Pinterest Scraper

Scrape Pinterest pins from keyword search, boards, profiles and pin URLs: title, description, image URLs in every size, video URL, outbound link and domain, saves, repin and comment counts, created date, pinner and board, plus board and profile records with follower counts. No login, no Pinterest account, no API key. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull the data through the API.

What does Pinterest Scraper do?

Pinterest Scraper reads the public Pinterest website the way a logged-out visitor sees it and returns clean, flat records:

• Keyword search — enter keywords such as "minimalist living room" or "easy dinner recipes" and get the pins Pinterest shows for them, page after page, in Pinterest's own ranking.
• Boards — paste a board link and get the board record (name, description, number of pins and followers, category, owner) and its pins in board order.
• Profiles — paste a profile link and get the profile record (name, bio, website, followers, following, pins, boards, monthly views, verified status) and the pins that account published. Accounts that only save other people's pins return their recent saves.
• Single pins — paste pin links and get the full pin record: saves, repins, comments, shares, reactions, created date, original creator, video file and more.
• Pin data — every pin has its image URLs in all sizes (236 px to original), the dominant colour, the video URL and length for video pins, the outbound link and its domain, the pinner and the board it is saved to.

The type of each link is detected automatically, so one run can mix search keywords, boards, profiles and pins. Country domains (pinterest.de, pinterest.co.uk, …) and pin.it short links are understood too.

Use cases

• Content marketers and social media managers — find the pins and formats that win in your niche (video vs image, titles, descriptions, hashtags) and plan your own boards around them.
• E-commerce and brand teams — see which domains and product pages get pinned for your category keywords, and track how often a competitor's pins are saved.
• SEO and traffic analysts — collect the outbound links and domains behind top pins for a keyword to find the sites Pinterest sends traffic to.
• Influencer and partnership scouts — compare profiles by followers, monthly views, number of pins and boards, website and verification before reaching out.
• Designers and trend researchers — build mood boards and colour studies from image URLs and dominant colours of hundreds of pins per theme.
• Data and AI teams — gather images with titles, descriptions and alt texts as a labelled dataset for image classification or recommendation experiments.

How much does it cost?

You pay only for the results you get (pay-per-event). Duplicates and items over your maxItems limit are never charged.

Event	What you pay for	Free plan	Paid plans (from)
pin	One pin in the dataset	$1.50 per 1,000	$1.00 per 1,000
board	One board record (board URLs only)	$2.00 per 1,000	$1.50 per 1,000
profile	One profile record (profile URLs only)	$2.00 per 1,000	$1.50 per 1,000

"Paid plans (from)" is the Gold-and-above price; Bronze and Silver plans sit in between. Apify also charges a tiny actor-start fee ($0.00005 per run). Board and profile records can be switched off with Include board and profile records.

Worked examples (Free plan prices):

1. Keyword research — 4 keywords × 250 pins = 1,000 pins: 1,000 × $1.50 / 1,000 = $1.50.
2. Competitor monitoring — 20 brand profiles with 100 pins each: 2,000 pins × $1.50 / 1,000 + 20 profile records × $2.00 / 1,000 = $3.00 + $0.04 = $3.04.

The Apify Free plan includes $5 monthly credit, enough for about 3,300 pins every month.

How to use Pinterest Scraper

In Apify Console:

1. Open Pinterest Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Enter Search queries and/or paste Pinterest URLs (pins, boards, profiles or search pages). The form is prefilled with one keyword and one board.
3. Set Max pins per source (per keyword, board or profile) and Max items (for the whole run).
4. Optionally switch on Include full pin details for comment counts and created dates of board and profile pins.
5. Click Start. 50 pins take about 6 seconds, 600 pins about 30 seconds.
6. Open the Output tab and export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Through the API:

1. Get your API token in Apify Console → Settings → Integrations.
2. Call the actor with your input JSON (see Integrations and API).
3. Read the dataset items from the run.

Input

Fill in at least one of searchQueries or startUrls.

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	array	–	Keywords to search on Pinterest, e.g. minimalist living room.
startUrls	array	–	Pin (pinterest.com/pin/703756183311018/), board (pinterest.com/bhg/adorable-pets/), profile (pinterest.com/bhg/) or search (pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=garden) URLs, mixed. pin.it short links and country domains work.
maxPinsPerSource	integer	100	Pins per keyword, board or profile. A pin URL always returns its one pin.
includePinDetails	boolean	false	Open each board/profile pin's own record to add comment count, share count, created date and creator. One extra request per pin.
includeBoardAndProfileDetails	boolean	true	Also output one board record per board URL and one profile record per profile URL.
maxItems	integer	1000	Hard cap on all output items (pins, boards and profiles) in the run.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy	Proxy settings. The default works for Pinterest.
debug	boolean	false	Log every page fetched.

