New authorization scheme using header instead of signature.
August 15, 2019
Updated documentation site with an entirely new design.
October 23, 2018
Some matches may return an extremely large number of backlinks. We have added a default limit of 100 backlinks per match to keep results manageableTo keep results manageable, we have added a default limit of 100 backlinks per match. This limit can be modified or removed using the backlink_limit argument to the search call.
Results to the search call can now be restricted to only stock sites or collections sites using the tag filter argument, or to a single domain using the domain filter argument.
March 19th, 2017
In keeping with secure authentication practices, we have moved to the HMAC-SHA256 algorithm for API request signing. To allow clients time to update their code, we will continue to accept HMAC-SHA1 signed requests until December 1st, 2017We will continue to accept HMAC-SHA1 signed requests until December 1st, 2017 to allow time for clients to update their code.
If a match result comes from a domain associated with stock or collection images, this is shown in the tags list returned from the search call. This replaces the contributor flag which was less specific and less flexible.
The stats object has been updated with more data about the search response. The total_backlinks, total_contributors and total_results fields were moved to the stats section and the total_contributors field was split into total_collection and total_stock.
The remaining_searches method now returns information on all non-expired search bundles with remaining searches instead of only the active bundle. The total_remaining_searches field counts all the searches you have remaining.
We added a domain field to the search results so you won’t need to do all that awful parsing (ugh!) of backlink URLs to get the website we found an image on.
We added the match_score, a number (0 to 100) that indicates how closely the search and matched images match each other.
June 10th, 2015
New TinEye API design.
Search page updated with image collection domain filter.
May 11th, 2015
Changed TinEye API search page to return same sorting order as TinEye.
Changed HTTP status codes from 500 to 400 for requests that are either missing parameters or are erroneous (e.g. Query image is too simple, or a string is provided instead of an integer).
