The Yandex Reverse Image Search API turns any image URL into structured JSON. Give it a public image link and it queries Yandex's reverse image engine to find where that image appears online, visually similar images, other resolutions of the same file, product matches with prices, descriptive tags, and an entity card when the subject is recognizable. Every row is labeled by result_type, and toggles let you pick which kinds of matches a run returns. Billing is pay per result with a hard cap you set, so a small test run costs very little.

It is built for photographers and brands tracking unauthorized image use, fact-checkers and OSINT researchers tracing a photo to its first appearance, and e-commerce teams hunting marketplace listings that copy their product photos.

Example Tasks & Use Cases

Reverse image search with Yandex, results as JSON - the base call: one image URL in, typed result rows out, ready for CSV or a database.

Find where an image appears online with Yandex - matching pages with title, link, and snippet for usage tracking and takedowns.

Trace an image to its original source with Yandex - other sizes and earlier appearances for provenance and fact-checking work.

Find visually similar images from an image URL - lookalikes with thumbnails and source links for ML datasets and content curation.

Find products from an image with Yandex - e-commerce listings that match a product photo, with prices, for counterfeit detection.

Reverse image search in Claude via MCP - run the whole thing as a tool call from an AI agent, no scraping code.

Works with MCP

The Actor runs over MCP, so Claude, Claude Code, and Cursor can call it as a tool. Paste an image URL into a conversation and ask where else it appears online, and the agent returns structured rows straight from Yandex. Start from the Yandex Reverse Image Search API.

Keywords & Topics

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