Example — two keywords, 300 pins each:

{
    "searchQueries": ["minimalist living room", "japandi bedroom"],
    "maxPinsPerSource": 300,
    "maxItems": 600
}

Example — a competitor's profile and one of their boards, with full pin details:

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.pinterest.com/bhg/",
        "https://www.pinterest.com/bhg/adorable-pets/"
    ],
    "maxPinsPerSource": 100,
    "includePinDetails": true
}

Output

Every item has type (pin, board or profile), sourceType (search, board, profile or pin) and source (the keyword or URL it came from). Examples from a real run on 2026-11-03 (long text shortened).

Pin (from a pin URL, full details)

{
    "type": "pin",
    "id": "4644405859806257",
    "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/4644405859806257/",
    "title": "LivingRoom Ideas",
    "description": null,
    "altText": null,
    "link": null,
    "domain": null,
    "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/14/ea/ad14ea6a53b406bb19ceff6e0af3b03f.jpg",
    "imageWidth": 736,
    "imageHeight": 1308,
    "images": {
        "236x": "https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ad/14/ea/ad14ea6a53b406bb19ceff6e0af3b03f.jpg",
        "474x": "https://i.pinimg.com/474x/ad/14/ea/ad14ea6a53b406bb19ceff6e0af3b03f.jpg",
        "736x": "https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ad/14/ea/ad14ea6a53b406bb19ceff6e0af3b03f.jpg",
        "orig": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/14/ea/ad14ea6a53b406bb19ceff6e0af3b03f.jpg"
    },
    "dominantColor": "#91715f",
    "isVideo": true,
    "videoUrl": "https://v1.pinimg.com/videos/mc/720p/af/8d/74/af8d749b5ea701f0700496cbab491cc2.mp4",
    "videoDurationSec": 17.2,
    "saves": 2074,
    "repinCount": 193,
    "commentCount": 0,
    "shareCount": 24,
    "reactionCount": 244,
    "createdAt": "2024-11-03T18:34:58Z",
    "isPromoted": false,
    "pinner": {
        "id": "4644543274159136",
        "username": "alyssaburtt",
        "fullName": "Alyssa",
        "followerCount": 163,
        "profileUrl": "https://www.pinterest.com/alyssaburtt/",
        "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/75x75_RS/49/42/47/4942477f8eb48ecc8ed1c428ab1089b2.jpg"
    },
    "creator": null,
    "board": {
        "id": "4644474555124904",
        "name": "LOVE VISIONS ❤️‍🔥",
        "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/alyssaburtt/love-visions/",
        "pinCount": null
    },
    "sourceType": "pin",
    "source": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/living-room-interior-design-ideas-with-plants-and-cozy-furniture-video--4644405859806257/"
}

Pin (from keyword search)

{
    "type": "pin",
    "id": "e1_AfqPShz8nLunssS_PSUSLUe6Ear1LZzDNN7U2FFyWCg2Pwn9VZn9",
    "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/e1_AfqPShz8nLunssS_PSUSLUe6Ear1LZzDNN7U2FFyWCg2Pwn9VZn9/",
    "title": "simple calm living room decor",
    "description": "welcoming living room that feels contemporary without losing its warmth. #ModernOrganic #LivingRoomIdeas ...",
    "link": null,
    "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a0/50/50/a05050eef158ca30a2dd0a889e59b1c6.jpg",
    "imageWidth": 1536,
    "imageHeight": 2752,
    "isVideo": false,
    "saves": null,
    "repinCount": null,
    "reactionCount": 0,
    "createdAt": "2026-10-25T15:30:13Z",
    "pinner": { "id": "917397524002939163", "username": "HSandKD", "fullName": "Home Shine & Kitchen Dine", "followerCount": 18, "profileUrl": "https://www.pinterest.com/HSandKD/", "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/140x140_RS/80/9d/98/809d98a96d467f009d74ee62abf8996f.jpg" },
    "board": { "id": "917397455285102033", "name": "Boho Living Room Ideas", "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/HSandKD/boho-living-room-ideas/", "pinCount": 16 },
    "sourceType": "search",
    "source": "minimalist living room"
}

(Same fields as above; shortened here.)

