Announcing our new, free, open API
Today face.com is proud to announce the opening of our platform APIs! After scanning billions of photos and tagging over 50 million users through Photo Tagger and Photo Finder, we’re moving ahead with our goal of making face recognition approachable and available to all. In this open alpha stage, we’re letting any developer tap into our face detection and face recognition tech through simple REST API calls. Whether you’re looking to build a cool photo tagging application, create personalized e-cards or campaigns, or any other sci-fi idea that comes to mind, we’re here to serve.
A friend of the company, world-famous programmer, developer and founder of Technorati David Sifry got an early look at our API. In David’s own words: “I’ve been impressed with Face.com’s API, and their plan for working closely with developers to build great applications that incorporate face detection and face recognition. Open platforms like this one will enable the creation of exciting new applications that we’ve never seen before at scale.”
Getting started is easy – once you sign-up you’ll be able to generate your API key, and start generating API calls. Check out the API Sandbox where you can visually test out the API methods, our examples, or the full API documentation. For a primer on how face recognition is best used, check out our Recognition How-To page.
Let us know what you think on our forums, twitter, facebook page, contact page, or directly at feedback@face.com.
Looking forward to seeing what uses people come up with!
Suppose I habe a picture of a person I don’t know and am no facebook friend of.
Suppose it’s a good picture and your software is able to match it against your facebook picture database.
What happens if I put this picture into your API?
Will I get the name of the person?
I’m Gil Hirsch, CEO of face.com. When it comes to facebook or twitter users, only the facebook friends of the user accessing the system can be recognized. This and other privacy mechanisms make sure that whatever settings you have on facebook apply on face.com as well.
If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me directly at gil@face.com!
I’m confused do u join this or something?
good work.
I asure continuing to use this web site
Any sample code available for iPhone/Objective-C?
When I click on Get Started, nothing happens.
fine