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title: "Visual Search API lets you discover insights about an image such as visually similar images, shopping sources, and related searches. The API can also perform text recognition, identify entities (people, places, things), return other topical content for the user to explore, and more. For more information, see [Visual Search Overview](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/bing-visual-search/overview)."
method: POST
path: "/images/visualsearch"
tags: ["ImageVisualSearch"]
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# Visual Search API lets you discover insights about an image such as visually similar images, shopping sources, and related searches. The API can also perform text recognition, identify entities (people, places, things), return other topical content for the user to explore, and more. For more information, see \[Visual Search Overview\](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/bing-visual-search/overview).

`POST /images/visualsearch`

## Headers

- `X-BingApis-SDK` 'true', required
- `Accept` string
- `Accept-Language` string
- `Content-Type` string
- `User-Agent` string
- `X-MSEdge-ClientID` string
- `X-MSEdge-ClientIP` string
- `X-Search-Location` string

## Response `200`

Success.

- ImageKnowledge — Response base.
  - `_type` string

## Other responses

- `default` — An error has occurred. Check the response type and/or status code for more details.

## Changes

- **2018-04-26** `12d0c87e20c6` — 3 warning
  - deleted the `query` request parameter `mkt`
  - deleted the `query` request parameter `safeSearch`
  - deleted the `query` request parameter `setLang`

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/azure/apis/visual-search-client/changes/images/visualsearch/post.md)

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/azure/apis/visual-search-client.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/azure/apis/visual-search-client/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-production.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/azure/visual-search-client/revisions/ed4f2811e5eb/schema)