Board

{
    "type": "board",
    "id": "56787713990443348",
    "name": "Adorable Pets",
    "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/bhg/adorable-pets/",
    "description": "We love our pets, and your pets too. We've got care tips, DIY pet toys, and fun ideas for your furry friends...",
    "pinCount": 431,
    "followerCount": 3394565,
    "sectionCount": 0,
    "collaboratorCount": 0,
    "isCollaborative": false,
    "category": "animals",
    "coverImageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/custom_covers/200x150/56787713990443348_1539965723.jpg",
    "createdAt": null,
    "owner": { "id": "56787782709805180", "username": "bhg", "fullName": "Better Homes and Gardens", "followerCount": null, "profileUrl": "https://www.pinterest.com/bhg/", "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/75x75_RS/dc/db/ab/dcdbabbba3cbf862112575b69ae233e7.jpg" },
    "sourceType": "board",
    "source": "https://www.pinterest.com/bhg/adorable-pets/"
}

Profile

{
    "type": "profile",
    "id": "56787782709805180",
    "username": "bhg",
    "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/bhg/",
    "fullName": "Better Homes and Gardens",
    "about": "Inspiring ideas for home, gardening, food, holidays, and living well. BHG—100 years of powering your passions at home",
    "websiteUrl": "http://bhg.com",
    "domainUrl": "bhg.com",
    "domainVerified": true,
    "followerCount": 4049929,
    "followingCount": 1279,
    "pinCount": 165357,
    "boardCount": 137,
    "monthlyViews": 10000001,
    "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/280x280_RS/dc/db/ab/dcdbabbba3cbf862112575b69ae233e7.jpg",
    "isVerified": true,
    "isPartner": true,
    "createdAt": "2011-07-07T07:11:38Z",
    "sourceType": "profile",
    "source": "https://www.pinterest.com/bhg/"
}

Field notes:

• saves is Pinterest's save count for the pin's image across Pinterest; repinCount is the saves of this particular pin.
• pinner is the account that saved the pin to board; creator is the account that originally published it, when Pinterest names one.
• videoUrl is an MP4 file when Pinterest offers one, otherwise an HLS stream (.m3u8). videoDurationSec is in seconds.
• createdAt is UTC (ISO 8601). Fields Pinterest does not show for a pin are null (see Limits for which source has which counters).
• monthlyViews is null when the account hides it.

Integrations and API

Run the actor and get the items back in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/innolabs~pinterest-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQueries": ["japandi bedroom"], "maxPinsPerSource": 100}'

Python with apify-client:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("innolabs/pinterest-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "startUrls": ["https://www.pinterest.com/bhg/adorable-pets/"],
        "maxPinsPerSource": 200,
    }
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if item["type"] == "pin":
        print(item["saves"], item["title"], item["link"])

• Make, Zapier, n8n — use the Apify app/node to start the actor and send pins to Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion or Slack.
• Scheduling — create a schedule in Apify Console (e.g. every Monday) to track a keyword or a competitor's profile over time.
• Webhooks — trigger your pipeline when a run finishes.
• AI agents (MCP) — connect Claude, Cursor or other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com and let your agent research Pinterest on demand.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Pinterest?

The scraper only collects data Pinterest shows publicly to any visitor without logging in: pins, boards and public profiles. It does not log in or access private boards. Profiles and pins contain names of people, which may be personal data under laws such as GDPR, so make sure you have a legitimate reason to store them and that your use complies with Pinterest's terms.

Do I need a Pinterest account or proxies?

No. The scraper needs no login or cookies, and the default Apify Proxy setting works. Throttled requests are retried automatically.

Why do search results have no save counts?

Pinterest's logged-out search shows pins without their counters and with an encrypted pin id (it starts with e1_). Title, description, images, video, link, created date, reactions, pinner and board are included; for saves, repins and comments use board, profile or pin URLs.

How many pins can I get?

Search keeps paging as long as Pinterest shows more results (tested with 200 pins per keyword). Boards are read to the end (a 431-pin board returned 426 pins). Profiles return the pins the account published, page by page. maxPinsPerSource and maxItems keep the cost under your control.

What if a link fails?

Each keyword, board, profile and pin is processed on its own. If a link is wrong, a profile does not exist or a pin was deleted, the run continues with the rest and the problem is listed in the run log and the run's SUMMARY record. You are not charged for failed links. If every link fails, the run is marked as failed with the reason.

Can I download the images and videos?

The dataset contains direct image URLs for every size and the video file URL, which you can download with any tool or pass to an image pipeline.

Limits

• Search results: no saves, repin or comment counts, and the pin id is Pinterest's encrypted id (e1_…) instead of the numeric one; full pin details are not available for these pins.
• Board pins: saves and repins are included, comment count and created date only with Include full pin details. The newest 50 pins of a board carry numeric ids; older board pins carry encrypted ids and cannot be expanded with full details.
• Profiles return the pins the account published ("Created"); accounts without own pins return their 50 most recently saved pins. A profile's boards are not listed; add board URLs to scrape them.
• Board section URLs scrape the whole board.
• Related pins ("More to explore") and comment texts need a Pinterest login and are not collected.
• Private boards and profiles are not accessible.