Welcome To Pinterest Explorer

About Pinterest.com

Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information (specifically "ideas")[6] on the internet using images, and on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos,[7] in the form of pinboards.[8] The site was created by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp, and had 450 million global monthly active users as of December 2022.[5] It is operated by Pinterest, Inc., based in San Francisco.

📌 About This Actor

Use this Actor to scrape data from Pinterest.com, including profile, pins, boards, sections, search for pins visual similarity, etc.

Features :

• ⭐ Scrape Profile, Pins, Boards, Section
• ⭐ Scrape using URL
• ⭐ Search for visual similarity (using URL)
• ⭐ Sort images by similarity (coming soon)
• ⭐ Generate Slide-Show
• ⭐ Minimal input
• ⭐ Fast like The Flash

📌 HTTP Cookies

Some function may require a cookie value from your HTTP session. For example: products search, etc (see below). You may want to include additional HTTP cookie, for example your Login Cookie named _pinterest_sess (this is just example, use at your own risk!).

• Login to Pinterest.com, and get cookie value named: _pinterest_sess from domain: https://www.pinterest.com
• Open ☢️ Advanced Options then copy paste:

📌 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
query	string array	See below for possible query values
limit	integer	Number of results (per query)
gallery	boolean	Generate HTML gallery/viewer

📌 Pinterest Query Language (PQL)

Common QUERY Syntax

[ [ <COMMAND:> | # | @ ] [ <NAME> | <ID> | <KEYWORD> ] [ / <SECTION> ] | <URL> ]

Possible QUERY values

Format	Example	Results
KEYWORDS	wood furniture	Search anything
KEYWORDS	square pants	Search pins
videos:KEYWORDS	videos:wooden chairs	Search videos
boards:KEYWORDS	boards:yellow cats	Search boards
users:KEYWORDS	users:apify	Search users
products:KEYWORDS	products:computer	Search products (cookie required)
#IDEA	#art or #961238559656	Scrape idea (topic/interest)
topic:IDEA	topic:961238559656
/info	#art/info	Topic info and stats
/pins	#art/pins	Topic related pins
/videos	#art/videos	Topic related videos
PIN	1234567890	Scrape pin (post) data
/info	1234567890/info	Pin info and stats
/related	1234567890/related	Related pins
/comments	1234567890/comments	Pin comments
/visual	1234567890/visual	Pin visual search
/products	1234567890/products	Pin related products (cookie required)
@USER	@microsoft	Scrape user data
/info	@microsoft/info	User info
/followers	@microsoft/followers	User followers
/following	@microsoft/following	User following
/pins	@microsoft/pins	User pins
/boards	@walmart/boards	User boards
/created	@walmart/created	User created pins
/products	@amazon/products	User (seller) products
@USER:BOARD	@microsoft:travel	Board data
board:<BOARD_ID>	board:120013001	Board data (by board ID)
/info	board:120013001/info	Board info
/sections	board:120013001/sections	Board section (sub-folders)
/pins	board:120013001/pins	Board pins
/members	board:120013001/members	Board members (collaborators)
/followers	board:120013001/followers	Board followers
@USER:BOARD:SECTION	@microsoft:travel:india	Sub-board data
section:<SECTION_ID>	section:310002100	Sub-board (by section ID)
/info	section:310002100/info	Sub-board info
/pins	section:310002100/pins	Sub-board pins
https:<PINTEREST_URL>	https://*.pinterest.com	Auto detect URL
/search/<TYPE>/?q=KEYWORD		Search for pins specific type
/ideas/<TOPIC>/<TOPIC_ID>		Search specific topic/interest
/pin/<PIN>	https://id.pinterest.com/pin/1234567890	User pin related
/pin/<PIN>/visual-search		User pin visual search
/<USER>	https://id.pinterest.com/microsoft	User info
/<USER>/pins		User pins
/<USER>/_created		User created pins
/<USER>/_saved		User boards
/<USER>/<BOARD>		Board pins
/<USER>/<BOARD>/<SECTION>		Board sub-folder pins

📌 Tutorial

Example #1: Searching

1# Searching pins
2{ "query": ["Window and Furniture"] }

1# Searching videos only
2{ "query": ["vidoes:Cat House"] }

1# Searching products
2{ "query": ["products:Square Pants"] }

Example #2: User Profile

1# User/profile info and stats
2{ "query": ["@microsoft/info"] }

1# User boards list
2{ "query": ["@microsoft/boards"] }

1# User products list
2{ "query": ["@amazon/products"] }

Example #3: Number of Results

1# use LIMIT to increase or limit number of results
2{ "query": ["@microsoft/pins"], "limit": 100 }

