Pinterest Search Scraper — Pins, Videos, Boards & People

Type the words you would type into Pinterest's own search box and get the results back as a clean, structured table. One run can cover many search terms at once and can return four different things for the same words: pins, video pins, boards, or people. Every row arrives ranked exactly as Pinterest ranked it, with the image, the caption, the outbound link, the destination site, the board it lives on and the creator behind it. Switch on full engagement metrics and each pin also carries its real save, repin, share and comment figures. Marketers, SEO teams, trend researchers and e-commerce brands use it to see what is actually working on Pinterest for any topic — no Pinterest account needed.

What you can do with it

• Research a niche end to end — pull the top few hundred pins for a topic and see which images, captions, destinations and creators dominate the results.
• Find the accounts and boards that own a topic — switch to the people or boards list and get follower counts, pin counts and profile links you can sort and shortlist.
• Build a Pinterest SEO keyword map — every pin and video search also returns Pinterest's own scored list of related search terms, so one run gives you both the results and the next ten terms worth targeting.
• Track a competitor's reach — turn on full engagement metrics and sort a topic by real saves and repins instead of guessing from the grid.
• Harvest video content ideas — the video list returns only pins that genuinely carry video, with playable links, dimensions and duration.
• Feed a content or ads pipeline — schedule it weekly per keyword and watch which destinations and creators move up and down the rankings.

What you get

One row per result. This is a real, abridged record from a pin search with full engagement metrics turned on:

{
  "type": "pin",
  "id": "106679084920429920",
  "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/106679084920429920/",
  "title": "Modern Home Office Ideas | Luxury Japandi Workspace Design Inspiration",
  "description": "Upgrade your work-from-home setup with this luxury Japandi-inspired home office featuring a custom walnut built-in workspace, floating oak desk, warm LED shelving…",
  "altText": "A luxurious modern home office featuring a custom walnut and greige built-in workstation with floating oak desk, warm LED-lit display shelves…",
  "createdAt": "2026-07-27T21:14:01.000Z",
  "domain": null,
  "link": null,
  "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/76/30/bc/7630bc2d0e49b47f25efa455986a2863.png",
  "imageWidth": 1024,
  "imageHeight": 1536,
  "isVideo": false,
  "saveCount": 99,
  "repinCount": 4,
  "commentCount": 0,
  "shareCount": 0,
  "reactionCount": 9,
  "boardName": "Office",
  "boardUrl": "https://www.pinterest.com/ngold90/office/",
  "pinnerUsername": "ngold90",
  "pinnerFollowerCount": 14,
  "creatorUsername": "vistavibe07",
  "creatorFollowerCount": 78,
  "isPromoted": false,
  "promotedBy": null,
  "isRepin": true,
  "searchQuery": "home office ideas",
  "searchScope": "pins",
  "position": 1,
  "hasFullDetails": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-04T14:03:23.660Z",
  "relatedKeywords": [
    {
      "term": "home office ideas for small spaces",
      "display": "Small spaces",
      "score": 8.394435212583222,
      "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=home%20office%20ideas%20for%20small%20spaces",
      "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/60x60/bb/0c/ed/bb0ceda2be7adb8a78fbbd7151567077.jpg"
    },
    {
      "term": "cozy home office ideas",
      "display": "Cozy",
      "score": 8.379071822164775,
      "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=cozy%20home%20office%20ideas",
      "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/60x60/9b/2c/ae/9b2caede7fc46650239facc7437cb69d.jpg"
    }
  ]
}

Board rows and people rows use the same table with the fields that suit them — board name, pin count, owner and visibility for boards; username, full name, follower count, pin count and board count for people.

Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
queries	List of text	required	The things to search Pinterest for. Plain words such as coffee recipes, or paste a Pinterest search page address and the term is read off it. Duplicates are merged; up to 100 terms per run.
scope	Dropdown	Pins	Which of Pinterest's four public result lists to collect: Pins, Video pins, Boards or People.
maxItemsPerQuery	Number (1–2000)	100	How many results to collect for each search term before moving on.
includePromoted	Switch	Off	Pinterest mixes paid placements into results — on some topics they are close to half the grid. Off removes them, so you get organic results only. On keeps them, flagged with isPromoted and with the advertiser behind them in promotedBy.
enrichEngagement	Switch	Off	Adds the real saveCount, repinCount, shareCount and commentCount to every pin row. Pinterest's search listing does not publish those figures, so each pin is looked up on its own — the run takes longer and this is billed as a second event. Pin and video searches only.
includeRelatedKeywords	Switch	On	Attaches Pinterest's own scored list of related search terms to the top-ranked row for each search term, in relatedKeywords, at no extra cost.
country	Dropdown	United States	Pinterest personalises results by market. Pick the one you care about; it stays the same for the whole run.

Output fields

Every row

Field	Type	Description
type	string	pin, board or user.
id	string	Pinterest's own identifier.
url	string	Direct link to the pin, board or profile.
title	string	The headline Pinterest shows. Often empty on pins — see altText.
imageUrl	string	Largest available image.
searchQuery	string	The term this row came from.
searchScope	string	Which of the four lists it came from.
position	number	Rank in Pinterest's own result order, starting at 1.
relatedKeywords	array | null	Scored related search terms, on the top-ranked row of each term.
scrapedAt	string	When the row was collected (ISO 8601).

