Pinterest Profile Scraper — Bio, Links & Recent Pins

Give it a Pinterest username, get the whole account as a spreadsheet row. Bio, every outbound link, follower count, the date the account joined, board count, verification badges — and, if you want them, its ten most recent pins. Built for the people who need the website behind the account: outreach teams building creator lists, brands checking who is pinning them, agencies qualifying partners before the first email.

🆓 Free to start: no signup or card beyond your Apify account · press Save & Start with empty fields and it runs a small sample on a built-in account · Apify's Free plan includes $5 of monthly platform credit.

🎯 What it does

You give it usernames — or a keyword, and it finds the usernames itself. It reads Pinterest the way a logged-out visitor does and returns clean, deduplicated rows.

Mode	Input	What each row is
Mode 1: Get profiles by username	usernames or profile links	an account: bio, website links, followers, join date, avatar, boards, verification flags
Mode 2: Get a profile's recent pins	usernames or profile links	one of that account's ten most recent pins: link, image, title, publish date
Mode 3: Find profiles by keyword	keywords	an account found for that keyword — the same full row as Mode 1, including bio and website

The columns group into three themes: identity (handle, display name, bio, avatar, join date), reach (followers, board count, date of the last save, verification badges), and destination (every outbound link on the profile, plus the primary domain pulled out of them).

⚠️ Pick your mode first. Each mode reads only its own input field. Example: you select Mode 1 but type the username into the Mode 3 field. The actor runs Mode 1 — which never looks at Mode 3's field — finds nothing, and runs a small built-in sample instead of your lookup. All three mode sections stay visible whatever you pick; the Apify Console does not hide them, so fill in only the section whose label matches your mode.

📦 Output sample

One complete row from Mode 1, exactly as it lands in the dataset:

{
  "result_type": "profile",
  "keyword": null,
  "username": "nasa",
  "full_name": "NASA",
  "profile_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/nasa/",
  "bio": "Explore the universe and discover our home planet with the official NASA boards on Pinterest. Visit us at www.nasa.gov",
  "website_urls": ["http://www.nasa.gov/"],
  "website_domain": "nasa.gov",
  "avatar_url": "https://i.pinimg.com/280x280_RS/37/a1/75/37a175e6d2431425576f0b8f81389394.jpg",
  "followers": 556119,
  "created_at": "2012-03-05T16:37:07.000Z",
  "board_count": 82,
  "last_pin_save_at": "2026-07-06T14:10:45.000Z",
  "is_verified_merchant": false,
  "is_ads_only_profile": false,
  "domain_verified": true
}

And one complete row from Mode 2:

{
  "result_type": "pin",
  "profile_username": "marthastewart",
  "profile_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/marthastewart/",
  "position": 1,
  "pin_id": "32088216099525625",
  "pin_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/32088216099525625/",
  "title": "Pin on Cleaning and Home-keeping Tips",
  "image_url": "https://i.pinimg.com/736x/fd/10/6b/fd106b822e4c88c5387a9e265883c0f7.jpg",
  "published_at": "2026-07-28T02:00:46.000Z"
}

Missing values are null, never the string "N/A".

⚡ Quick start

1. Leave Mode on Mode 1: Get profiles by username.
2. Type one username per line into Pinterest usernames — nasa, @nasa and https://www.pinterest.com/nasa/ all work.
3. Set Max profiles to something small for the first run, e.g. 10.
4. Press Save & Start.

{
  "operationMode": "profiles",
  "profilesUsernames": ["nasa", "marthastewart"],
  "profilesMaxItems": 10
}

Pressing Save & Start with everything empty is safe: the actor runs a small built-in sample instead of failing, and says so in the log. Whichever mode you select, fill in that mode's field — the other two are ignored.

⭐ Choose your mode

🎯 Mode 1: Get profiles by username

The main one. You already know the accounts; this turns them into rows.

• Input: profilesUsernames — one per line. A bare handle, an @handle, or a full profile link.
• Cost control: profilesMaxItems — the run stops there. 0 means "no limit of your own"; the free plan still stops at 10 profiles.

