Pinterest Scraper — Pins, Boards, Profiles & Engagement

What does Pinterest Scraper do?

Pinterest Scraper extracts structured data from pinterest.com — pins, video pins, boards, and profiles — in a single actor. Search by keyword or paste pin, board, and profile URLs, and get clean JSON with images at every resolution, outbound links, Pinterest's own AI topic tags, and product shopping data (price, currency, stock) where present. Boards and profiles come with full detail (pin counts, followers, SEO metadata, bio, website) enriched by default.

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Key features

• 📌 Pins, videos, boards & profiles — one actor covers every Pinterest entity; pick type = pins, videos, boards, or profiles for a rich, purpose-built record.
• 🔍 Keyword search or paste URLs — search any term, or paste pin, board, and profile URLs to scrape them directly. Board and profile URLs also pull the pins beneath them.
• 🖼️ Every image resolution — each pin carries all image variants (170/236/474/736/original) plus dominant color and alt text.
• 🎥 Video pins — video pins include the direct video URL, duration, and thumbnail alongside the still image.
• 🏷️ Topic tags + free enrichment — pins carry Pinterest's own machine-generated topic labels; opt in for keyword-based sentiment and content-category on any record, free.
• 🛍️ Shopping data — product pins expose product name, price, currency, and stock status parsed from the pin's rich metadata.
• 📇 Board & profile detail — on by default: board pin/follower/section counts, category, SEO metadata; profile bio, website, follower counts, and verified-merchant flag.
• ♻️ Incremental mode — recurring runs emit and charge only for new or changed records. First run builds the baseline; later runs emit only NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED (UNCHANGED + EXPIRED opt-in). Saves 80–95% on daily monitoring.
• 🔔 Notifications — Telegram, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp Cloud API, and generic webhook out of the box. Pair with incremental for daily new-pin alerts without pipeline glue.
• 📦 Compact & lean output — compact mode returns only core display fields; descriptionMaxLength, descriptionFormat, and empty-field stripping keep payloads small for AI agents and MCP tools.
• 🔌 MCP connectors — export results into Notion via Apify's MCP connectors with deterministic field-mapping, no glue code. Opt-in via the App connector field.

What data can you extract from pinterest.com?

Every record is a typed envelope with common fields (type, id, url, title, description, imageUrl) plus exactly one detail block matching its type:

• Pins (pin): all image resolutions, dominant color, alt text, outbound link and destination domain, AI topic tags, video URL/duration/thumbnail for video pins, shopping fields (product name, price, currency, stock), and the pinner + board reference.
• Boards (board): pin/follower/section/collaborator counts, collaborative flag, category, cover image, SEO title & description, and owner — enriched by default via includeDetails.
• Profiles (profile): username, full name, bio, follower/following counts, pin/board/video counts, website, verified-merchant flag, and avatar — enriched by default.

In standard mode all fields for the record's type are always present — unavailable values are null, never omitted. Compact mode returns only the core display fields.

Input

The main inputs are a search keyword and a result limit. Additional filters and options are available in the input schema.

Key parameters:

• query — What to search for on Pinterest (e.g. "home office ideas"). Paste a JSON array to run several searches at once. Required if no Start URLs given.
• type — What kind of results to return for your search: pins, video pins, boards, or profiles. (default: "pins")
• startUrls — Paste Pinterest pin, board, or profile URLs to scrape directly instead of searching. A board or profile URL also returns its pins; when set, they replace the search query. (default: [])
• maxResults — Maximum number of records to return (0 = unlimited). (default: 100)
• includeDetails — For boards and profiles, fetch full detail (SEO, category, bio, website, follower counts) instead of the search summary. Pins always include it. (default: true)
• includeEngagement — Add engagement metrics per pin — saves, repins, shares, comments, reactions — plus a fuller description. Costs an extra detail fetch per pin, so runs take longer. (default: false)
• includeComments — Add a comments array per pin — text, author, like/helpful counts, reply count. Pages through each pin's comments, adding time per pin. (default: false)
• incrementalMode — Compare against the previous run and label each record NEW / UPDATED / UNCHANGED. State auto-derives from your search inputs. (default: false)
• ...and 26 more parameters

Input examples

Basic search — Keyword-driven search with a result cap.

