Pinterest Search Scraper — Pins, Boards, People & Links

Pinterest Search Scraper scrapes Pinterest search results by keyword and returns pins as JSON — title, description, outbound link and its domain, full-size image, video file, Pinterest's topic tags, hashtags, reactions, pinner with follower count, board and date — or, if you choose, boards or people (profiles) matching the keyword. Saves, comments and shares per pin are one switch away.

$0.0016 per result — 1,000 pins for $1.60. No start fee, no login, no browser. Promoted pins are skipped and never charged; searches that fail are free.

Tested head-to-head — 15 October 2026

The same search ("bali villa", 20 pins) on this Actor and the five most-used Pinterest search Actors we could run with a $0.10 cost cap, each on a fresh free-plan account:

	This Actor	Other Pinterest search Actors
Pins returned of 20	20 of 20	20 of 20 for three; one stopped at 10, one returned 3 boards instead of pins
Cost of the run on the free plan	$0.032	$0.033 (for 10 pins) – $0.098 (for 3 rows)
Start fee	none	none to $0.09 per run
Time	2 s	2 – 90 s
Columns	36 flat columns — topic tags, link domain, pinner followers, board size side by side	13–21 flat columns, or 63–759 nested raw fields

What is Pinterest Search Scraper?

A trend, content and competitor research tool for marketers, e-commerce brands, content creators, agencies and AI agents. It asks Pinterest the same question the search box does and turns every result into a clean row: what people pin for "minimalist kitchen", which websites those pins send traffic to, which creators and boards dominate a topic.

Typical uses:

• Content and trend research — what images, titles and descriptions win for your keyword this week.
• Traffic source discovery — linkDomain shows which websites Pinterest sends clicks to for a topic; a list of competitors comes out of one search.
• Creator and board discovery — switch What to search to People or Boards and get the accounts to partner with, with follower counts.
• Video pin research — Video pins returns the video file and duration for every result.
• Image datasets — full-size originals with width, height and dominant colour.

What is in every row

Field	Meaning
pinId, url, title, description, altText	The pin
link, linkDomain	Where the pin sends people — the website behind it
imageUrl, imageWidth, imageHeight, dominantColor	The full-size original image
isVideo, videoUrl, videoDurationSec	For video pins
thumbnailUrl	A small 236 px preview of the same image
tags, hashtags	Topic labels Pinterest attaches to the pin ("Bali Villa Floor Plan", "Modern Courtyard") and the #hashtags from its description
reactions	Reactions shown on the pin
saves, comments, shares	Only with 📊 Add details on — Pinterest search does not show them, so without details these fields are left out rather than sent empty
pinnerId, pinnerUsername, pinnerName, pinnerFollowers, pinnerUrl, pinnerAvatarUrl	Who saved the pin
boardId, boardName, boardUrl, boardPinCount	The board it sits on
createdAt, isPromoted	Date; promoted flag
price, priceCurrency	Shopping pins only (left out on other pins)
query, searchType, page, position	Which search and where in the results
searchedAs	Only when Pinterest corrected your spelling: the words it actually searched ("minimalst kitchn" → "minimalist kitchen")

Board rows (type: board): boardId, name, url, description, pins, sections, isCollaborative, ownerUsername, ownerName, coverImageUrl, lastPinnedAt — plus followers with 📊 Add details.

Profile rows (type: profile): username, name, url, followers, pins, boards, isVerified, websiteVerified, lastPinAt, avatarUrl, userId — plus about (bio), website, following, monthlyViews, createdAt (join date), isBusiness and isPrivate with 📊 Add details (Pinterest's people search does not say whether an account is a business one, so without details the field is left out rather than guessed).

Error rows (type: error, free) explain a search that found nothing, a URL that is not a Pinterest search, or a keyword with no letters — always at the end of the dataset, so the table starts with data.

How much does it cost?

$0.0016 per result — pin, board or profile, one row, one charge. Cheaper on higher Apify plans: $0.00144 (Bronze), $0.00128 (Silver), $0.00112 (Gold and up).

• Promoted pins: skipped and $0.
• Searches that fail or find nothing, inputs that are not searches: $0. No start fee, no proxy charge.
• 📊 Add details: same price per row, the run takes about twice as long.

