Tareef for Laravel

The official Laravel SDK for Tareef — register a person, verify a face, manage your library, in one line of code.

use Tareef\Laravel\Facades\Tareef;

$result = Tareef::verify($request->file('selfie'));

if ($result->matched) {
    return "Welcome back, {$result->name}.";
}

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 10, 11, 12, or 13
• A Tareef account (sign up free)

Install

composer require tareef/laravel

The package self-registers via Laravel's auto-discovery. Add your API key to .env:

TAREEF_API_KEY=frs_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Grab your key from the Tareef dashboard → API Keys → Create new key.

Optionally publish the config to tune timeouts / retries:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=tareef-config

Quickstart

Enroll a person

use Tareef\Laravel\Facades\Tareef;

$person = Tareef::register(
    name:   $request->input('name'),
    images: [$request->file('photo')],   // UploadedFile, file path, or SplFileInfo
    phone:  $request->input('phone'),    // optional
);

return response()->json([
    'uuid' => $person->uuid,
    'images_indexed' => $person->imageCount,
]);

Verify a face

$result = Tareef::verify($request->file('selfie'));

if ($result->matched) {
    return view('door.open', [
        'name'  => $result->name,
        'score' => $result->score,    // lower = closer match
    ]);
}

return view('door.unknown');

Add more reference photos

$person = Tareef::find($uuid);
$person->addImages([
    $request->file('photo_1'),
    $request->file('photo_2'),
]);

List your library

$people = Tareef::list(limit: 50);
// Illuminate\Support\Collection<Person>

foreach ($people as $p) {
    echo "{$p->name} — {$p->imageCount} photos\n";
}

Delete a person

Tareef::delete($uuid);
// or, if you already have the object:
$person->delete();

Health check

if (! Tareef::health()) {
    Log::warning('Tareef is unreachable.');
}

Error handling

Every failure path throws a typed exception subclassed from Tareef\Laravel\Exceptions\TareefException.

use Tareef\Laravel\Exceptions\{
    FaceAlreadyExistsException,
    NoFaceDetectedException,
    QuotaExceededException,
    AuthenticationException,
    ServiceUnavailableException,
    TareefException,
};

try {
    $person = Tareef::register(name: $name, images: [$file]);
} catch (FaceAlreadyExistsException $e) {
    // Same face is already enrolled — fetch the existing record.
    $existing = Tareef::find($e->existingUuid);
    return back()->with('warning', "Already enrolled as {$existing->name}.");
} catch (NoFaceDetectedException $e) {
    return back()->withErrors(['photo' => 'No face was detected. Try a clearer photo.']);
} catch (QuotaExceededException) {
    return redirect()->route('billing')->with('error', 'Plan quota exhausted.');
} catch (AuthenticationException) {
    Log::critical('TAREEF_API_KEY is missing or revoked.');
    abort(500);
} catch (ServiceUnavailableException) {
    return back()->with('error', 'Tareef is having issues. Try again in a minute.');
} catch (TareefException $e) {
    report($e);
    return back()->with('error', $e->getMessage());
}

Tareef::verify() is different: a no-match is not an exception — it returns a VerifyResult with matched=false. Only auth, quota, "no face in the image", and network errors throw.

API reference

Person

$person->uuid;          // string
$person->name;          // ?string
$person->phone;         // ?string
$person->imageCount;    // int
$person->images;        // string[]  — URLs/paths returned by the API
$person->createdAt;     // ?Carbon\Carbon

$person->addImages([$file]);   // → Person
$person->delete();             // → bool
$person->toArray();            // → array

VerifyResult

$result->matched;       // bool   — branch on this
$result->uuid;          // ?string (the matched person's UUID, if any)
$result->name;          // ?string
$result->score;         // ?float  (lower = closer; <0.35 = confident match)
$result->samples;       // ?int    (how many reference photos contributed)
$result->status;        // 'ok' | 'not_found'
$result->message;       // ?string

Configuration

config/tareef.php (publish to override):

Image inputs

Every method that takes images accepts any of:

• \Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile — straight from $request->file('photo')
• \SplFileInfo / \Illuminate\Http\File — for files you've already moved
• string — an absolute path on disk

The SDK streams them as multipart parts; nothing is loaded fully into PHP memory.

Testing your integration

Tareef uses Laravel's HTTP client under the hood, so you can mock it with the standard Http::fake():

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

Http::fake([
    '*/api/v1/verify' => Http::response([
        'success' => true, 'uuid' => 'fixture-uuid',
        'name' => 'Test Person', 'score' => 0.1, 'samples' => 1,
    ]),
]);

$result = Tareef::verify(UploadedFile::fake()->image('selfie.jpg'));

$this->assertTrue($result->matched);
$this->assertSame('Test Person', $result->name);

Versioning

Semver. The first stable release is 1.0.0. Any breaking change to the public API (Tareef::*, the resource DTOs, or the exception hierarchy) bumps the major version.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Links

• Tareef dashboard — https://tareef.g4t.io
• API reference — https://tareef.g4t.io/docs
• Status — https://tareef.g4t.io/status
• Support — info@g4t.online

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