Example #4: Board and Section Pins

1# User Board pins
2{ "query": ["@microsoft:travel/pins"], "limit": 100 }

1# User Board may have sub-boards (sections)
2{ "query": ["@microsoft:travel:india/pins"], "limit": 100 }

1# For Board more detail info, use board:<BOARD_ID> 
2# use @USER/boards to get list of user boards and its ID
3{ "query": ["board:12300100002/info"] } 				# board info
4{ "query": ["board:12300100002/pins"], "limit": 100 } 	# board pins

1# board sub-folders list
2{ "query": ["board:12300100002/sections"], "limit": 100 }

Example #5: Pin Info

1# Pin info and statistics 
2{ "query": ["1234567890/info"] }

1# Pin related 
2{ "query": ["1234567890/related"], "limit": 50 }

1# Pin comments
2{ "query": ["1234567890/comments"], "limit": 50 }

Example #6: URL

1# As last resort, you can copy and paste an URL
2{ "query": ["https://id.pinterest.com/microsoft/"] }

Example #7: Multiple Queries

1# multiple user info
2{ 
3	"query": [
4		"@google/info",
5		"@walmart/info",
6		"@apify/info"
7	]
8}

1# multiple user pins
2{ 
3	"query": [
4		"@amazon/products",
5		"@walmart/products",
6		"@nike/products",
7		"@apify/pins",
8		"videos:yellow cat"
9	],
10	"limit": 10 # 10 results per-query
11}

1# Different query may have different attributes set. 
2# You can combine different type of query in a single request but not recommended.  
3{ 
4	"query": [
5		"@google/info",			
6		"120000199922/info", 	
7		"#art/info"
8	]
9}

📌 Output Samples

Sample #1: JSON Output

1{
2    "board": {
3        "name": "Lưu nhanh",
4        "url": "/bch7946/_quick_saves/"
5    },
6    "created_at": "Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:23:53 +0000",
7    "domain": "tracking.feedpress.it",
8    "grid_title": "Microsoft Ads Introduces Cookie-Based Experiment Feature",
9    "id": "1066438386741918409",
10    "image_crop": {
11        "max_y": 1
12    },
13    "image_signature": "1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c",
14    "images": {
15        "170x": {
16            "height": 123,
17            "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/236x/1c/c0/03/1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c.jpg",
18            "width": 236
19        },
20        "236x": {
21            "height": 123,
22            "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/236x/1c/c0/03/1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c.jpg",
23            "width": 236
24        },
25        "474x": {
26            "height": 248,
27            "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/474x/1c/c0/03/1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c.jpg",
28            "width": 474
29        },
30        "736x": {
31            "height": 386,
32            "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1c/c0/03/1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c.jpg",
33            "width": 736
34        },
35        "orig": {
36            "height": 840,
37            "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1c/c0/03/1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c.png",
38            "width": 1600
39        }
40    },
41    "is_uploaded": true,
42    "link": "http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/13962/13489926",
43    "pinner": {
44        "full_name": "Trâm Bích",
45        "id": "1066438524171071800",
46        "image_large_url": "https://s.pinimg.com/images/user/default_140.png",
47        "image_medium_url": "https://s.pinimg.com/images/user/default_75.png",
48        "image_small_url": "https://s.pinimg.com/images/user/default_30.png",
49        "username": "bch7946"
50    },
51    "reaction_counts": {
52        "1": 1
53    },
54    "rich_summary": {
55        "display_description": "Microsoft Ads added an additional feature to the Experiment functionality launched last July: cookie-based audience specifications.",
56        "display_name": "Microsoft Ads Introduces Cookie-Based Experiment Feature",
57        "favicon_images": {
58            "orig": "https://i.pinimg.com/favicons/e4793202be714776e9ec57cd8452dea6839302dcaf946ff7c8a69e07.png?9292791bfd447d72ea6e3c05a904eb89"
59        },
60        "favicon_link": "https://i.pinimg.com/favicons/e4793202be714776e9ec57cd8452dea6839302dcaf946ff7c8a69e07.png?9292791bfd447d72ea6e3c05a904eb89",
61        "id": "0c15d83843dccc4039dbbb3091133efd",
62        "site_name": "Search Engine Journal",
63        "type": "richpingriddata",
64        "type_name": "article",
65        "url": "http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/13962/13489926"
66    },
67    "type": "pin"
68}

Sample #2: Simple HTML Gallery

📌 Support

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