Pinterest Scraper — Search Pins, Boards & Creators

Type a keyword, get Pinterest as a spreadsheet. Pins, video pins, boards, creators and Pinterest's own keyword suggestions — five searches in one actor, no login and no browser. Built for SEO, content and e-commerce teams who need the outbound link and destination domain behind every pin, not just a pretty image.

🆓 Free to start: no signup or card beyond your Apify account · press Save & Start with empty fields and it runs a 10-row sample on a built-in keyword · Apify's Free plan includes $5 of monthly platform credit, roughly 1,400 rows here.

🎯 What it does

You give it keywords. It searches Pinterest the way a logged-out visitor would, and returns clean, deduplicated rows.

Mode	Input	What each row is
Mode 1: Search pins by keyword	keywords	a pin: title, description, image, outbound link + destination domain, creator, board, topic tags
Mode 2: Search video pins by keyword	keywords	the same, plus a direct video URL, poster frame and duration
Mode 3: Search boards by keyword	keywords	a board: name, description, pin count, cover image, owner and owner's follower count
Mode 4: Search creators by keyword	keywords	an account: followers, pin and board counts, date of its last save
Mode 5: Get keyword suggestions	seed keywords	one phrase Pinterest itself suggests for your seed, in rank order

Fields group into four themes: content (title, description, alt text, image sizes, dominant colour), destination (outbound link, domain, what the linked page is), people (creator handle, name, followers, board), and discovery (Pinterest's own topic tags and AI interest labels).

⚠️ Pick your mode first. Each mode reads only its own input fields. Example: you select Mode 1 but type your keyword into the Mode 3 field. The actor runs Mode 1 — which never looks at Mode 3's field — finds no keyword, and falls back to a 10-row demo instead of your search. All five 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": "pin",
  "keyword": "home office ideas",
  "pin_id": "68749748250",
  "pin_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/68749748250/",
  "title": "Office with Green and oak cabinetry",
  "description": "Green office cabinetry with pull out printer shelf, wall to wall oak desktop and open display shelving.",
  "alt_text": "a home office with green cabinets and white chairs",
  "created_at": "2026-01-28T16:28:51.000Z",
  "image_url": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/93/20/0f9320dbe478ae36ec533b899ed2b6e1.jpg",
  "image_width": 1333,
  "image_height": 2000,
  "thumbnail_url": "https://i.pinimg.com/236x/0f/93/20/0f9320dbe478ae36ec533b899ed2b6e1.jpg",
  "dominant_color": "#8c8379",
  "outbound_link": "http://arinteriors.ca/",
  "outbound_domain": "arinteriors.ca",
  "reactions": 171,
  "is_promoted": false,
  "is_video": false,
  "video_url": null,
  "video_thumbnail_url": null,
  "video_duration_seconds": null,
  "topic_tags": [
    "Small Office Space Storage",
    "Office Room Storage Ideas",
    "Study Cabinets Built Ins",
    "Small In Home Office Ideas",
    "Home Office And Storage Room"
  ],
  "ai_topics": [],
  "source_type": null,
  "source_site": "AR Interiors Inc",
  "source_title": null,
  "creator_username": "stx2102",
  "creator_full_name": "Meg Sultzbach Guido",
  "creator_profile_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/stx2102/",
  "creator_avatar_url": "https://i.pinimg.com/140x140_RS/21/24/da/2124dae9ad41685abb249261a4a33f1a.jpg",
  "creator_followers": 605,
  "creator_is_verified_merchant": false,
  "board_name": "Office Space",
  "board_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/stx2102/office-space/",
  "board_pin_count": 120
}

Anything Pinterest did not provide comes back as null — never the string "N/A" — so numeric columns stay numeric in Sheets, Airtable and CSV. Every row carries a result_type, and a row holds only the fields belonging to its own type. The full per-field schema lives in .actor/dataset_schema.json, which is also what AI agents read through Apify's MCP layer.

⚡ Quick start

1. Leave operation mode on Mode 1: Search pins by keyword.
2. Type one keyword per line into Keywords — letters, digits and spaces only.
3. Set Max pins to something small for the first run, e.g. 50.
4. Press Save & Start.

{
  "operationMode": "searchPins",
  "searchPinsKeywords": ["home office ideas"],
  "searchPinsMaxItems": 50
}

Pressing Save & Start with everything empty is safe: the actor runs a built-in 10-row sample instead of failing, and says so in the log. Whichever mode you select, fill in that mode's keyword field — the other four are ignored.

⭐ Choose your mode

🎯 Mode 1: Search pins by keyword

The main one. Pinterest's relevance ranking, paginated until your Max pins number is reached or Pinterest stops offering new pins.

• Input: searchPinsKeywords — one keyword per line.
• Cost control: searchPinsMaxItems — the run stops there. 0 means "no limit of your own"; the free plan still stops at 50 rows.

🎯 Mode 2: Search video pins by keyword

Mode 1's row shape narrowed to pins that carry video, plus video_url, video_thumbnail_url and video_duration_seconds.

