n8n Workflow: Google Lens Image Copyright Tracker to Google Sheets

Track where your images appear online—automatically add exact matches to Google Sheets

This n8n workflow checks your monitored images every week using Apify’s Google Lens API, finds confirmed exact-match pages, and appends the results (including URL, rank, title, and image dimensions) to a Google Sheets usage log.

What this workflow does

• Runs weekly (every Monday morning) on a schedule.
• Loads a list of image URLs to monitor and a maxMatchesPerImage limit for how many matches to return per image.
• For each image URL, calls the Apify Google Lens API actor (johnvc~google-lens-api) in exact-match mode.
• Keeps only confirmed matches returned by the Google Lens exact-match lookup.
• Formats each match into a single Google Sheets row containing:
  • Week date
  • Source image URL
  • Detected page details (site, title, URL, rank)
  • Image dimensions
• Appends rows to your selected spreadsheet tab for ongoing tracking.

Use cases

• Brand and asset monitoring: detect where specific product or campaign images are reused online.
• Digital rights / attribution checks: maintain a rolling log of exact-match pages for particular images.
• Competitive or marketplace auditing: identify instances where images appear across web pages over time.
• SaaS operations tracking: keep a weekly evidence trail in Google Sheets for internal review.

Technical details

• Apify: Uses the johnvc~google-lens-api actor with your Apify API token.
• Google Sheets: Connected in n8n to append detected matches to a chosen spreadsheet and sheet/tab.
• n8n nodes (as provided): set, code, filter, split out, and a Sticky Note for workflow guidance.

Replace the example imageUrls list with publicly accessible image URLs, set your maxMatchesPerImage, and deploy for reliable weekly Google Lens image copyright tracking.