RMB > Search for Image - no longer working

bac

Hi,
when I try to reverse search image using Google ( RMB > Search for Image ) it does not work anymore. The Google says "Search by image is not available. Please try again in a few hours."... it has been 2 days.

I tried update to current version - does not help.
I tried reset Google image search string - does not help.

https://www.google.com/searchbyimage/upload

encoded_image={google:imageThumbnail},image_url={google:imageURL},sbisrc={google:imageSearchSource},original_width={google:imageOriginalWidth},original_height={google:imageOriginalHeight}

Is the search string broken somehow?

I want only reverse image search. I do not want Lens.

iAN CooG

somehow the url for searching google images changed, see here how to fix in search engine settings
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/90106/quick-crash-fix-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-3120-3/15?_=1693663443509

bac

@iAN-CooG

Image Search URL:
{google:baseSearchByImageURL}upload
Image Search POST Parameters:
encoded_image={google:imageThumbnail}

Does not work (at least for me).

iAN CooG

@bac It does for me, I don't know what to say

bac

@iAN-CooG
I mean is this setting correct?

iAN CooG

no, you have to copy the whole string in both fields, probably you left out some parts
Image search URL:
{google:baseSearchByImageURL}upload
Image Search POST parms:
encoded_image={google:imageThumbnail}

bac

@iAN-CooG
the whole string is there it is just cropped by the input field. Copied and pasted.

The source image is not passed to Google search.

Pathduck

@bac Please explain in detail what you're doing, are you right-clicking an image and choosing "Search for image"?

Give an example site where you're testing this search.

thenew

@bac fellow frustrated buddy here.

By any chance you set vivaldi://flags/#enable-lens-standalone to Disable?

I turn it back to Default now the 'changing Search URL & Parameter' method worked.

Of course it needs to relaunch the whole browser to take effect.

bac

@Pathduck said in RMB > Search for Image - no longer working:

in detail

Hover mouse cursor over the image
RMB
LMB - Search for Image

example = image from your post.

Settings - Search:

Image Search Engine: Google
Search Engines - Google
Google setting as already posted (cropped by the field)

Results:

IF vivaldi://flags/#enable-lens-standalone = Disable
Nothing happens - Google says it does not work at the moment and even the thumbnail is not passed.
IF vivaldi://flags/#enable-lens-standalone = Default
It opens Lens where I can show the source of the image but it is pretty much useless for reverse search. The original Image search is 100 times better.

Pathduck

@bac said in RMB > Search for Image - no longer working:

IF vivaldi://flags/#enable-lens-standalone = Default

The flag should be set to Default. I don't know why some users mess with flags they don't understand. Not saying you did but leave flags alone (Default).

It opens Lens where I can show the source of the image but it is pretty much useless for reverse search. The original Image search is 100 times better.

Good, then it's working. That's all there is.
If you want to complain, talk to Google.

There's also TinEye which is the orginal reverse image search. And Bing of course. Also Yandex but I'm not touching that for obvious reasons.

thenew

@bac

the 'Find image source' is the new reverse search now

微信截图_20230903021440.png

AND if you really missed the old reverse search,
there's a discontinued extension called 'Search by image(by Google)'.

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bac

OK, thank you all.

I know I can use Lens for finding the image source but it can not filter sizes, it only makes a list, not array of results... pretty much useless.

I hoped I could bring the old search back to life somehow - it works with with this extension "Search by Image (armin.dev)" for now - thanks for the hint.

Pathduck

Try this for the Image Search URL:
https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?sbisrc=cr_1_5_2&image_url={google:imageURL}
Leave the POST params empty.

I got this from reverse-engineering what the extension does.
Problems:

No clue what the sbisrc=cr_1_5_2 parameter means, probably some Google-internal flag. But without it, it fails.
Google could change this parameter at any point
This is a bit slower than the "usual" way which appears to be making a BLOB of the image locally before uploading it, since it has to get the image from the source server first.
Google could stop this from working at any point

bac

@Pathduck said in RMB > Search for Image - no longer working:

Try this for the Image Search URL:
https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?sbisrc=cr_1_5_2&image_url={google:imageURL}
Leave the POST params empty.

It works! Thank you!

Gregor

I use this method:

Try this for the Image Search URL:
https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?sbisrc=cr_1_5_2&image_url={google:imageURL}
Leave the POST params empty.

+ RevEye Reverse Image Search
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/reveye-reverse-image-sear/keaaclcjhehbbapnphnmpiklalfhelgf?hl=pl

bac

@Gregor RevEye Reverse Image Search uses Lens.

Gregor

@bac Yes, that's why I use also the first method with the classic google image search.

solidsnake

I use https://imgops.com for image searching. It makes searching a two step process, but it gives a choice of several image search engines (google, bing, yandex, tineye...) plus some image related operations.
url:
http://imgops.com/start?url=%s
Image search url:
http://imgops.com/start?url={google:imageURL}