• Input: searchVideoPinsKeywords.
• Cost control: searchVideoPinsMaxItems.

🎯 Mode 3: Search boards by keyword

Finds where a topic is actually curated. A board with 1,500 pins whose owner has 200k followers is a distribution channel; a board with 11 pins is not.

• Input: searchBoardsKeywords.
• Cost control: searchBoardsMaxItems.

🎯 Mode 4: Search creators by keyword

Accounts that publish about your topic, with follower count, pin and board counts, and the date of their last save — enough to separate an active account from a dormant one before you reach out.

• Input: searchCreatorsKeywords.
• Cost control: searchCreatorsMaxItems.
• Need their bio and website too? Pinterest's search does not carry either. Pinterest Profile Scraper looks each account up and returns them.

🎯 Mode 5: Get keyword suggestions

Pinterest's own autocompletions for a seed phrase, in the order Pinterest ranks them. About a dozen per seed, and they are what Pinterest users actually type.

• Input: keywordSuggestionsKeywords — seeds, one per line.
• Cost control: keywordSuggestionsMaxItems.

🧭 When to use it

• Content planning. Run Mode 5 on a seed, then Mode 1 on the strongest suggestions to see what already ranks for each.
• E-commerce research. Mode 1 with Destination domain contains set to a competitor's domain shows every pin driving traffic to them.
• Creator discovery. Mode 4, then sort your sheet by followers and last-save date.
• Ad and creative research. Mode 1 keeps Pinterest's promoted pins and flags them in is_promoted, so you can see what is being paid for in your category — or drop them with Exclude promoted pins.
• Design and moodboard sourcing. Mode 3 finds the boards worth mining, Mode 1 fills in the pins.

🎯 Example tasks

Ready-to-run examples — each opens a pre-configured task you can run in one click (no setup):

• Scrape Pinterest pins by keyword — Search Pinterest for any keyword and export every matching pin — title, description, image, outbound link, destination domain, creator and board.
• Find product pins on Pinterest by store — Keep only the Pinterest pins that link to a store you name — product image, title, destination URL and the creator behind each pin.
• Export Pinterest video pins by keyword — Search Pinterest for pins that carry video and export the direct video URL, poster frame and duration alongside the pin's title, link and creator.
• Find Pinterest boards by keyword — Find the boards curating any topic — board name, description, pin count, cover image and the owner's follower count, so you can see where a topic lives.
• Find Pinterest creators by niche — Find the accounts publishing about your niche — follower, pin and board counts plus the date each one last saved, so dormant accounts are obvious.
• Get Pinterest keyword suggestions — Export the phrases Pinterest itself suggests for a seed keyword, in its own ranking — the fastest way to plan pin titles, board names and descriptions.

🛠 Input

Field	Type	Applies to	What it does
operationMode	select	all	Which of the five searches to run.
searchPinsKeywords	string list	Mode 1	Keywords to search for pins.
searchVideoPinsKeywords	string list	Mode 2	Keywords to search for video pins.
searchBoardsKeywords	string list	Mode 3	Keywords to search for boards.
searchCreatorsKeywords	string list	Mode 4	Keywords to search for creators.
keywordSuggestionsKeywords	string list	Mode 5	Seed phrases to expand.
<mode>MaxItems	integer	per mode	Row ceiling for that mode. 0 = no ceiling of your own.
minReactions	integer	Modes 1, 2	Drop pins below this reaction count.
onlyPinsWithLink	boolean	Modes 1, 2	Keep only pins that link somewhere.
excludePromotedPins	boolean	Modes 1, 2	Drop pins Pinterest marks as ads.
linkDomainContains	string	Modes 1, 2	Comma-separated domain fragments to keep.
minCreatorFollowers	integer	Modes 1–4	Minimum followers for the creator or board owner.
minBoardPins	integer	Mode 3	Minimum pins on the board.

Keywords accept letters, digits and spaces only — that is Pinterest's own constraint on this search surface. Accented letters are folded automatically (café décor searches as cafe decor), punctuation, hashtags and emoji are stripped, and a keyword left with nothing searchable is skipped and reported in SKIPPED_ITEMS rather than silently ignored.

💰 How much will scraping Pinterest cost?

One paid event: Result — one row delivered to the dataset.

Your Apify plan	Price per row	1,000 rows
Free	$0.0035	$3.50
Bronze	$0.0030	$3.00
Silver	$0.0025	$2.50
Gold, Platinum, Diamond	$0.0020	$2.00

Filtered and duplicate rows cost nothing. You are charged when a row lands in the dataset, not when Pinterest hands it over. A run whose filters reject everything costs $0.00, and Pinterest's habit of repeating the same pin across pages costs you nothing either — the actor drops repeats before charging.

Worked examples on the Free plan:

• 50 pins for one keyword — $0.175
• 500 pins across 10 keywords — $1.75
• 5,000 pins for a full content audit — $17.50
• a dozen keyword suggestions from Mode 5 — about $0.04

🆓 Free vs paid plan

	Free plan	Paid plan
Rows per run	50	your maxItems, unlimited by default
All five modes	✓	✓
All filters	✓	✓
Pagination past the first page	✓	✓
Scheduling	✓	✓

The free ceiling is a per-run row cap and nothing else — no mode, filter or field is held back. When a run hits it, the actor says so in USER_MESSAGE and on the live status page.

