Pinterest Scraper & Pinterest API — pins, boards, profiles & search (no login)

Scrape Pinterest pins at scale without logging in: run a Pinterest search by keyword, or pull pins from pin URLs, public boards and profiles. For every pin you get the full-size image, title, description, save count, comments, reactions, the outbound product link and domain, product price, video URL, hashtags, pinner and board. Use it as an unofficial Pinterest API for Pinterest trends, product research and visual datasets.

What is Pinterest Scraper?

Pinterest Scraper is a Pinterest scraper that reads the same public JSON that pinterest.com loads for logged-out visitors and turns it into one clean, flat record per pin.

• No login, no cookies, no account — it only reads public pins, boards and profiles. Your Pinterest account is never involved, so it can never be banned.
• No official Pinterest API key needed: the official API only gives access to your own boards and requires app approval. This Actor works on any public keyword, pin, board or profile.
• Four modes: keyword search, specific pins (URLs, pin.it short links or IDs), board pins and profile pins (with profile follower and pin counts).
• Real engagement numbers: saves, repins, comments, shares and reactions for each pin — the signals that show what is trending.
• Polite by design: low concurrency, spaced requests, automatic retry with backoff on HTTP 429 and server errors.
• Download your data as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML, or read it via the Apify API.

What data can I extract from Pinterest?

Field	Description
id / url	Pin ID and pin URL
title / description / altText	Pin title, description and Pinterest's image alt text
imageUrl / imageWidth / imageHeight	Largest (original) image and its size
dominantColor	Dominant image color as hex, e.g. #6c5942
link / domain / siteName	Outbound destination URL (product page, blog, shop) and its domain
price / currency	Product price when Pinterest shows one (product pins)
saveCount / repinCount	How many times the pin was saved / repinned
commentCount / shareCount / reactionCount	Comments, shares and reactions
isVideo / videoUrl	Video flag and MP4 (or HLS) video URL
hashtags	Hashtags on the pin
createdAt	Pin creation date (ISO 8601)
pinner	Username, full name, follower count and profile URL of the pinner
board	Board name and URL
profile	user mode: followers, following, pin count, board count, monthly views, about, website
searchQuery / source / scrapedAt	Which keyword or input produced the pin, and when

How can I use Pinterest data?

• Product & trend research for e-commerce and dropshipping — search a niche ("kitchen gadgets", "summer dress") and sort by saveCount to see which US products and styles people save most, with the outbound shop link and price.
• Competitor & brand monitoring — track a brand's profile and boards: which pins get saved, which domains they drive traffic to, how follower counts move.
• Visual inspiration datasets — collect full-size images, dominant colors, alt texts and hashtags for mood boards, design research or ML training sets (mind image copyright, see FAQ).
• Influencer discovery — find pinners with high follower counts and highly saved pins in your niche.
• SEO for Pinterest — study titles, descriptions and hashtags of top-saved pins for your keywords before you write your own.

How to scrape Pinterest

1. Click Try for free on this Actor's page (you need a free Apify account).
2. Choose a Mode: search by keyword, specific pins, board pins or profile pins.
3. Enter your keywords, pin URLs, board URLs or profiles, and set Max pins per keyword / board / profile.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish (about 2 pins per second with details).
5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or connect it to your tools via the API.

How much does it cost to scrape Pinterest?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for pins you actually get:

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005 per run
pin-result (one pin in the dataset)	$0.0015 per pin = $1.50 per 1,000 pins

Pin details, profile stats and video URLs are included at no extra charge. Error items (invalid inputs, pins/boards/profiles not found, failed fetches) are never charged.

Example: 1 run × 1,000 pins = $0.005 + $1.50 = $1.505.

The Apify free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, which covers roughly 3,300 pins per month. You can set a maximum cost per run; once it is reached the Actor stops cleanly and keeps everything scraped so far.

⬇️ Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	search | pins | board | user	search	What to scrape (required)
searchQueries	list of strings	—	search mode: keywords, e.g. home decor
pinUrls	list of strings	—	pins mode: pin URLs, pin.it links or pin IDs
boardUrls	list of strings	—	board mode: board URLs, e.g. https://www.pinterest.com/dominomag/kitchen-ideas/
profiles	list of strings	—	user mode: profile URLs or usernames
maxItems	integer	50	Max pins per keyword / board / profile (ignored in pins mode)
includeDetails	boolean	true	Fetch each pin's detail data (saves, repins, comments, hashtags, video, price). Off = ~2x faster, fewer fields in search results

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["home decor", "wireless earbuds"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeDetails": true
}

All pins of a board: { "mode": "board", "boardUrls": ["https://www.pinterest.com/dominomag/kitchen-ideas/"], "maxItems": 500 }

⬆️ Output

One item per pin. The Overview table view in Apify Console shows image, title, saves, comments, domain, price, pinner and board at a glance.

