The Google Images API scrapes Google Images in bulk and returns clean, structured JSON: the full-size image URL with width and height, a thumbnail, the source site and domain, the page the image appears on, and the query and position it ranked at. Pass one or more queries, set how many results you want per query, and optionally localize by country and language. Pay per image from $0.10 per 1,000 results, with no setup or per-run fee.

It is the fast, cheap way to get bulk image search data for training datasets, SEO and brand research, moodboards, or an AI agent. It does not download the raw image files, run reverse-image search, or do visual de-duplication; it hands you the image search results as data, and you follow the link to fetch a file yourself.

Example Tasks & Use Cases

Get Google Images results without an API key - Search Google Images with no key and no quota setup, and pay only for the images that come back.

Download Google Images results to CSV - Export image URL, dimensions, thumbnail, source site, domain, and page link for every result to a spreadsheet.

Run image SERP research in Claude via MCP - Do Google Images SERP research inside Claude with the Actor added as an MCP tool.

Build an image dataset for machine learning - Pass class labels as queries and pull thousands of labeled image URLs with dimensions for a vision pipeline.

Get Google Images results in Python - Call the API from Python with the apify-client package for any keyword.

Pull Google Images into n8n by API - Wire image results into an n8n workflow with the community node for a no-code monitor.

Find high-resolution images by keyword - Filter on width and height to surface only the large images for print, hero shots, or design.

Track Google Images rankings for a keyword - Run on a schedule and watch how the images ranking for your brand or product shift over time.

Works with MCP

The Actor runs over the Model Context Protocol, so AI agents in Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT can call it as a tool. Add the hosted Apify MCP server and ask something like "get me 100 image results for vintage road bikes," and the agent works with the JSON directly, no scraping code.

Keywords & Topics

Google Images API, Google Images scraper, bulk image search, image dataset for machine learning, image SERP research, high-resolution image search, image rank tracking, pay-per-result scraping, MCP tool for AI agents.