RoutineHub • Get Sauce

Get Sauce

Reverse Image Search for Manga, Anime, CGs, etc. with 10 Different Search Engines

Description

Get Sauce makes it easy to find the sources of your images.

Run it directly or through a share sheet.

App Version

I was tired of Shortcuts getting even slower and buggier on iOS 15, so I created an App.
It requires iOS 14 or later, so if you are using iOS 13, continue to use the shortcut version.

Supported Search Engines

Get Sauce supports the following 10 different search engines:

SauceNAO
IQDB
二次元画像詳細検索 ― Ascii2d
WAIT: What Anime Is This? ― trace.moe
Karma Decay (3.0+)
TinEye Reverse Image Search
Google Images
Bing Visual Search (3.0+)
百度识图搜索 ― Baidu Images
Яндекс.Картинки ― Yandex Images

3.2 UPDATE: Added customization feature!
You can now hide the search engines you don’t use in Settings. (Especially if you’re not into anime.)

Screenshots

iOS 14	iOS 13

Required Permissions

You may get confirmation alerts the first time you run Get Sauce or after an update. Be sure to allow all of them for the shortcut to run properly.

Run other shortcuts (Only on iOS 13)
- Action-tracking scrolling significantly degrades performance. To prevent it, the shortcut re-runs itself in the background.
iCloud Drive
- Save the configuration file (/Shortcuts/Get Sauce/config.json).
- Browse and import your image files.
Clipboard
- Check if the clipboard has contents.
- Import images or URLs from the clipboard.
Camera
- Take photos and import them.
Photo Library
- Create Use Latest Photo preview icon.
- Browse and import your photo media.
Internet (Required for each domain)
- Used for various purposes such as checking for updates, obtaining image URLs, and calling APIs.

iOS 15 (Beta)

Apple is making privacy protection stricter in iOS 15, so you may encounter errors while running the shortcut.
Please go to Settings App → Shortcuts → Advanced and turn on the Allow Sharing Large Amounts of Data switch.

Supported Media Links

Most URLs are treated as image URLs, but it supports the following services’ shared links:

Twitter*, Facebook*, Instagram*, Reddit, Sharesome, YouTube, Pornhub, Dailymotion, Niconico, Bilibili

* Experimental; It uses HTML meta tag matching.

Translation

Latest Release Notes

4.3.1 - June 20, 2021, 1:55 p.m.

This update is mainly for minor enhancements and fixes.
• Revised the menu hierarchy structure (number → text list).
• Improved timestamp accuracy to milliseconds.

== 4.3 ==
I’m currently working on fixing an issue where uploaded images cannot be searched on SauceNAO or IQDB, and experimentally changing the image hosting to ImgBB.
If you run into any issues, please send me feedback and use Get Sauce 4.2 or earlier.

Version history

Feedback

@CrypticWing

I'd suggest also adding an option to upload to imgops.com in the future and possibly the feature to allow users to remove certain sources that they don't use
Reply · 2 years, 6 months ago

@MMP0 Author

Thank you for the feedback! I’d like to implement the features you suggested in the near future.
Reply · 2 years, 6 months ago

@FifiTheBulldog

This is awesome! One request, though: could you please add the option to use the clipboard? I’ve started using this regularly for Reddit, but when I copy an image from a post instead of saving it to my photo library to check the source (because the OP didn’t provide a source), I’ve had to use a little shortcut I made that passes the clipboard as input to this. It would be more efficient if that was built into this shortcut.
Reply · 2 years, 2 months ago

@MMP0 Author

Thank you for your feedback! The clipboard feature will be implemented in the next major update, 3.0. Also, an issue where the images on apps cannot be input to shortcuts has been fixed in iOS 13.4, so you can find the source by opening the share sheet of an image on Reddit and running Get Sauce directly through it.
Reply · 2 years, 1 month ago

@shorty444

Glad you're still on it and it is not abandoned. One of the best shortcuts I have seen.
Reply · 2 years ago

@MMP0 Author

Thank you so much! I’m honored!
Reply · 2 years ago

@DoctorVadarWho

Can you please make a standalone Yandex image reverse search shortcut I don't want the other stuff that is in this one
Reply · 1 year, 12 months ago

cool
Reply · 1 year, 8 months ago

@BaronKrause

This is amazing! Is there any chance it would it be possible to have the results open in the set default browser (like if you have Chrome installed and set as the default) instead of automatically opening in Safari? Thank you!
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@MMP0 Author

Thank you for your feedback and compliments! Yes, the shortcut currently uses In-App Safari. I didn’t think about third party browsers since I only use Safari. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. I plan to add an option to open with the default browser instead of In-App Safari in the next minor update. Thank you :) Edit: Added Browser option in 4.1.
Reply · 1 year, 3 months ago

@BaronKrause

Don’t know when it started but recently it’s only able to use saucenao from a browser, running it from the share menu of a Reddit app like Apollo or a Twitter app like Tweetbot or Fenix always seems to come up with a saucenao page saying essentially that you didn’t search with an image. Other search engines work as expected with those pictures however, even IQDB which can then be used to search that image with saucenao from the results page.
Reply · 1 year, 1 month ago

@MMP0 Author

Thank you for the feedback, and sorry for the late reply. It seems that SauceNAO and IQDB temporarily stopped accepting GET query requests for about a month for some reason.
Reply · 1 year ago

@BaronKrause

You bet! I just tested it again from Apollo and Tweetbot and they both get “You need an Image! ...GO BACK TO START...” messages from Saucenao, but if you open the image in safari and then use get sauce, it works fine. It’s only saucenao for some reason. The other search engines in get sauce works fine from any app.
Reply · 1 year ago

@MMP0 Author

I’ve released 4.2 update. Experimentally changed the image hosting (See the release notes for details). I hope it works for you.
Reply · 11 months, 2 weeks ago

@FifiTheBulldog

Hi there! Still using and loving this shortcut, especially with the new image host. One small bug to report: could you get rid of the subtitles for SauceNAO, IQDB, and ascii2d from the last three options in the image search menu? They’re a bit out of place on those menu items. https://i.imgur.com/D4HXkyf.jpg
Reply · 11 months, 1 week ago

@MMP0 Author

Thank you for your feedback! It’s a drawing bug in the Shortcuts App that has been around since iOS 14. I’ve sent feedback to Apple before but they still haven’t fixed it.
Reply · 11 months, 1 week ago

@djsnipa1

Wow this is a very nicely done shortcut! Thank you!
Reply · 9 months, 3 weeks ago

@MMP0 Author

Thank you too!
Reply · 9 months, 3 weeks ago

@lpfchan

I'm getting NSFileProviderErrorDomain -1005 error upon launch. I'm running iPadOS 15 beta and "Allow Sharing Large Amounts of Data" option is turned on. It used to work fine on my previous iPad but it's my first time launching this shortcut on my new iPad.
Reply · 9 months ago

@MMP0 Author

Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for your feedback! Please make sure that your device is signed in to iCloud and that you have allowed the shortcut to access iCloud Drive. If that doesn’t help, try restarting your device, deleting Shortcuts App (if your device is syncing with iCloud, your shortcuts gallery will not be lost), and re-downloading it from App Store. Or, please contact Apple Support.
Reply · 8 months, 2 weeks ago

@lpfchan

Uninstalling and reinstalling Shortcuts app did the trick! Thanks for your reply <3
Reply · 8 months, 2 weeks ago