Pin and video rows

Field	Type	Description
description	string	The pin's own caption.
altText	string	Image description — filled in automatically by Pinterest when a pin has no caption of its own.
createdAt	string	When the pin was published (ISO 8601).
link, trackedLink, utmLink	string	Where the pin sends people.
domain	string	Destination site, or null when the pin has no outbound link.
imageWidth, imageHeight, images	number, object	Image size, and every size Pinterest publishes.
isVideo, videoUrl, videoUrls, videoWidth, videoHeight, videoDurationMs, videoThumbnailUrl	mixed	Video details for video pins.
saveCount, repinCount, shareCount, commentCount, triedCount	number | null	Engagement. null unless full engagement metrics are switched on.
reactionCount, reactions	number, object	Emoji reactions — these are published on every pin row.
boardId, boardName, boardUrl, boardOwnerUsername	string	The board the pin sits on.
pinnerUsername, pinnerFullName, pinnerFollowerCount, pinnerImageUrl	mixed	Who saved this copy of the pin.
creatorUsername, creatorFullName, creatorFollowerCount, creatorDomain, creatorDomainVerified	mixed	The original creator or merchant behind it, which is often a different account.
isPromoted, isRepin	boolean	Whether the row is a paid placement, and whether it is a re-save.
promotedBy	string | null	The advertiser behind a paid placement, which is usually a different account from the one that pinned it. null on organic rows.
isProduct, shoppingFlags, price, priceCurrency, richPinType, publisher	mixed	Shopping and rich-pin details, where Pinterest publishes them.
category, dominantColor	string	Topic label and dominant colour.
hasFullDetails	boolean	true when the row carries full engagement metrics.

Board rows

name, description, seoDescription, pinCount, sectionCount, privacy, isCollaborative, createdAt, lastPinnedAt, imageUrl, coverImages, ownerUsername, ownerFullName.

People rows

username, fullName, followerCount, pinCount, boardCount, isVerifiedMerchant, domainVerified, lastPinSavedAt, imageUrl.

Pricing

You pay per result, not per minute.

What you pay for	Price
Result scraped — every row stored, whatever the search type	$1.20 per 1,000
Full engagement metrics — only for pins you asked to enrich	$4.00 per 1,000

Worked example. You search five keywords and take 200 pins each — 1,000 rows. Leave full engagement metrics off and the run costs $1.20. Turn it on and all 1,000 rows get their real save, repin, share and comment figures, so you pay $1.20 for the rows plus $4.00 for the engagement, $5.20 in total. Related search terms are included either way and never add anything to the bill.

Limits & what this actor cannot do

• Pinterest publishes a limited number of public results for any one search, so a very large target returns what Pinterest makes available rather than an unlimited history.
• Save, repin, share and comment counts are not part of Pinterest's search listing. Leave full engagement metrics off and those columns arrive empty; switch it on and they are filled in.
• All counts — saves, repins, comments, followers — are a snapshot at the moment of collection and keep changing afterwards.
• A search that matches nothing still comes back with loosely related pins rather than an empty list, so the number of rows is not a measure of how well your term matched.
• A board search publishes how many pins a board holds, but not how many followers it has. A people search publishes follower, pin and board counts, but no bio or website.
• Many pins are published with no caption of their own; those arrive with an automatically generated image description in altText instead.
• Results are personalised to the market the run browses from, so the same words from a different country can return a different set.
• Paid placements appear inside Pinterest's own results, and on some topics — video searches especially — they can be close to half of what Pinterest returns. They are removed by default and flagged when kept, but they cannot be counted as organic.
• Private profiles and secret boards are not publicly viewable and are reported as unavailable rather than returned empty.
• Speed depends on the size of the job and on Pinterest's own response times; no fixed throughput is promised.
• Pinterest's terms govern automated access. You are responsible for using the data lawfully and in line with the source site's terms, and for handling any personal data in line with applicable privacy law.

FAQ

Do I need a Pinterest account? No. It reads only what Pinterest publishes to the open web.

Does it need my login or password? No, never. There is nothing to connect and nothing to authorise.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Point it at your keywords and run it daily, weekly or monthly — the position and scrapedAt fields on every row make ranking comparisons between runs straightforward.

Is the data complete? It is complete for what Pinterest publishes openly. Pinterest caps how many public results it will serve for one search, so a very large target stops when Pinterest stops. Engagement figures are only present when you switch them on, and pins with no caption arrive with an automatic image description instead.

Why is title sometimes empty? Plenty of pins are published without a headline. When that happens altText still describes the image, and that is usually the more useful field for filtering and classification anyway.

Why does pinnerUsername differ from creatorUsername? Pinterest lets anyone re-save someone else's pin. pinnerUsername is the account whose copy appeared in the results; creatorUsername is the original creator or merchant behind it. Both are given so you can attribute correctly.