🎯 Mode 2: Get a profile's recent pins

What an account has published lately, as rows. Useful for checking whether a creator is still active, and what they post about, before you approach them.

• Input: profilePinsUsernames — same formats as Mode 1.
• Cost control: profilePinsMaxItems — counted in profiles, not pins. Each profile returns up to 10 pins.
• Ceiling: Pinterest exposes the ten most recent pins of a public profile and no more. This is a recency snapshot, not a full archive — an account with 4,000 pins still returns 10.

🎯 Mode 3: Find profiles by keyword

Discovery. Pinterest returns roughly 50 accounts for a keyword; this mode then looks each one up, so the row carries the bio and the website links that a plain search never returns.

• Input: findProfilesKeywords — letters, digits and spaces only.
• Cost control: findProfilesMaxItems — counted across all keywords.
• Worth knowing: the follower and ads-only filters run before each account is looked up, so in this mode those two lower the bill as well as the output.

🧭 When to use it

• Creator outreach. Mode 3 on your niche with Only profiles with a website link turned on gives you a contactable shortlist with follower counts and last-save dates — enough to drop the dormant accounts before writing a single email.
• Competitor and partner monitoring. Mode 1 over a fixed list of handles, run weekly, shows follower movement and whether they are still posting.
• Attribution checks. website_domain tells you which site an account actually promotes, which is often not the one written in the bio text.
• Content audits. Mode 2 across your own accounts shows what each one published most recently, side by side.

🛠 Input

The input is grouped into sections. Only the section matching your selected mode is read.

Field	Type	Mode	What it does
operationMode	select	all	Which of the three jobs to run.
profilesUsernames	list	1	Usernames, @handles or profile links, one per line.
profilesMaxItems	number	1	Stop after this many profiles. 0 = no limit of your own.
profilePinsUsernames	list	2	Same formats as Mode 1.
profilePinsMaxItems	number	2	Stop after this many profiles. Each returns up to 10 pins.
findProfilesKeywords	list	3	Keywords, one per line. Letters, digits and spaces only.
findProfilesMaxItems	number	3	Stop after this many profiles across all keywords.
minFollowers	number	1, 2, 3	Drop accounts below this follower count.
onlyProfilesWithWebsite	checkbox	1, 2, 3	Keep only accounts that publish at least one outbound link.
websiteDomainContains	text	1, 2, 3	Comma-separated. Keeps only accounts whose website matches one of them.
excludeAdsOnlyProfiles	checkbox	1, 2, 3	Drop accounts Pinterest marks as advertising-only.

A note on usernames

A Pinterest handle is the part of the profile link between pinterest.com/ and the next slash. It can contain dots, underscores and hyphens, and it is often not the display name: A Beautiful Mess is abeautifulmess_. Open the profile in a browser and copy the handle from the address bar — a guessed handle either finds nobody or, worse, finds somebody else.

A pin link or a board link will not work in these fields. Both point at content rather than at an account, and the actor says so instead of guessing.

💰 How much will scraping Pinterest profiles cost?

You are charged once per profile, not per row.

• Mode 1: one profile = one charge = one row.
• Mode 2: one profile = one charge = up to ten pin rows.
• Mode 3: one profile found and looked up = one charge = one row.

Never charged: a username that does not resolve to a public profile, a lookup that failed on our side, and — in Mode 3 — every candidate dropped by the follower or ads-only filter before it was looked up.

The website filters need the profile in hand, so they narrow the output rather than the bill. The follower and ads-only filters in Mode 3 do both.

🆓 Free vs paid plan

	Free plan	Paid plan
Profiles per run	10 (cap)	Unlimited — your Max profiles number is the only limit
Modes available	all three	all three
Fields per row	all of them	all of them
Filters	all of them	all of them

Nothing is held back on the free plan except volume. When the cap binds, the run says so in USER_MESSAGE and records it in FREE_LIMITS_APPLIED.

🧪 Filter recipes

A contactable creator shortlist

{
  "operationMode": "findProfiles",
  "findProfilesKeywords": ["sustainable fashion"],
  "findProfilesMaxItems": 50,
  "minFollowers": 5000,
  "onlyProfilesWithWebsite": true
}

minFollowers runs before each lookup here, so the accounts under 5,000 followers cost nothing at all.