→ Full payload per result — all standard fields populated where the source provides them.

{
  "type": "pins",
  "query": "home office ideas",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Incremental tracking — Only emit listings that changed since the previous run with this stateKey.

→ First run builds the baseline state. Subsequent runs emit only records that are new or whose tracked content changed. Set emitUnchanged: true to include unchanged records as well.

{
  "query": "home office ideas",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "stateKey": "home-office-ideas-tracker"
}

Compact output for AI agents — Return only core fields for AI-agent and MCP workflows.

→ Small payload with the most important fields — ideal for piping into LLMs without token overhead.

{
  "query": "home office ideas",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "compact": true
}

Output

Each run produces a dataset of structured listing records. Results can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab in Apify Console.

Example listing record

{
  "type": "pin",
  "id": "961307482979651647",
  "portalUrl": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/961307482979651647/",
  "title": "Minimalist Home Office Ideas for a Calm & Productive Workspace",
  "description": "Design a beautiful minimalist home office with smart desk organisation, built-in shelving, neutral décor and Scandinavian workspace inspiration. Discover modern home office ideas that help you stay or...",
  "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/91/c2/9c/91c29ccecf1422c72ac5db08157775a9.png",
  "pin": {
    "createdAt": "2026-06-28T14:30:03.000Z",
    "dominantColor": "#6c5235",
    "link": "https://thesmartlifeeditshop.etsy.com/listing/4533068101",
    "destinationDomain": "thesmartlifeeditshop.etsy.com",
    "mediaType": "image",
    "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/91/c2/9c/91c29ccecf1422c72ac5db08157775a9.png",
    "images": {
      "60x60": {
        "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/60x60/91/c2/9c/91c29ccecf1422c72ac5db08157775a9.jpg",
        "width": 60,
        "height": 60
      },
      "136x136": {
        "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/136x136/91/c2/9c/91c29ccecf1422c72ac5db08157775a9.jpg",
        "width": 136,
        "height": 136
      },
      "170x": {
        "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/236x/91/c2/9c/91c29ccecf1422c72ac5db08157775a9.jpg",
        "width": 236,
        "height": 354
      },
      "236x": {
        "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/236x/91/c2/9c/91c29ccecf1422c72ac5db08157775a9.jpg",
        "width": 236,
        "height": 354
      },
      "474x": {
        "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/474x/91/c2/9c/91c29ccecf1422c72ac5db08157775a9.jpg",
        "width": 474,
        "height": 711
      },
      "564x": {
        "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/564x/91/c2/9c/91c29ccecf1422c72ac5db08157775a9.jpg",
        "width": 564,
        "height": 846
      },
      "736x": {
        "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/736x/91/c2/9c/91c29ccecf1422c72ac5db08157775a9.jpg",
        "width": 736,
        "height": 1104
      },
      "600x315": {
        "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/600x315/91/c2/9c/91c29ccecf1422c72ac5db08157775a9.jpg",
        "width": 600,
        "height": 315
      },
      "orig": {
        "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/91/c2/9c/91c29ccecf1422c72ac5db08157775a9.png",
        "width": 1024,
        "height": 1536
      }
    },
    "isPromoted": false,
    "productName": "Minimalist Smart Goal Planner | Goal Setting, Tracker, Life Journal (Digital Download)",
    "priceText": "$5.22",
    "priceValue": 5.22,
    "priceCurrency": "USD",
    "inStock": true,
    "pinner": {
      "id": "961307620369820714",
      "username": "SmartLifeEdit",
      "fullName": "Smart Life Edit",
      "followerCount": 91,
      "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/75x75_RS/ca/e0/13/cae013d4aafdd0b572b3a7bb3824118b.jpg",
      "isVerifiedMerchant": false
    },
    "board": {
      "id": "961307551651684583",
      "name": "Home Office Ideas",
      "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/SmartLifeEdit/home-office-ideas/"
    }
  },
  "searchQuery": "home office ideas",
  "searchType": "pins",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-10T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": "Pinterest",
  "listingId": "050848561283e06cc2ac80dd530c1b800bbeca729fb9afc5ba0c07857d50392c"
}

