# Pinterest Scraper - Pins, Images & Creators (No API Key) (`flash_scraper/pinterest-scraper`) Actor

Search Pinterest by keyword and export clean rows: pin title, description, alt text, full-resolution image URL, outbound link, domain, creator username and followers, board name and URL, created date and dominant colour. Public pins only, no login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/flash\_scraper/pinterest-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Flash Scrape](https://apify.com/flash_scraper) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, E-commerce, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.80 / 1,000 pins

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search Pinterest, e.g. 'minimalist kitchen', 'wedding centerpiece'. maxItems is split evenly across the terms.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pins to return across all search terms.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Route requests through Apify Proxy. Recommended for larger runs: this site throttles or blocks datacenter IPs, and residential proxies avoid that.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "minimalist kitchen"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "minimalist kitchen"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("flash_scraper/pinterest-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searchTerms": ["minimalist kitchen"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("flash_scraper/pinterest-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "minimalist kitchen"
  ]
}' |
apify call flash_scraper/pinterest-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=flash_scraper/pinterest-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/AX8qkSTz4cm9EHpAj/builds/luIaluFP9RFCK1NfI/openapi.json