Did you run into a person who you don’t know his name but a photograph? Now you can search for people by photo. What previously seemed impossible using a computer through a web browser. Now it can be done, as long as the photo shows someone’s profile or the image is of good quality.
If you are interested in finding and searching people by photo on Facebook, you are in the right place. It’s a quick and easy process that does not require the installation of third-party applications, just knowing a couple of tricks, a particular app and finding that person’s profile as long as the faces can be recognized.
What kind of photo can I use to search for people on Facebook?
To be able to search for people by photos in applications such as Facebook or Instagram, the most recommended thing is that it be a photograph where someone can be identified. That is, that recognizable faces appear in the image. In this way, when using a search app or website through a web browser, the results are favorable.
Methods to find people on Facebook with images
Two methods are generally used to find faces that appear in photos posted on social networks. One of them is using a web browser and the other is by the file name of the photo of that person that has been published. In any case, searching for people by photo boils down to the following:
Using TinEye
If you have the photograph of the person you want to find, you are one step away from achieving it. This is thanks to the fact that there are more than two billion users on social networks, especially Facebook or Instagram. So searching for people by photo is much easier than doing it on the internet through a browser.
You will only require your photo, have your phone number, either from other social networks like Twitter or Instagram. You can even take it from a Badoo profile, WhatsApp or any other app that you have installed on your mobile.
Now you must use a free online tool. It’s called TinEye, which is widely used for its effectiveness. One of the great advantages that this has is that it not only serves to search for people by photo, not only is it capable of detecting faces, but it also allows you to find that photo that had been lost on other social networks. To achieve your search goals, do the following from a computer with internet.
- Enter the official page of TinEye from any browser, either from a PC or mobile phone.
- On the home screen there is a button with an icon in the shape of an arrow pointing up. Click on it to enter the file explorer of your PC or computer and select the photo of the person you want to search for.
- The process may take some time as it searches a database that has over 40 billion images. At the end, it will show you the results obtained.
- If the search returns many results, you can filter by date and pages where the image is located. In the results will be the links to the places where the photo is located and a preview of the image.
Note: Sometimes the page indicates that there are no results. This does not mean that the person does not have a Facebook account. It may mean that you do not have access to the photo because it is private. This implies that no matter how many searches you do for someone, it will be impossible for you to find an image of that user, not that Tineye has limitations.
Using the name of a photo
The first thing you should consider to find a person with this method is that the name of the photo or image must have a particular form. Name must be structured by three numerical parts separated by an underscore or underscore (_). For example: 983864_10206161373732637_8588836150719200599_n.jpg
The photos that have names with this structure come from Facebook. If the photo you have of that user’s profile does not have this feature, then this method will not help you when finding someone.
Another important point is that the photo published on the profile must be public in order to access it. If the user has configured his profile and made it private, none of the applications will be able to find faces or images where he appears. With that said, we can now do the search for the photo on Facebook.
The first thing you should do is copy the second section of the photo name. Make a simple click on the image so you can edit the name and select the part of the text that interests us. Copy the text by right clicking or with the command Ctrl + C.
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These numbers represent the name under which it was hosted the photo on Facebook servers. Keep in mind that all social networks have unique servers on the internet.
Now you must enter the Facebook URL in the address bar, followed by a slash and the numbers you just copied and press Enter. The end result should be like this: https://www.facebook.com/10206161373732637.
We recommend doing this from a computer or PC to make the process easier. Keep in mind that the stability of the internet and the web browser influence the result when it comes to finding faces or someone registered on social networks.