Search Public — by Image - Memories.ai API Tools

Search Public Videos by Image

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images \
  --header 'Authorization: <api-key>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  --form file='@example-file' \
  --form type=TIKTOK \
  --form similarity=0.85

import requests

url = "https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images"

files = { "file": ("example-file", open("example-file", "rb")) }
payload = {
    "type": "TIKTOK",
    "similarity": "0.85"
}
headers = {"Authorization": "<api-key>"}

response = requests.post(url, data=payload, files=files, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const form = new FormData();
form.append('file', '<string>');
form.append('type', 'TIKTOK');
form.append('similarity', '0.85');

const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {Authorization: '<api-key>'}};

options.body = form;

fetch('https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"type\"\r\n\r\nTIKTOK\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"similarity\"\r\n\r\n0.85\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: <api-key>",
    "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images"

	payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"type\"\r\n\r\nTIKTOK\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"similarity\"\r\n\r\n0.85\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "<api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images")
  .header("Authorization", "<api-key>")
  .body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"type\"\r\n\r\nTIKTOK\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"similarity\"\r\n\r\n0.85\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = '<api-key>'
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"type\"\r\n\r\nTIKTOK\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"similarity\"\r\n\r\n0.85\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "code": "0000",
  "msg": "success",
  "data": [
    {
      "videoNo": "PI-600947902470296459",
      "videoName": "Sample public video title",
      "startTime": "79",
      "endTime": "82",
      "score": 0.8631,
      "video_bucket": "mavi-public-video",
      "video_blob": "<scraper-id>.mp4",
      "keyframe_bucket": "mavi-public-keyframe",
      "keyframe_blob": "<uuid>/keyframe-000079.jpg"
    },
    {
      "videoNo": "PI-600947902470296460",
      "videoName": "Another public video",
      "startTime": "32",
      "endTime": "35",
      "score": 0.8712,
      "video_bucket": "mavi-public-video",
      "video_blob": "<scraper-id2>.mp4",
      "keyframe_bucket": "mavi-public-keyframe",
      "keyframe_blob": "<uuid2>/keyframe-000032.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "failed": false
}

POST

serve

api

search_public_similar_images

Search Public Videos by Image

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images \
  --header 'Authorization: <api-key>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  --form file='@example-file' \
  --form type=TIKTOK \
  --form similarity=0.85

import requests

url = "https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images"

files = { "file": ("example-file", open("example-file", "rb")) }
payload = {
    "type": "TIKTOK",
    "similarity": "0.85"
}
headers = {"Authorization": "<api-key>"}

response = requests.post(url, data=payload, files=files, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const form = new FormData();
form.append('file', '<string>');
form.append('type', 'TIKTOK');
form.append('similarity', '0.85');

const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {Authorization: '<api-key>'}};

options.body = form;

fetch('https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"type\"\r\n\r\nTIKTOK\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"similarity\"\r\n\r\n0.85\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: <api-key>",
    "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images"

	payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"type\"\r\n\r\nTIKTOK\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"similarity\"\r\n\r\n0.85\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "<api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images")
  .header("Authorization", "<api-key>")
  .body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"type\"\r\n\r\nTIKTOK\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"similarity\"\r\n\r\n0.85\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = '<api-key>'
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"type\"\r\n\r\nTIKTOK\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"similarity\"\r\n\r\n0.85\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "code": "0000",
  "msg": "success",
  "data": [
    {
      "videoNo": "PI-600947902470296459",
      "videoName": "Sample public video title",
      "startTime": "79",
      "endTime": "82",
      "score": 0.8631,
      "video_bucket": "mavi-public-video",
      "video_blob": "<scraper-id>.mp4",
      "keyframe_bucket": "mavi-public-keyframe",
      "keyframe_blob": "<uuid>/keyframe-000079.jpg"
    },
    {
      "videoNo": "PI-600947902470296460",
      "videoName": "Another public video",
      "startTime": "32",
      "endTime": "35",
      "score": 0.8712,
      "video_bucket": "mavi-public-video",
      "video_blob": "<scraper-id2>.mp4",
      "keyframe_bucket": "mavi-public-keyframe",
      "keyframe_blob": "<uuid2>/keyframe-000032.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "failed": false
}

