Google Custom Search API Search Image by Image URL

Question

I am working on an application which will have an option for users to upload images. Once uploaded, the application will show other images from the web which look exactly similar, whether or not of the same size.

For this, I will create a temporary URL for the image so that I could provide Google custom search API the URL of the image. I would expect in response, URL's of images that are exactly the same or similar to it, perhaps in JSON format.

I did find a similar question posted in January. Till then Google did not support anything like this, apparently:

Google Javascript Custom Search API: Search images by image url

One can also simply do:

http://images.google.com/searchbyimage?site=search&image_url={Image URL}

Since that is not part of an official API, it may not be right to use this method.

Can someone help me?

Answer 1

Well, the answer quite simply is TinEye Commercial API https://api.tineye.com/welcome. I was looking in the wrong place I guess, I did not have any luck with Google Custom Search API.