Google reverse image search using POST request

Question

I have an app that\'s basically a database of images stored on my local drive. Sometimes I need to find a higher resolution version or the web source of an image, and Google

Answer 1

This is easy to do if you're happy to install the requests module. The reverse image search workflow currently consists of a single POST request with a multipart body to an upload URL, the response to which is a redirect to the actual results page.

import requests
import webbrowser

filePath = '/mnt/Images/test.png'
searchUrl = 'http://www.google.hr/searchbyimage/upload'
multipart = {'encoded_image': (filePath, open(filePath, 'rb')), 'image_content': ''}
response = requests.post(searchUrl, files=multipart, allow_redirects=False)
fetchUrl = response.headers['Location']
webbrowser.open(fetchUrl)

Of course, remember that Google may decide to change this workflow at any point!