How to Find Live Webcams Using Google

You can perform a webcam search from Google to locate open/unsecured IP cameras. However, because Google kicks back billions of search results for most queries, you need to know exactly what to search for to find live webcams.

A Google webcam search is helpful if you're curious about life in other places. There's a wide variety of fascinating cameras sending live feeds covering all sorts of things, from traffic and weather to North Pole researchers, parking lots, airports, African watering holes, zoos, campuses, beaches, and everything in between.

If you're not sure what kind of open webcam feed to search for, take a look at these at-home webcams or these cams from around the world — no searching required.

If the webcam sites you find with Google don't open properly, try using a computer. Most mobile devices don't support the same video streams that you can open from a computer.

Webcam Search Tips

Searching for just webcams might yield some results, but you're much better off exploring open webcams on Google using targeted search terms.

Try a General Search

Before trying advanced search tips, enter the basic words related to the webcam feed you want to find.

eagle cam

eagle webcam

Rockies webcam

fireworks cam

If those webcam searches aren't helpful, try throwing in the word live or surrounding the phrase in quotes:

"live bird camera"

"mountain webcam live"

"pacific beach" "weather cam"

"powered by webcamXP"

Search in URLs

Google lets you search within URLs with the inurl command. Most webcam pages use a similar structure in the URL, making this webcam search tip pretty helpful.

inurl:/view.shtml france

inurl:view/index.shtml rome

inurl:/view/index2.shtml

inurl:view/view.shtml beach

inurl:appletvid.html

inurl:8081 "live view"

inurl:8080 "live view"

intitle:”live view” intitle:axis

inurl:CgiStart?page=Single

inurl:MultiCameraFrame?Mode=Motion

inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion

Search Web Page Titles

Another way to locate webcams on Google is to search within each page's title. This is possible with the intitle command.

intitle:"Network Camera NetworkCamera"

intitle:"live webcam" zoo

intitle:"Live View / – AXIS"

This is an extremely simple search that reveals a surprising number of results:

intitle:liveapplet

Combine Search Commands

You can really narrow down your webcam searches by combining multiple search operators into one query. However, the more commands you add, the fewer results you'll see, which could eliminate valid webcam feeds that don't match your search exactly.

How to Use Advanced Google Search Commands

inurl:view/view.shtml site:edu

inurl:view/view.shtml site:gov

site:gov inurl:"live camera"

site:gov intitle:"traffic cameras" texas

intitle:EvoCam inurl:webcam.html