Job	This Actor	Most-used Pinterest search Actor
1,000 pins	$1.60	$3.99
10,000 pins across 50 keywords	$16	$39.90

Checked on the Apify Store on 14 October 2026 against the Pinterest search Actor with the most monthly users ($0.00399 per result on the free plan, $0.00199 on Gold). Other popular Pinterest search Actors charge $0.002–0.00345 per result, some plus a start fee of $0.01–0.09 per run.

Set Max cost per run in the run options to cap a run: the Actor stops by itself, green, once the cap is reached, and everything written is paid for.

How to use it in three steps

1. Type keywords into 🔍 Search keywords, one per line — or paste Pinterest search URLs.
2. Pick What to search (Pins, Video pins, Boards or People) and how many Results per search.
3. Press Start, then download JSON, CSV or Excel — or call the run from the API, n8n, Make, Zapier or an AI agent.

⬇️ Input

{
  "keywords": ["minimalist kitchen", "fall outfits"],
  "searchType": "pins",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 200,
  "fetchPinStats": false
}

fetchPinStats is the 📊 Add details switch (the API also accepts fetchDetails).

⬆️ Output

A real row from {"keywords": ["cake recipe"], "searchType": "videos", "fetchPinStats": true} (14 October 2026, shortened):

{
  "type": "pin",
  "pinId": "140806234512418",
  "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/140806234512418/",
  "title": "Hershey’s “perfectly chocolate” Chocolate Cake",
  "link": "https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/hersheys-perfectly-chocolate-chocolate-cake/",
  "linkDomain": "tastesbetterfromscratch.com",
  "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/79/99/fc/7999fcd5874a64ebce32b38d599bd0a7.jpg",
  "isVideo": true,
  "videoUrl": "https://v1.pinimg.com/videos/iht/hls/ca/c5/5f/cac55f5cf2298e231c12061035d88962_v2.m3u8",
  "videoDurationSec": 21,
  "reactions": 930,
  "saves": 9705,
  "comments": 0,
  "shares": 1586,
  "tags": ["Juicy Chocolate Cake", "Easy Cakes To Bake", "Chocolate Cake Chocolate Frosting"],
  "hashtags": [],
  "pinnerUsername": "xtina_nic",
  "pinnerFollowers": 475,
  "boardName": "Sweet corner",
  "boardPinCount": 835,
  "createdAt": "2025-10-21T00:34:27.000Z",
  "query": "cake recipe",
  "searchType": "videos",
  "position": 3
}

Tips

• Find the websites behind a niche: run a keyword with 500 results and group rows by linkDomain.
• Engagement ranking: turn on 📊 Add details and sort by saves.
• Topic map: count tags across 500 pins of a keyword — the labels Pinterest itself uses for the niche.
• Typos: Pinterest quietly searches a corrected spelling; the run's status message and searchedAs tell you when it did. A keyword Pinterest does not recognise at all still returns loose matches — the status message warns about it.
• Deep searches: on popular keywords Pinterest keeps paging well past 100 results; niche terms run out sooner.

Integrations and API

Run it from the Apify API, the JavaScript and Python clients, a schedule, or a webhook, and push results to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack or a database through n8n, Make or Zapier. The Apify MCP server exposes it to Claude, ChatGPT and other agents as a tool: "find the 100 most-saved Pinterest pins about Bali villas and the sites they link to".

For AI agents

• Minimal input: {"keywords": ["bali villa"]} — 50 pins. Add "searchType": "boards" or "people" for boards or profiles, "maxItemsPerQuery": 200 for more.
• Returns: type: "pin", "board" or "profile" rows; type: "error" rows (free) only at the end of the dataset. Every row carries query and position.
• Cost: $0.0016 per row, nothing per run; failed and empty searches are free.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Pinterest? The Actor reads public search results any visitor sees without an account. Profile names and usernames are public business or creator information; you are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with Pinterest's terms and the privacy laws that apply to you (GDPR, CCPA).

Do I need a Pinterest account or API key? No.

Why is link empty on some pins? Those pins were uploaded straight to Pinterest and point nowhere — Pinterest shows them as "Uploaded by user".

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