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TLDR: Badly organized lazy man with lots of e-clutter wanted easy reverse image search from right-click menu function and had to make a catbox shortcut first so it would work.

Sooo—I had all these disorganized image files downloaded from the internet with file names like "2FI0alKYqxo7REUyA0d0InfxQrf0ad.png" with no metadata and terrible orginizational skills so I went looking for a tool that would enable me to initiate one or more reverse image searches from the right-click context menu in the Finder.   

It didn't exist.  Long story short, I had to build the catbox upload tool to make the reverse-search one work, and it took me so long to get them both working that I am making them available for free here so nobody has to spend the amount of time I just did for a relatively minor convenience,.

Both tools are possible thanks to MineBartekSA on GitHub, who's catbox-cli API tool is the foundation of both shortcuts.  Many thanks to Catbox too, of course, who's free, patreon-supported file hosting site enables both of these tools to work; 

Please abide by Catbox's terms of service and don't abuse the privledge of free hosting  by uploading illegal content.  If you are feeling grateful you can donate or buy some merch to support them, and if you aren't — just look at dropbox's current prices if you need some inspiration.

The reverse image search tool uploads files temporarily to litterbox.catbox.moe, generating a temporary url for your image that is then appended to the visual search prefixes of the four major reverse search providers — images searched with disappear from litterbox after one hour (image retention policies may differ for Google, Yandex, TinEye & Bing though FYI).

I have no affiliation with Catbox LLC, Git/MineBartekSA, Alphabet Inc., Yandex, TinEye or Apple except that I use of things that all of them made.

Everything made available for free on a strictly "as is" basis with no acceptance of liability of any kind blah blah etc., but feel free to contact me if something is broken and I might take a look at it.   

Scripts don't run on iOS Shortcuts, period, so neither will either of these apps.  You can try and reconfigure them to work without script on iOS, but good luck with that...  Do let me know if you actually pull that off, 'cause I would use these on my phone too if I could.  These will probably also work only with newer versions of MacOS because the Shortcuts App with integrated script functionality that they run in is relatively new.