{
  "id": "1065171749412592714",
  "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1065171749412592714/",
  "title": "DIY jellyfish light 🪼💗✨",
  "description": "Follow @roomtery for more 🎀 cr: ek_graphic_\n\nDIY jellyfish made out of pipe cleaners💗\n\n\n#diy #handmade #crafts #artsandcrafts #gift #giftideas #decor #jellyfish #pipecleaners",
  "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ef/9b/1a/ef9b1ac0a01fd77669712a3749e3b085.jpg",
  "imageWidth": 720,
  "imageHeight": 1280,
  "dominantColor": "#795a48",
  "link": "https://roomtery.com/products/hanging-jellyfish-lights",
  "domain": "roomtery.com",
  "createdAt": "2025-07-19T21:59:05.000Z",
  "saveCount": 186377,
  "repinCount": 120536,
  "commentCount": 792,
  "shareCount": 9803,
  "reactionCount": 45355,
  "isVideo": true,
  "videoUrl": "https://v1.pinimg.com/videos/iht/expMp4/26/d7/41/26d7416859947c294c0796811c13d67a_720w.mp4",
  "price": null,
  "currency": null,
  "siteName": "roomtery",
  "hashtags": ["#diy", "#handmade", "#crafts", "#artsandcrafts", "#gift", "#giftideas", "#decor", "#jellyfish", "#pipecleaners"],
  "pinner": { "username": "roomtery", "fullName": "roomtery", "followers": 336489, "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/roomtery/" },
  "board": { "name": "DIY AESTHETIC ROOM DECOR | roomtery", "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/roomtery/diy-aesthetic-room-decor-roomtery/" },
  "altText": "DIY jellyfish light made out of pipe cleaners, jellyfish hanging tutorial",
  "searchQuery": null,
  "source": "1065171749412592714",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-05T02:32:09.462Z"
}

Notes on fields:

• link and domain are null for pins uploaded directly to Pinterest (no outbound link).
• price / currency are filled only when Pinterest exposes a product price to logged-out visitors; most pins have none.
• With includeDetails: false, search results have no saveCount, repinCount, commentCount, shareCount, videoUrl or hashtag list (board and profile pins still include saveCount and videos).
• videoUrl is an MP4 when available, otherwise an HLS (.m3u8) stream.
• In user mode every item also carries a profile object with the profile's followers, following, pinCount, boardCount, monthlyViews, about and websiteUrl.

Error items

{ "input": "https://www.pinterest.com/erinturnage/nope-nope-nope/", "mode": "board", "errorType": "NOT_FOUND", "error": "Board not found." }

errorType is NOT_FOUND (deleted or private pin / board / profile), INVALID_INPUT, BLOCKED (Pinterest refused the request) or FETCH_FAILED. Error items are never charged.

Integrations and API

Apify API — start a run and get results over HTTP:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/istmobot~pinterest-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode": "search", "searchQueries": ["home decor"], "maxItems": 20}'

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("istmobot/pinterest-scraper").call(run_input={
    "mode": "search",
    "searchQueries": ["kitchen gadgets"],
    "maxItems": 100,
})
for pin in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(pin.get("saveCount"), pin.get("title"), pin.get("link"))

Node.js (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('istmobot/pinterest-scraper').call({
    mode: 'board',
    boardUrls: ['https://www.pinterest.com/dominomag/kitchen-ideas/'],
    maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

• Schedules — run it daily or weekly to track how Pinterest trends and save counts change over time.
• Webhooks — get notified or trigger your own pipeline when a run finishes.
• Make, Zapier, n8n — send pins to Google Sheets, Airtable, Shopify tools, Slack or a database without code.
• AI agents — use it from Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client via the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com).

FAQ

Do I need a Pinterest account or login? No. The Actor never logs in and uses no cookies of any account. It only reads what any logged-out visitor can see on pinterest.com.

Is it legal to scrape Pinterest? This Actor only collects publicly available data and does not bypass any login. Public data is generally fine to collect, but you are responsible for how you use it. Images and videos remain the copyright of their owners — use them for research and analysis, and get permission before republishing them. Pins and profiles can contain personal data (names, usernames), so if you store or process it, be mindful of GDPR and similar privacy laws. If unsure, consult a lawyer.

Can I scrape private boards or secret pins? No. Only public pins, boards and profiles are accessible.

Why are some fields null? Pinterest does not expose every field for every pin: pins uploaded directly have no outbound link, most pins have no price, and older pins may have no reactions. Search results also need includeDetails: true for counters such as saveCount.

How many pins can I get per search? Search follows Pinterest's own pagination, usually several hundred pins per keyword. For more coverage, add related keywords.

Which Pinterest countries work? Any public pin URL works (pinterest.com, pinterest.co.uk, de.pinterest.com…). Search results reflect Pinterest's default (US English) results.

Do I need proxies? No. Requests are few, lightweight and spaced out.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run it on any interval and combine with webhooks or integrations to push the results wherever you need them.

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Disclaimer

This is an unofficial tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Pinterest, Inc.