Spot fake profiles and stolen photos — built on the FaceSeek Face Search API.
Given a profile photo, it runs a reverse face search and flags when the same face appears across unrelated sites or under different identities — a strong signal of a catfish.
This example sends a photo to the FaceSeek reverse face search API, which looks for the same face across the public web (not just an identical image file) and returns the matching source URLs with a similarity score.
git clone https://github.com/faceseek-online/catfish-detector.git
cd catfish-detector
pip install -r requirements.txt
export FACESEEK_API_KEY="fsk_your_key"
python main.py path/to/photo.jpgGet a free API key at www.faceseek.online — free daily searches are included.
- 📖 Guide: How to Catch a Catfish
- 🔎 Try it live: Catfish Detector
- 📚 API docs: https://www.faceseek.online/api-docs
- 🌐 FaceSeek: https://www.faceseek.online
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