Category: TinEye Updates

  • Introducing auto top-up for the TinEye API

    Introducing auto top-up for the TinEye API

    TinEye API auto-top-up feature

    You can now choose to auto top-up your account when you are running low on searches!

    The TinEye API is licensed via pre-paid search bundles. Our clients can purchase a search bundle of any size for their integration. This flexible pricing allows our clients to buy searches as and when they need them. The drawback to this flexibility is the need to manually buy more searches when their account is low. But now, that’s a thing of the past as we are introducing auto top-up for the TinEye API!

    When signing up for the API, you will still have the option of purchasing a single search bundle for your project, but if you need it, you can now opt for an auto top-up. When you select the auto top-up option, we’ll automatically add a new bundle to your account when you’ve used up all but 25% of your current bundle.

    The TinEye API is our solution for integrating and deploying reverse image search solutions. The API is used by clients large and small to verify images, moderate user-generated content, track images and brands, and deploy fraud detection and compliance solutions. Find out more, or ask us anything!

    Happy searching!

  • Announcing the TinEye extension for Edge

    Announcing the TinEye extension for Edge

    Microsoft Edge logo

    One of the easiest and most popular ways to use TinEye to search the web is with our official browser extensions. Just right-click on an image in your browser, click “Search Image on TinEye”, and see your results. Now, Microsoft Edge users can join Firefox, Chrome and Opera users with the new TinEye extension for Edge! (more…)

  • Search TinEye with copy and paste

    Search TinEye with copy and paste

    Search for an image by pasting it on the TinEye search page

    At TinEye, image searching is our passion, and one of our goals is to make it quick and easy for you to search the web for your images. To help with this, we have multiple ways to search an image on TinEye.com: you can give the address for an image on the web, upload an image file or even drag and drop an image file onto the TinEye homepage. We also offer browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome and Edge so you can search from a webpage just by clicking on an image on a website.

    Now, we’ve added a new way to search images on TinEye: copy and paste. Just copy any image to your clipboard and paste it on the TinEye search page to start searching! This is a great way to quickly search images that you’re working with in other applications, or even to search using screen shots.

    Happy searching!

  • Launching our interactive image recognition API documentation

    Launching our interactive image recognition API documentation

    In addition to our reverse image search engine TinEye (which is free to use by the way!), we also license our image-recognition solutions in the form APIs that you can integrate into your products and services. When you use one of our APIs, we want you to get up and running as quickly and easily as possible. To help with that, we’ve launched all new API documentation.

    The updated documentation’s clean new design makes it easy to quickly find the information that you need.

    WineEngine API documentation

    Each API has a new Getting Started guide to help you take your first steps. For example, for WineEngine, our wine label recognition API, the Getting Started guide walks you through adding images to your collection, searching images, extracting metadata from a wine label and managing your image collection.

    The centerpiece of the new documentation are the interactive code examples. You can edit, run and see the results of every API call directly from your browser! We’ve set up API sandboxes that already have images in them so you can start playing with them right away.

    Animated example of extract_label_metadata interactive code example

    The interactive code examples let you see how changing parameter values changes the code used to make the call. Required parameters are highlighted and optional parameters only appear when you use them.

    Animation show parameters changing in interactive code example

    Find the parameters that work for your needs using the interactive examples, select your preferred programming language, and then copy and paste the code to use as the basis for your own programs.

    Animation of selecting different languages in the interactive code examples

    Head over to the new API documentation page and get started with the TinEye image recognition APIs.

  • The Future of the TinEye Safari Extension

    The Future of the TinEye Safari Extension

    In the latest version of Safari Apple has discontinued support for extensions in favor of a new extension format. If you currently use the Safari extension you will see the following message when you first open your browser after updating to Safari version 13:

    Safari "extension no longer supported" message

    Apple’s new format no longer allows standalone extensions. Instead, you must first download an App and the App can install the extension. TinEye does not currently have a Mac App, but we are looking in to developing one in the near future.

    In the meantime, we suggest you consider using Firefox as an alternative. The TinEye extension is an official Firefox recommended extension, which means that it has been recognized as meeting “the highest standards of security, functionality, and user experience.” We also offer a TinEye extension for Chrome. We hope you’ll give one of them a try until our App release. Who knows? You may never be go back to Safari! :)

    Happy searching!

     

  • Introducing profile pages for all TinEye APIs

    Introducing profile pages for all TinEye APIs

    You asked and we listened! We’re excited to launch our client profile pages and analytics for all our TinEye APIs. You can use the API analytics page to check:

    • your search usage: this is the total number of searches you have completed using the API
    • and your image collection size: which is the total number of images you uploaded via the API.

    You’ll also find a summary there of your charges and billing details.

    To check out your new profile pages, just login into your TinEye Services account. Once logged in you can access your profile, analytics and billing pages. The analytics page allows you to explore your usage of the API and view performance data.

    TinEye API Analytics

    Average search time tracks the daily performance of our API. Generally you should see consistent performance unless you dramatically increase the size of your image collection. If you have any questions about performance just get in touch, we’ll be happy to help. One tip to keep your searches fast is to avoid using slower hosts when providing query files via URL.

    The Searches and Images section displays the number of searches you’re running, broken down by day, and the size of your collection.

    Each chart can be viewed as a table if you prefer. You can also download the data as a CSV to analyze or store it offline.

    We hope this new capability helps you better manage and understand your API use. Again, you are always free to get in touch if you have any questions or suggestions.

  • Reset your TinEye password!

    Reset your TinEye password!

    If you have a TinEye user account we recommend that you reset your password today.

    This is due to the Cloudflare security issue.

    How do I change my TinEye.com password?

    1. Login to your account here.
    2. Change your password on this page.

    If you can’t remember your current password, you can request a password reset.

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  • TinEye: Better look, faster search + filtering

    Hello TinEye fans! If you have dropped by TinEye recently,  you will have noticed our new TinEye design. We’ve been busy, quietly releasing a number of updates both for you and our corporate image recognition clients. Today, we would like to tell you about what we have done to make TinEye more useful to you, our fans.

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  • Did someone say 10 billion? Yes, we did!

    10Billion-tineye

    TinEye fans, we hope that you wrap up your week with as much excitement as we have here in the TinEye HQ! We’ve reached 10 billion images and are gearing up for the next 10 billion. And thanks for joining us in this awesome adventure.

    Happy searching and have an awesome weekend!

  • Extending our Extensions

    We have a few TinEye browser extension updates to tell you about. The extensions let you search for images with just a right click, to make TinEye searches as easy as can be!

    The biggest news: we have a new Opera extension that works with the new Opera. Good idea, what? Lots of people were asking for this one, and now it’s here.

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