Pinterest Scraper - Pins, Boards, Search, Images & Video

Scrape Pinterest pins by keyword search, board, profile, single pin or related pins — image AND video pins. Get saves/repins, comments, dominant color, images, video URL, the outbound click link + domain, affiliate-network detection and Rich/Product-pin data (price, brand, availability). HTTP-only, no login, no API key. Optional AI enrichment for niche, style and commercial-intent scoring.

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What is the Pinterest Scraper?

The Pinterest Scraper is an Apify actor that extracts structured data from Pinterest at scale. Unlike thin single-URL tools, it does real discovery: give it a keyword, a board URL, or a username and it returns every matching pin with rich metadata. It handles both image pins and video pins (image pins are ~89% of Pinterest and the highest commercial value), talks to Pinterest's own web endpoints over pure HTTP with a real Chrome fingerprint, and never needs an account, cookie or the approval-gated official Pinterest API.

This is a full rewrite of the old video-only metadata tool: faster, cheaper, far richer, and it now covers the parts of Pinterest that actually drive revenue — shopping pins, affiliate click-outs and trend signals.

Features

• 5 modes — search (keyword), board (all pins of a board), profile (a user's pins + follower stats), pin (one or many pin URLs), related (pins related to a pin).
• Image + video pins — full media: multi-size image URLs, MP4 video URL + duration, dominant color.
• Engagement — save/repin count, comment count, reaction counts.
• Commerce — outbound link + domain, Rich/Product-pin price, brand, availability, and affiliate-network detection (Amazon Associates, LTK, Rakuten, CJ, Awin, ShareASale, Impact, ShopStyle).
• Creator + board context on every pin.
• AI enrichment (premium) — per-pin niche, sub_niche, style_tags, subjects, product_category, brand_guess and a 0-100 commercial-intent score.
• Trend rollup — a free summary record with top niches, styles, domains, colors and affiliate share.

Use cases

• E-commerce & product research — pull shoppable pins in a niche with price/brand and find which products get saved most.
• Affiliate & competitor intelligence — detect monetized pins and see which affiliate networks and domains dominate a keyword.
• Trend forecasting — Pinterest often leads TikTok by ~6 months in lifestyle; classify a keyword's pins into niches/aesthetics to spot rising trends early.
• Marketing & content research — analyze top-saved pins in home decor, fashion, food, DIY, beauty, wedding.
• Brand monitoring — daily refresh of your brand's pins and competitors' pins.
• AI/dataset building — pins + alt-text + images for recommendation and vision models.

Input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "inputs": ["cottagecore bedroom decor"],
  "scope": "pins",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "includeAiAnalysis": false
}

Other examples:

{ "mode": "board",   "inputs": ["https://www.pinterest.com/user/home-decor/"], "maxResults": 200 }
{ "mode": "profile", "inputs": ["magnolia"], "maxResults": 100 }
{ "mode": "pin",     "inputs": ["https://www.pinterest.com/pin/530158482138090704/"] }
{ "mode": "search",  "inputs": ["standing desk"], "scope": "products", "includeAiAnalysis": true }

Output

{
  "type": "pin",
  "pin_id": "530158482138090704",
  "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/530158482138090704/",
  "title": "Cozy cottagecore bedroom",
  "alt_text": "A bedroom with floral wallpaper, a wooden bed and warm string lights",
  "media_type": "image",
  "save_count": 12840,
  "comment_count": 37,
  "dominant_color": "#c9a37e",
  "image_url": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/....jpg",
  "link": "https://shop.example.com/bed?tag=abc-20",
  "domain": "shop.example.com",
  "is_affiliate": true,
  "affiliate_network": "amazon",
  "is_product": true,
  "products": [{ "name": "Oak bed frame", "brand": "Example", "price": "$249", "availability": "IN_STOCK" }],
  "creator": { "username": "cozyhomes", "followers": 84000, "verified": true },
  "ai": {
    "niche": "home_decor",
    "sub_niche": "bedroom",
    "style_tags": ["cottagecore", "cozy", "vintage"],
    "commercial_intent": 78
  }
}

Pricing

PAY_PER_EVENT. You pay per pin returned; the AI layer is a separate opt-in event:

Event	Price
pin-scraped (every pin, image or video)	$0.002 ($2 / 1,000 pins)
pin-analyzed (only if includeAiAnalysis, paying plans)	$0.01

Failed fetches are not charged. HTTP-only means ~99% margin — no residential proxy needed for normal use.

FAQ

Do I need the official Pinterest API or a login? No. The official API needs Business-account approval and limits bulk access. This scraper reads public pins/boards/profiles/search with no auth, no quota, no cookie.

Does it scrape image pins or only video? Both. Image pins are the majority of Pinterest and where product/affiliate value lives — they are fully supported (the old version was video-only).

Can it discover pins, or do I need URLs? It discovers — search by keyword, scrape a whole board or a user's pins, or expand from one pin via related pins. Single-pin URLs still work via mode: "pin".

How does affiliate detection work? Every pin's outbound link is checked against known affiliate networks (Amazon Associates, LTK, Rakuten, CJ, Awin, ShareASale, Impact, ShopStyle) and flagged — no AI needed.

What powers the AI enrichment? A cheap LLM reads each pin's text and Pinterest's own machine-vision alt_text, so you get vision-grade niche/style/product tags without paying for a vision model. It runs only when you enable it, on paying plans.

Blocked or throttled? Datacenter works for normal use. For very heavy sweeps, add a proxyConfig with the RESIDENTIAL group.

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License: MIT · Author: dltik