Everyone in a niche who sells on a given platform

{
  "operationMode": "findProfiles",
  "findProfilesKeywords": ["handmade jewelry"],
  "websiteDomainContains": "etsy,shopify"
}

Are these accounts still alive?

{
  "operationMode": "profiles",
  "profilesUsernames": ["hgtv", "marthastewart", "sephora"]
}

Sort the output by last_pin_save_at. Anything older than a few months is a dormant account, whatever its follower count says.

📡 Live status & storage records

While a run is going, open the Live Status link on the run page for a self-refreshing view: profiles looked up, rows saved, rows dropped by filters, elapsed time and running cost.

Record	When it appears	What is in it
RUN_SUMMARY	every run	mode, targets, profiles charged, rows saved, rows filtered, not-found count, upstream request count, cost, wall-clock seconds
USER_MESSAGE	when there is something to say	why a run returned nothing, which filter is binding, what to change next
FREE_LIMITS_APPLIED	free plan, cap reached	which cap applied and what it changed
SKIPPED_ITEMS	when something was skipped	entries that are not profile links, usernames with no public profile, duplicates, failed lookups — each with a reason

🤖 Programmatic / API use

Start a run and get the dataset back in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/afanasenko~pinterest-profile-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "operationMode": "findProfiles",
        "findProfilesKeywords": ["sustainable fashion"],
        "findProfilesMaxItems": 50,
        "onlyProfilesWithWebsite": true
      }'

Read the run summary afterwards:

$curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/$RUN_ID/key-value-store/records/RUN_SUMMARY?token=$APIFY_TOKEN"

Every output field is declared in the dataset schema, so agent frameworks can read the column list without a sample run.

💡 Tips & Best Practices

Getting the most out of a run

Copy handles from the address bar rather than typing them. Pinterest display names and handles diverge constantly, and a handle that does not exist returns nothing — correctly, and at no charge, but also with no data.

In Mode 3, one broad keyword beats three narrow ones. Pinterest matches account names and bios here, so home decor returns about 50 accounts where mid century sage green home decor returns almost none.

Cost control

Set Max profiles on the first run of any new list or keyword. Mode 3 will happily look up everything Pinterest offers.

In Mode 3, put your follower floor in minFollowers rather than filtering the spreadsheet afterwards — in that mode the filter runs before the lookup, so the accounts it drops are never paid for.

Mode 2 is the cheapest way to see recent activity: ten pins arrive for the price of one profile.

❓ FAQ

Can I get an account's followers, or the accounts it follows? No. Pinterest does not expose follower or following lists to logged-out visitors, so no actor can return them honestly. The follower count is in every profile row.

Can I get all of an account's pins, or its boards? Mode 2 returns the ten most recent pins, which is what Pinterest publishes for a public profile — there is no page two. Board contents are not available either; board_count tells you how many boards exist, not what is in them.

Why is board_count empty on some rows? Those extra fields come from a second, confirming lookup that only runs when Pinterest can match the account under its own handle. The identity fields — bio, links, followers, join date — are always populated.

Does it work on private accounts? No, and it will not pretend otherwise: a private, deactivated or renamed account is reported as "no public profile" and costs nothing.

Can I schedule it? Yes. A weekly Mode 1 run over a fixed list of handles is the usual setup — follower movement and last_pin_save_at are the two columns worth watching over time. Use Apify's Schedules tab.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads Pinterest live. Nothing is cached between runs.

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🛟 Support & feedback

Open the Issues tab on this actor's Apify Store page. Bug reports that include the run ID get fixed fastest, and feature requests do get built.

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape Pinterest profiles?

This actor reads only what Pinterest shows a logged-out visitor: public profiles and their public pins. It does not log in, does not touch private accounts, and collects no email addresses or other private contact details — the only links it returns are the ones an account chose to publish on its own profile.

Public data collection is broadly lawful in the EU and the US, but you remain responsible for what you do with the output. Profile data about an identifiable person is personal data under GDPR: have a lawful basis before you store it, respect copyright in the images you find, and follow Pinterest's terms for any republication.