Verify a viral photo before you share it

A viral image traced to its earliest copies by reverse image search and X’s full archive, its old pages in the Internet Archive, and the weather on the claimed day and place.

Steps

At most, per call

Verifying a viral photo means finding where it first appeared and checking it against the claimed time and place. With Agentik, your AI runs a reverse image search with DataForSEO, finds the earliest posts in X’s full archive, checks archived pages in the Wayback Machine, and reads the weather at the claimed place and day with Nominatim and Open-Meteo.

Step 1: Find other copies
DataForSEO runs a reverse image search on Google to find other copies of the image.
- Google search by image SERPDataForSEO · 1 image$0.0018
- Google search by image SERPDataForSEO · the resultsFree
Step 2: Find the earliest posts
X’s full archive finds the earliest posts that used it.
- X full-archive searchX · 10 posts$0.15
Step 3: Check archived pages
The Wayback Machine checks archived copies of the oldest pages that show it.
- Wayback Machine snapshot lookupInternet Archive · 2 pagesFree
Step 4: Check the place and the weather
Nominatim finds the claimed place, and Open-Meteo the weather recorded there that day.
- Geocode an addressOpenStreetMap · 1 placeFree
- Historical weatherOpen-Meteo · 1 dayFree
Step 5: Write the verdict
Your AI writes the earliest copy found, whether the image predates the event, whether the weather matches, and a verdict.
Your agent does this part, with no tool call.

Cost of the example

At most $0.16one run

One image, one reverse image search, 10 earliest X posts, 2 archive lookups, one place and its weather on one day.

Give this to your agent

Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: verify a viral photo.

Help me verify a viral photo. First ask me for the image URL, the claim (what, where and when) and where I saw it.

Find where else the image appears with dataforseo/serp-google-search-by-image. Find the earliest posts with it on X with x/search-all. Check archived copies of the oldest pages with wayback/availability. Geocode the claimed place with nominatim/geocode and read the weather there on the claimed day with open-meteo/historical-weather.

Finish with the earliest copy found, whether the image predates the claimed event, whether the weather matches, and a verdict with the evidence.

Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged.

5 providers, one connection

What you get

A provenance verdict with evidence.

You provide

The image URL
The claim (what, where, when)
Where you saw it

Your agent returns

The earliest copy found
Whether the image predates the event
Whether the weather matches
A verdict with the evidence

VerificationExample layout

Check	Finding	Supports the claim
Earliest copy	Older news site	No
Earliest post on X	Years before the event	No
Weather that day	Dry and sunny	No

Placeholders. Your rows come from your run.

Each provider does one part

No single provider covers this job. Your agent calls each one for its part, from one connection.

Good to know

No match is not proof the image is new; it may never have been indexed.
Weather data has a resolution of a few kilometres and is about five days behind.