Yandex Search Engine is the most popular search engine, especially for Russian content. Similar to Google's Reverse Image Search, Yandex Reverse Image Search allows you to search for information, related web pages, and similar images from your images.


You can upload an image directly from your device or search with an image URL. By using results from Yandex Reverse Image Search, you can verify the authenticity or source of the image. It's useful for detecting misinformation, fake images, etc.

You can monitor the copyright and intellectual property rights on your images. Yandex Reverse Image Search can return your recognized objects and products, and you can get more information and purchase options.

You may also need to find higher-resolution versions or explore similar images for creative AI applications. Yandex Reverse Image Search can empower you to explore more images and results.

Scraping Yandex Reverse Image Search results is not an easy task, it's more challenging, and unreliable when you are an expert scraper. With SerpApi Yandex Reverse Image Search API, we provide an easy way to scrape the Yandex Reverse Images.

Setting Up a SerpApi Account

SerpApi offers a free plan for newly created accounts. Head to the sign-up page to register an account and complete your first search with our interactive playground. When you want to do more searches with us, please visit the pricing page.

Once you are familiar with all the results, you can utilize SERP APIs using your API Key.

Scrape your First Yandex Reverse Image Results with SerpApi

Head to the Yandex Reverse Image API from the documentation on SerpApi for details.

In this tutorial, we will scrape all image results when searching the "Dyson V8" image . The data contains: "title", "snippet", "source", "link", "thumbnail", "original_image", and more. You can also scrape more information with SerpApi.

First, you need to install the SerpApi client library.

pip install google-search-results

Set up the SerpApi credentials and search.

from serpapi import GoogleSearch
import os, json, csv

params = {
    'api_key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',             # your serpapi api
    'engine': 'yandex_images',              # SerpApi search engine
    'url': 'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wannder.ro%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F04%2Ffdb_1584453348_v8-motorhead.png'
}

To retrieve Yandex Reverse Image Results for a given search query, you can use the following code:

results = GoogleSearch(params).get_dict()['image_results']

You can store Yandex Reverse Image Results JSON data in databases or export them to a CSV file.

import csv


header = ["title", "snippet", "source", "link", "thumbnail", "original_image"]

with open("yandex_reverse_image_results.csv", "w", encoding="UTF8", newline="") as f:
    writer = csv.writer(f)
    writer.writerow(header)
    for item in results:
        writer.writerow([item.get('title'), item.get('snippet'), item.get('source'), item.get('link'), item.get('thumbnail'), item.get('original_image')])

This example is using Python, but you can also use all your favorite programming languages like Ruby, NodeJS, Java, PHP, and more.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.