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   <section id="tineye">
 <span id="tineye-engine"></span><h1>Tineye<a class="headerlink" href="#tineye" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
 <p id="module-searx.engines.tineye">This engine implements <em>Tineye - reverse image search</em></p>
 <p>Using TinEye, you can search by image or perform what we call a reverse image
 search.  You can do that by uploading an image or searching by URL. You can also
 simply drag and drop your images to start your search.  TinEye constantly crawls
 the web and adds images to its index.  Today, the TinEye index is over 50.2
 billion images <a class="reference external" href="https://tineye.com/how">[tineye.com]</a>.</p>
 <div class="admonition hint">
 <p class="admonition-title">Hint</p>
 <p>This SearXNG engine only supports <em>‘searching by URL’</em> and it does not use
 the official API <a class="reference external" href="https://api.tineye.com/python/docs/">[api.tineye.com]</a>.</p>
 </div>
 <dl class="py data">
 <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.tineye.engine_type">
 <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.tineye.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">engine_type</span></span><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'online_url_search'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.tineye.engine_type" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 <dd><p><a class="reference internal" href="../../../src/searx.search.processors.html#module-searx.search.processors.online_url_search" title="searx.search.processors.online_url_search"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">searx.search.processors.online_url_search</span></code></a></p>
 </dd></dl>
 <dl class="py data">
 <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.tineye.FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED">
 <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.tineye.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED</span></span><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'Could</span> <span class="pre">not</span> <span class="pre">read</span> <span class="pre">that</span> <span class="pre">image</span> <span class="pre">url.</span> <span class="pre">This</span> <span class="pre">may</span> <span class="pre">be</span> <span class="pre">due</span> <span class="pre">to</span> <span class="pre">an</span> <span class="pre">unsupported</span> <span class="pre">file</span> <span class="pre">format.</span> <span class="pre">TinEye</span> <span class="pre">only</span> <span class="pre">supports</span> <span class="pre">images</span> <span class="pre">that</span> <span class="pre">are</span> <span class="pre">JPEG,</span> <span class="pre">PNG,</span> <span class="pre">GIF,</span> <span class="pre">BMP,</span> <span class="pre">TIFF</span> <span class="pre">or</span> <span class="pre">WebP.'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.tineye.FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 <dd><p>TinEye error message</p>
 </dd></dl>
 <dl class="py data">
 <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.tineye.NO_SIGNATURE_ERROR">
 <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.tineye.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">NO_SIGNATURE_ERROR</span></span><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'The</span> <span class="pre">image</span> <span class="pre">is</span> <span class="pre">too</span> <span class="pre">simple</span> <span class="pre">to</span> <span class="pre">find</span> <span class="pre">matches.</span> <span class="pre">TinEye</span> <span class="pre">requires</span> <span class="pre">a</span> <span class="pre">basic</span> <span class="pre">level</span> <span class="pre">of</span> <span class="pre">visual</span> <span class="pre">detail</span> <span class="pre">to</span> <span class="pre">successfully</span> <span class="pre">identify</span> <span class="pre">matches.'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.tineye.NO_SIGNATURE_ERROR" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 <dd><p>TinEye error message</p>
 </dd></dl>
 <dl class="py data">
 <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.tineye.DOWNLOAD_ERROR">
 <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.tineye.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DOWNLOAD_ERROR</span></span><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'The</span> <span class="pre">image</span> <span class="pre">could</span> <span class="pre">not</span> <span class="pre">be</span> <span class="pre">downloaded.'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.tineye.DOWNLOAD_ERROR" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 <dd><p>TinEye error message</p>
 </dd></dl>
 <dl class="py function">
 <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.tineye.request">
 <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.tineye.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">request</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">query</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">params</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../../_modules/searx/engines/tineye.html#request"><span class="viewcode-link"><span class="pre">[source]</span></span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.tineye.request" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 <dd><p>Build TinEye HTTP request using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">search_urls</span></code> of a <a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.tineye.engine_type" title="searx.engines.tineye.engine_type"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">engine_type</span></code></a>.</p>
 </dd></dl>
 <dl class="py function">
 <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.tineye.parse_tineye_match">
 <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.tineye.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">parse_tineye_match</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">match_json</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../../../_modules/searx/engines/tineye.html#parse_tineye_match"><span class="viewcode-link"><span class="pre">[source]</span></span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.tineye.parse_tineye_match" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 <dd><p>Takes parsed JSON from the API server and turns it into a <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict" title="(in Python v3.13)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dict</span></code></a>
 object.</p>
 <p>Attributes <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/TinEye/pytineye/blob/main/pytineye/api.py">(class Match)</a></p>
 <ul class="simple">
 <li><p><cite>image_url</cite>, link to the result image.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>domain</cite>, domain this result was found on.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>score</cite>, a number (0 to 100) that indicates how closely the images match.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>width</cite>, image width in pixels.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>height</cite>, image height in pixels.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>size</cite>, image area in pixels.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>format</cite>, image format.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>filesize</cite>, image size in bytes.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>overlay</cite>, overlay URL.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>tags</cite>, whether this match belongs to a collection or stock domain.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>backlinks</cite>, a list of Backlink objects pointing to the original websites
 and image URLs. List items are instances of <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict" title="(in Python v3.13)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dict</span></code></a>, (<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/TinEye/pytineye/blob/main/pytineye/api.py">Backlink</a>):</p>
 <ul>
 <li><p><cite>url</cite>, the image URL to the image.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>backlink</cite>, the original website URL.</p></li>
 <li><p><cite>crawl_date</cite>, the date the image was crawled.</p></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </dd></dl>
 <dl class="py function">
 <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.tineye.response">
 <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.tineye.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">response</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">resp</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">&#x2192;</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="../index.html#searx.result_types.EngineResults" title="searx.result_types.EngineResults"><span class="pre">EngineResults</span></a></span></span><a class="reference internal" href="../../../_modules/searx/engines/tineye.html#response"><span class="viewcode-link"><span class="pre">[source]</span></span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.tineye.response" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 <dd><p>Parse HTTP response from TinEye.</p>
 </dd></dl>
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