Pixiv Image Similarity Search Engine

Hello, I've recently been wondering, and since this community uses pixiv so much, it's likely that one of you would have the answer.

Does pixiv have any kind of similarity search engine? Like how you can find similar images on Danbooru in order to know if you have dupes, or want to find if the artist on a picture you like has done other stuff.

I ask because ever since multipage pixiv uploads have been established, there can be characters from multiple series in one post, and the tags often don't indicate this fact.

Any help or information is appreciated, thank you.

I don't think there's a search engine dedicated to pixiv but there is http://saucenao.com/ that includes pixiv in its searches.

Saucenao is not accurate. Everytime I used it it gave me wrong source.

What do you mean? I've never gotten the wrong source.

If you mean the wrong image yes that can happen because it gives you the nearest hit rather than only giving you a hit if it's 99%. It happens just as often on piespy's edition.

I think I now what he means.

Unlike iqdb, it takes quite some time for a pixiv image to be archived in saucenao and that's why it occasionally returns the wrong source even if the image is on pixiv.

It gives you the correct result after a few days though.

Tried putting my image through there, got no direct hits sadly. Perhaps I'll try again at a later date.

Grahf said:
I ask because ever since multipage pixiv uploads have been established, there can be characters from multiple series in one post, and the tags often don't indicate this fact.

Wait, this wouldn't even help in this instance, it will only point you to where the image is and if it's part of a multipage image, even assuming those get cataloged, it would just link you back to the multipage image you submitted.

Uploading it and hoping someone recognizes it or messaging the author are the only ways you can really find out in this case.

http://saucenao.com handles the 'manga' galleries (image sets) just fine. If an image is from the middle of a gallery though, SauceNAO will show the correct match image, but will link to the 'cover page' for that ID. You can tell an ID has multiple images by looking in the lower right corner. If there is a border that looks like a stack of pages, it's a gallery. Click on the main image to enter the gallery.

Unfortunately, SauceNAO is not automated. It only gets updated when I get the time to do so. (every few weeks) Pixiv is currently indexed up to ID 12108168, anything newer than that cannot be searched for. I'm in the process of updating right now though, so in the next day or two it should be caught up again~

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