The fastest way to make a fake listing credible is to use the brand's real product shots. Those listings look legitimate to buyers precisely because the imagery is genuine.

Counterfeits sell on your credibility

Failure 02

One image at a time does not cover a catalogue

Checking manually works at ten products. At two thousand SKUs across several markets, coverage becomes whatever a person had time for this week.

Most of the catalogue unwatched

Failure 03

Findings arrive without evidence

A screenshot of a search result is weak ground for a takedown. Without a retrievable record of what was on the page, enforcement stalls at the first challenge.

Takedowns contested and dropped

The data an image search request returns

Set tbm=isch on the scraper.google.search actor and the same endpoint returns image results — Google Search and Google Image are the two scenarios the API covers out of the box.

organic_results[]

array

Image results for the query, in ranked order.

position

integer

Rank on the image results page.

title

string

Title Google associates with the image.

link

string

Page hosting the image — the field enforcement work is built on.

source

string

Publisher or site name, convenient for grouping by domain.

snippet

string

Surrounding context Google extracted from the hosting page.

favicon

string

Site icon, useful in review queues.

pagination

object

Offsets for sweeping deeper than the first screen of results.

search_information

object

Query displayed and total results.

metadata

object

Engine and stored raw page URL — the evidence record behind a takedown.

POST /api/v1/scraper/request

200 ok

# request
curl --location 'https://api.scrapeless.com/api/v1/scraper/request' \
--header 'x-api-token: <api-key>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "actor": "scraper.google.search",
    "input": {
        "q": "acme trail runner gtx",
        "tbm": "isch",
        "gl": "us",
        "hl": "en"
    }
}'

# response (trimmed)
{ "organic_results": [
    { "position": 1,
      "title":  "Acme Trail Runner GTX — Blue",
      "link":   "https://marketplace-a.com/item/…",
      "source": "Marketplace A" } ],
  "pagination": { "next": "…&start=20" },
  "search_information": {
    "total_results": 18400 },
  "metadata": {
    "rawUrl": "https://www.google.com/…" } }

Full parameter and field reference

Also checking where your brand name appears in text results? See Brand monitoring in SERPs.

How an image sweep works

Queue product and model terms

One request per SKU or model name with tbm=isch. Add gl and hl for each market you sell in.

Filter to what matters

Use tbs to narrow by image size, type, colour, or usage rights, so the sweep returns candidates rather than everything.

Triage and evidence

Match hosting domains against your authorised list. For anything unmatched, metadata.rawUrl is the record a takedown request references.

Built for brand protection, catalogue, and trust and safety teams

The fastest response in the category

A catalogue sweep is thousands of queries across several markets, worth repeating weekly. Sub-second responses are what make that a routine job instead of a quarterly project.

under 1s

typical vendor window

request

unblock

parse

One parameter switches vertical

Image search is not a separate product, key, or price. Change tbm and the same integration returns image results instead of web results.

Search Types

"tbm": "isch" images

"tbm": "shop" shopping

"tbm": "nws" news

same endpoint, same billing

Filter before you triage

The tbs parameter narrows by size, type, colour, and usage rights, which is usually the difference between a review queue a person can clear and one they abandon.

Filters

"tbs": size / type / colour

"tbs": usage rights

"start": sweep deeper

Evidence attached to every finding

Each request stores the source page URL, so an enforcement case rests on a retrievable record rather than a screenshot that a counterparty can question.

Evidence

metadata.rawUrl

organic_results[].link

timestamped per request

Plans built for catalogue-wide sweeps

Sweep cost is SKUs multiplied by markets multiplied by frequency, so effective cost per successful request decides how much of the catalogue you can watch. Start at $1 per 1,000 and move down the curve.

Basic

$0.00/1K

Pay as you go

No commitment. Consumption-based pricing at list rates.

Comparing Google Images API providers

Teams monitoring imagery usually choose between checking by hand, licensing a brand-protection suite, and querying image results directly.

Scrapeless Google Search API

Manual reverse search

Brand protection suite

Typical response time

Under one second

Human speed

Batch reports

Catalogue coverage

Every SKU you query

Whatever fits the week

Scoped to the licence

Entry price

$1.00 / 1K, under $0.50 at volume

Analyst time

Annual licence

Cost of a failed check

Never billed

Repeat the work

Bundled

Evidence per finding

Stored source page URL

Screenshot

Vendor report

Adding a market

Change two parameters

More analyst hours

Contract change

Start using the fastest, lowest-cost Google Images API today

Sub-second image results from $1 per 1,000 requests, dropping under $0.50 at volume, with failed requests never billed. See the full endpoint reference, parameter list, and pricing.

