Pinterest Scraper — Pins, Images & Creators (No API Key)

Search Pinterest by keyword and get one clean row per pin: title, description, alt text, full-resolution image URL, outbound link, source domain, creator username / name / follower count, board name and URL, created date, and the pin's dominant colour.

No API key, no login. Only public pin data is collected.

What you can do with it

• 🎨 Trend & aesthetic research — pull a niche and see what's actually being pinned.
• 🖼️ Image sourcing — collect original-resolution image URLs plus dominant colour.
• 🔗 Traffic-source analysis — see which domains a niche links out to.
• 👤 Creator discovery — find accounts pinning in your category, with follower counts.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchTerms	array	Keywords to search, e.g. minimalist kitchen. maxItems is split evenly across terms.
maxItems	integer	Max pins across all terms (1–1000).

Example

{
  "searchTerms": ["minimalist kitchen", "japandi living room"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Output (one row per pin)

pin_id, pin_url, title, description, alt_text, image, thumbnail, image_width, image_height, link, domain, is_video, is_user_uploaded, dominant_color, created_at, creator_username, creator_name, creator_followers, creator_url, board_name, board_url, board_pin_count, search_query.

Sample row

{
  "pin_id": "1112178070507487560",
  "pin_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1112178070507487560/",
  "title": "Japandi Kitchen Inspiration | Minimalist Scandinavian Kitchen",
  "image": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/51/b3/bf/51b3bff9675536f293e503fefbbfc839.jpg",
  "image_width": 1024,
  "image_height": 1536,
  "domain": "Uploaded by user",
  "dominant_color": "#92785f",
  "creator_username": "softresetstudiolab",
  "creator_name": "Soft Reset Studio",
  "board_name": "Pins by you",
  "search_query": "minimalist kitchen"
}

How it works

Pinterest's HTML is only an app shell — pin content loads client-side — so this actor does what the web app does: it opens a search page to establish a session (cookies + the current build's appVersion), then calls Pinterest's own public web resource endpoint with those headers and pages through results using the returned bookmark.

Honest notes

• link is empty for user-uploaded pins. Most pins are uploaded directly to Pinterest and have no outbound URL; domain reads Uploaded by user for those. Pins repinned from a website do carry a real link.
• title can be null. Pinterest does not require a title; use description or alt_text as the fallback. It is left null rather than filled with a guess.
• Save/repin and comment counts are not returned — Pinterest's search endpoint does not include them, so they are not claimed here rather than shipped empty.
• Pinterest blocks datacenter IPs aggressively. Requests are paced and retried, and the run ends with a clear status message if you're blocked. For larger runs enable Apify Proxy (residential).
• Respect Pinterest's Terms of Service and applicable law in your jurisdiction when using scraped data.