How to use Google Lens API

Create a payload with job parameters and insert an image URL. Next, submit the request to the API and choose between output formats: either HTML or structured JSON.

Take a look at a code sample of the output showcased to the right, and visit our technical documentation for more details.

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{
  "results":[
    {
      "content":"...",
      "created_at":"2024-04-08 13:10:21",
      "updated_at":"2024-04-08 13:10:27",
      "page":1,
      "url":"https://lens.google.com/uploadbyurl?url=https://oxylabs.io/images/og-image.png&uule=w+CAIQICINdW5pdGVkIHN0YXRlcw&gl=us&hl=en",
      "job_id":"7183088783418472449",
      "status_code":200
    }
  ]
}

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Frequently asked questions

Building an image-based search app requires machine learning and is generally considered to be a difficult undertaking.

Cloud Vision API is the official service that provides programmatic access to Google Lens image analysis capabilities. You can integrate Cloud Vision API into your applications to use its functionality for recognizing image types.

The API uses AI models for text detection (OCR), face, object, and explicit content recognition.

You can build your own image scraping software using one of many programming languages. To make it simpler, use all-in-one web scraping tools, such as Oxylabs’ Google Lens Scraper API. Follow this short tutorial to scrape Google Lens results using Python.

Yes, you can get a free trial with up to 2K results.

Here are the differences between the three when used as generic terms:

Google Image Search API, known as Custom Search JSON API, integrates Google’s web and image search into your applications.
Google Reverse Image Search is a web-based tool for finding related images.
Google Lens API is a generic name for Google Cloud Vision API, a tool for enabling Google Lens functionality in your apps.