Incremental fields

When incremental mode is on, each record also carries a changeType — one of NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, EXPIRED, or REAPPEARED — and a contentHash used for change detection. By default only NEW, UPDATED, and REAPPEARED records are emitted; set emitUnchanged: true or emitExpired: true to include the rest. Set skipReposts: true to drop records whose content matches an item that disappeared in a prior run.

How to scrape pinterest.com

1. Go to Pinterest Scraper in Apify Console.
2. Enter a search keyword.
3. Set maxResults to control how many results you need.
4. Enable includeDetails if you need full descriptions.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Use cases

• Build visual and product datasets from Pinterest for trend research, market analysis, and content discovery.
• Collect product pins with price and shopping metadata for e-commerce and competitive pricing intelligence.
• Track new and changed pins, boards, or profiles on scheduled incremental runs without re-processing the full result set every time.
• Feed structured pins, AI topic tags, and imagery into AI agents, MCP tools, and recommendation pipelines using compact mode.
• Export clean, structured Pinterest data to dashboards, spreadsheets, or data warehouses.

How much does it cost to scrape pinterest.com?

Pinterest Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay a small fee when the run starts and then for each result that is actually produced.

• Run start: $0.005 per run
• Per result: $0.00135 per listing record

Example costs:

• 10 results: $0.019
• 25 results: $0.039
• 100 results: $0.14
• 200 results: $0.28
• 500 results: $0.68

Example: recurring monitoring savings

These examples compare full re-scrapes with incremental runs at different churn rates. Churn is the share of listings that are new or whose tracked content changed since the previous run. Actual churn depends on your query breadth, source activity, and polling frequency — the scenarios below are examples, not predictions.

Example setup: 250 results per run, daily polling (30 runs/month). Event-pricing examples scale linearly with result count.

Churn rate	Full re-scrape run cost	Incremental run cost	Savings vs full re-scrape	Monthly cost after baseline
5% — stable niche query	$0.34	$0.02	$0.32 (94%)	$0.66
15% — moderate broad query	$0.34	$0.06	$0.29 (84%)	$1.67
30% — high-volume aggregator	$0.34	$0.11	$0.24 (69%)	$3.19

Full re-scrape monthly cost at daily polling: $10.28. First month with incremental costs $0.98 / $1.96 / $3.42 for the 5% / 15% / 30% scenarios because the first run builds baseline state at full cost before incremental savings apply.

Platform usage (compute and proxies) is billed separately by Apify based on actual consumption. Incremental runs consume less on result processing, though fixed per-run overhead stays the same.

FAQ

How many results can I get from pinterest.com?

The number of results depends on the search query and available listings on pinterest.com. Use the maxResults parameter to control how many results are returned per run.

Does Pinterest Scraper support recurring monitoring?

Yes. Enable incremental mode to only receive new or changed listings on subsequent runs. This is ideal for scheduled monitoring where you want to track changes over time without re-processing the full dataset.

Can I integrate Pinterest Scraper with other apps?

Yes. Pinterest Scraper works with Apify's integrations to connect with tools like Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Slack, and more. You can also use webhooks to trigger actions when a run completes.

Can I use Pinterest Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes. You can start runs, manage inputs, and retrieve results programmatically through the Apify API. Client libraries are available for JavaScript, Python, and other languages.

Can I use Pinterest Scraper through an MCP Server?

Yes. Apify provides an MCP Server that lets AI assistants and agents call this actor directly. Use compact mode, descriptionMaxLength, a single descriptionFormat, and excludeEmptyFields to keep payloads manageable for LLM context windows.

Is it legal to scrape pinterest.com?

This actor extracts publicly available data from pinterest.com. Web scraping of public information is generally considered legal, but you should always review the target site's terms of service and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws and regulations, including GDPR where relevant.

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