Product: Visual Search Use case: Upload videos and images, auto-index them, then search by natural language, image, or transcript phrase Host: https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1 Auth: Authorization: sk-mavi-... (no Bearer prefix)

Upload a query image and retrieve visually similar frames from the pre-indexed public social-media library. For text queries see Search Public — by Text; for exact-phrase transcript search see Search Public — by Transcript.

Prerequisites

You have created a memories.ai API key.

Request Example

Uses multipart/form-data. The file part carries the query image; other parameters are sent as form fields.

import requests

headers = {"Authorization": "sk-mavi-..."}
files = [("file", ("query.png", open("query.png", "rb"), "image/png"))]
data = {"type": "TIKTOK", "similarity": 0.85}

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.memories.ai/serve/api/v1/search_public_similar_images",
    headers=headers,
    files=files,
    data=data
)
print(response.json())

Parameters

file

required

Query image. Allowed: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .webp. Maximum 20 MB.

type

string

default:"TIKTOK"

Platform to search. One of TIKTOK, YOUTUBE, INSTAGRAM.

similarity

number

default:"0.85"

Minimum similarity threshold (0 – 1). Only results with score ≥ this value are returned.

Response

{
    "code": "0000",
    "msg": "success",
    "data": [
        {
            "videoNo": "PI-600947902470296459",
            "videoName": "Sample public video title",
            "startTime": "79",
            "endTime": "82",
            "score": 0.8631,
            "video_bucket": "mavi-public-video",
            "video_blob": "<scraper-id>.mp4",
            "keyframe_bucket": "mavi-public-keyframe",
            "keyframe_blob": "<uuid>/keyframe-000079.jpg"
        }
    ],
    "success": true,
    "failed": false
}

data[].videoNo

string

Public video identifier (typically prefixed with PI-).

data[].videoName

string

Public video title or name.

data[].startTime

string

Matched keyframe start time, in seconds.

data[].endTime

string

Matched keyframe end time, in seconds.

data[].score

number

Visual similarity score (0 – 1).

data[].video_bucket

string

GCS bucket of our cached copy of the public video. Omitted when the storage location cannot be resolved.

data[].video_blob

string

GCS blob (object) path of the cached video. Use it with video_bucket at GET /serve/api/v2/download?bucket=&blob= to fetch the file directly.

data[].keyframe_bucket

string

GCS bucket of the matched keyframe image.

data[].keyframe_blob

string

GCS blob (object) path of the matched keyframe image.

Notes & Limits

Rate limiting: Exceeding the per-account rate limit returns an error. See Rate limits.
Billing: Each successful call deducts credits from your account balance.

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Body

multipart/form-data

file

required

Query image. Allowed extensions: .jpg/.jpeg/.png/.gif/.bmp/.webp. Content-Type must start with image/. Max 20 MB.

type

enum<string>

default:TIKTOK

Source platform to search within.

Available options:

TIKTOK,

YOUTUBE,

INSTAGRAM

similarity

number<double>

default:0.85

Minimum similarity threshold (0-1). Results below this score are filtered out.

Required range: 0 <= x <= 1

Response

200 - application/json

Successful response

code

string

Example:

"0000"

msg

string

Example:

"success"

data

object[]

Show child attributes

success

boolean

Example:

true

failed

boolean

Example:

false

Search Public — by Text Search Public — by Transcript

Get Started

Index Upload

Search

Library Management

Folder Management

Reference

Search Public — by Image

Prerequisites

Request Example

Parameters

Response

Notes & Limits

Authorizations

Body

Response

​Prerequisites

​Request Example

​Parameters

​Response

​Notes & Limits

Authorizations

Body

Response

Prerequisites

Request Example

Parameters

Response

Notes & Limits