🧪 Filter recipes

Find who is driving Pinterest traffic to a competitor

{
  "operationMode": "searchPins",
  "searchPinsKeywords": ["standing desk"],
  "linkDomainContains": "fully.com,uplift",
  "onlyPinsWithLink": true,
  "searchPinsMaxItems": 200
}

Only pins that got engagement, no ads

{
  "operationMode": "searchPins",
  "searchPinsKeywords": ["fall wedding centerpieces"],
  "minReactions": 25,
  "excludePromotedPins": true,
  "searchPinsMaxItems": 300
}

Boards big enough to be worth pitching

{
  "operationMode": "searchBoards",
  "searchBoardsKeywords": ["scandinavian interior"],
  "minBoardPins": 200,
  "minCreatorFollowers": 10000
}

A keyword map for next quarter's content

{
  "operationMode": "keywordSuggestions",
  "keywordSuggestionsKeywords": ["home office", "small apartment", "desk setup"]
}

📡 Live status & storage records

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

Record	When it appears	What is in it
RUN_SUMMARY	every run	mode, keywords, rows saved, rows filtered, duplicates dropped, 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	unsearchable keywords, duplicate keywords, duplicate results, failed searches — 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-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "operationMode": "searchPins",
        "searchPinsKeywords": ["home office ideas"],
        "searchPinsMaxItems": 100,
        "onlyPinsWithLink": 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 maximum results

Broad keywords beat precise ones on Pinterest. home office ideas returns hundreds of pins; minimalist sage green home office desk setup often returns a handful. Start broad, then narrow with filters — filters cost nothing.

Run Mode 5 first when you are exploring a topic. A dozen suggestions for one seed costs about four cents and tells you which phrasings Pinterest actually serves.

Cost optimization

Set maxItems on the first run of any new keyword. Pinterest will happily keep paginating, and an unbounded run on a broad keyword is the only way to spend more than you meant to.

Filters are free to apply and reduce the bill, so push the narrowing into the actor rather than deleting rows afterwards in a spreadsheet.

Performance

A 50-row run takes a few seconds; several hundred rows take a minute or two, because deeper pages come back more slowly. 1 GB of memory is plenty — this actor does no browser work.

Data quality

reactions is the only engagement number Pinterest exposes on public search surfaces. Save and repin counts are not available to any logged-out client, so no tool can read them here — treat any product claiming otherwise with suspicion.

created_at is the pin's publication date, which is often much older than the date it started circulating again.

❓ FAQ

How do I scrape Pinterest search results without an API key? You do not need one. Pick Mode 1, type your keyword, press Save & Start. Authentication, pagination and rate limits are handled inside the actor.

Is there a free way to try it? Yes. Press Save & Start with the form empty and the actor runs a capped 10-row sample on a built-in keyword. Apify's Free plan also includes $5 of monthly platform credit, roughly 1,400 rows here.

Can I use the official Pinterest API instead? For your own account, yes — Pinterest's official API is built for advertisers and for managing pins you own. It will not return other people's search results, which is what this actor is for.

Why did my run return zero rows? Three usual causes, and USER_MESSAGE in the run's Storage tab names which one applied: the keyword was too specific, the keyword contained characters Pinterest's search rejects, or your filters dropped everything. Zero-row runs cost nothing.

Does it return save or repin counts? No, and nothing else does either — Pinterest does not expose those numbers to logged-out clients. You get reactions, which is the engagement signal that is available.

I selected one mode but filled another mode's field. What happens? The actor runs the mode you selected, finds its field empty, and falls back to the 10-row demo. All five sections stay visible in the Console, so check that the section you typed into carries the same mode number you picked.

Can I search in languages other than English? Pinterest's search surface here accepts letters, digits and spaces. Accents are folded automatically, so French, German, Spanish and Portuguese keywords work. Scripts outside the Latin alphabet are not supported, and any keyword that uses them is reported in SKIPPED_ITEMS.

Are duplicate pins charged twice? No. Pinterest repeats pins across pages; the actor drops repeats run-wide before charging and counts them in RUN_SUMMARY.

Can I schedule it? Yes — the three dots ⋯ on the actor page → Schedule → pick a cadence → Activate. A weekly Mode 3 or Mode 4 run is the usual setup: it shows which boards and accounts are growing in your topic between runs.

How do I get only pins that link to a specific site? Set linkDomainContains to a fragment of that domain and switch on onlyPinsWithLink. See the first filter recipe above.

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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?

This actor reads only what Pinterest shows a logged-out visitor: public pins, public boards and public profiles. It does not log in, does not touch private boards or private accounts, and collects no personal contact details.

Public data collection is broadly lawful in the EU and the US, but you remain responsible for what you do with the output — respect copyright in the images you find, follow Pinterest's terms for any republication, and handle any personal data in line with GDPR and local law.