View the product page

Drops into the stack you already run

Official SDKs and verified nodes, so a scheduled rank pull is a configuration task rather than a build.

Python SDK

Node.js SDK

Go SDK

n8n verified node

Make

Pipedream

Activepieces

Dify

MCP server

Webhooks

Need implementation details? View product details or open the Google Search API docs for the full parameter list, response schema, and SDK examples.

Choose the search workflow your team needs

Explore focused solutions for search visibility, AI retrieval, commerce intelligence, research and monitoring. Each use case connects Google Search API results to a clear business outcome.

SEO Rank Monitoring

Measure domain visibility, ranking pages and SERP feature presence across keyword groups, markets and devices.

Explore SEO monitoring

Local SEO & Rankings

Compare local rankings, business listings, Maps visibility and review signals across cities, regions and service areas.

Explore local SEO

AI SEO & GEO Visibility

Monitor brand mentions, citations and source visibility across AI-generated search experiences and target topics.

Explore AI SEO and GEO

Product & Market Research

Study demand signals, alternatives, category presence and competing offers through structured search results.

Explore product research

AI Models & RAG

Give LLMs, agents and RAG pipelines current, attributable search context for grounding and retrieval workflows.

Explore AI model workflows

Keyword Rank Tracking

Track exact keyword positions and movement over time by location, language, device and result type.

Explore rank tracking

Shopping Price Monitoring

Compare public Google Shopping prices, merchants, ratings and product visibility for selected categories.

Explore price monitoring

News & Media Monitoring

Follow headlines, publishers, emerging stories and shifts in public narratives across relevant queries.

Explore news monitoring

Travel Data

Structure Google Flights and Hotels results for route, stay, destination and travel-market research.

Explore travel data

Recruitment Data

Collect Google Jobs results to monitor roles, employers, locations and labor-market demand.

Explore recruitment data

Ad Verification

Verify PPC and Ads visibility, placement and competitive messaging across target queries and markets.

Explore ad verification

Academic Research

Organize Google Scholar results, authors and cited sources for academic and evidence-based research.

Explore academic research

Trend Analysis

Use Google Trends signals to compare changing interest across topics, time periods and markets.

Explore trend analysis You are here

Image Search

Use Google Lens and Images results to discover visual matches, sources and related content.

Explore image search

Brand Monitoring

Track where a brand appears across organic results, news, shopping and other SERP surfaces.

Explore brand monitoring

Need Google Search API specifications and pricing?

Review supported Google API categories, structured response examples, integration steps and pricing on the Product page.

Questions teams ask before they buy

Which is the cheapest Google Images API?

Compare effective cost per successful request rather than list price. Scrapeless lists at $1 per 1,000 and drops under $0.50 at volume, and blocked attempts are never billed — which matters on catalogue sweeps, where most queries return nothing actionable.

Which Google Images API is fastest?

Scrapeless returns most requests in under one second, so a sweep across thousands of SKUs finishes inside a working session rather than running overnight.

How do I get image results instead of web results?

Set tbm to isch on the same scraper.google.search actor. Google Search and Google Image are the two scenarios the API covers out of the box.

Can I filter by image size or usage rights?

Yes. The tbs parameter accepts advanced filters including size, type, colour, and usage rights, which narrows a sweep to candidates worth reviewing.

Can I run the same sweep in several countries?

Yes. Set gl and hl per market. Image results differ by region, and infringing listings often appear in one market well before another.

What evidence do I get for a takedown?

Each result carries the hosting page URL, and metadata.rawUrl stores the source page for the request — a retrievable record rather than a screenshot.

Do I still need my own proxies?

No. IP sourcing, rotation, fingerprinting, and CAPTCHA handling sit behind the endpoint, across 195 countries and regions.

Sweeping a large catalogue? Get a custom rate.

A solutions engineer will scope your SKU count, markets, and sweep frequency, then send back custom pricing — usually within one business day. Smaller catalogues can start free today.

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