# Pinterest Intelligence Scraper (`normdata/pinterest-intelligence-scraper`) Actor

Extracts public Pinterest data from keywords and URLs. Get clean, structured records to research visual trends, creators, content performance, and product opportunities.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/normdata/pinterest-intelligence-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Norm Data](https://apify.com/normdata) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Social media, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 results

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

## 📌 Pinterest Intelligence Scraper

Extract public Pinterest data from keywords and direct URLs. Get clean, structured Pins, videos, boards, and profiles for visual trend research, creator analysis, content performance, and product opportunity discovery.

Pinterest search and public pages contain useful signals—saves, creators, destination links, boards, media, and commerce data—but reviewing them one by one does not scale. This Actor reads the public resources used by Pinterest, paginates results, and returns normalized records ready to export. No Pinterest API key, browser extension, or manual copying required.

### 🎯 Who uses it?

#### 📊 Market researchers

Discover styles, products, topics, and formats appearing in Pinterest searches, alongside publicly visible engagement signals.

#### 🔎 Competitive intelligence teams

Analyze competitor and creator profiles, boards, and Pins to compare activity, audiences, and external destinations.

#### 🛍️ Ecommerce and content marketers

Find Pins driving traffic to stores, blogs, or affiliate sites, then study how similar products are presented.

#### 🗂️ Data analysts and journalists

Build exportable datasets about creators, boards, topics, links, and public visual content.

### ✨ What it does

- **Keyword search:** Search a topic, product, style, or brand and collect Pins, videos, boards, or profiles.
- **Direct URLs:** Paste a public Pinterest Pin, video, board, profile, category, or search URL to collect that exact source.
- **Full Pin detail:** Retrieves publicly available metrics and metadata for every discovered Pin.
- **Automatic pagination:** Follows public Pinterest bookmarks until it reaches your chosen limit.
- **Quality filters:** Keep only Pins above a minimum save or reaction count, and optionally remove promoted content.
- **Normalized records:** Removes duplicate entities and avoids repeating values that were only provided as input.

### 📦 What data you get

Each entity exposes the public fields Pinterest provides at collection time. Key fields include:

| Entity | Useful data |
| --- | --- |
| Pins and videos | Title, description, saves, reactions, comments, shares, repins, total engagement, dates, image or video URL, external destination, domain, board, creator, commerce, and promotion signals. |
| Profiles | Username, name, followers, following, reach, views, Pins, boards, recent activity, website, and public verification signals. |
| Boards | Name, description, owner, Pin count, followers, collaborators, privacy, cover image, and related Pins. |

Every record includes `scrapedAt`, the UTC time it was collected. Download your Dataset from Apify as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

### 💡 Use cases

#### 📦 Discover small-business packaging ideas

Search for `small business packaging ideas`, select **Pins**, and start with 25 results. Get Pins with their saves, creators, and destination URLs to research ideas, brands, and stores.

```json
{
  "queries": ["small business packaging ideas"],
  "searchType": "pins",
  "maxResultsPerSeed": 25
}
```

#### 👤 Analyze a known board or profile

Paste a public board or profile URL. The Actor saves the entity record and its related Pins while respecting the limits you set.

```json
{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pinterest/" }],
  "maxResultsPerSeed": 50
}
```

#### 📈 Find content with visible interest

Filter a search to keep Pins with public engagement signals and exclude sponsored results.

```json
{
  "queries": ["home organization ideas"],
  "searchType": "pins",
  "minSaves": 100,
  "excludePromoted": true,
  "maxResultsPerSeed": 50
}
```

### ⚙️ Quick setup

Use **Pinterest URLs**, **Search keywords**, or both together. When you combine sources, the Actor processes each one and removes repeated entities during the run.

- **Results per URL or keyword:** Number of records to collect from each source. Start with 25 to validate a search.
- **Maximum results for this run:** Total record ceiling across all sources, helping control run size and cost.
- **What should keyword searches find?:** Pins, Videos, Boards, or Profiles.
- **Quality filters:** Minimum saves, minimum reactions, and organic-only content.
- **Include image and video URLs:** Keep the public media URLs Pinterest exposes for each result.

Pagination bookmarks, visitor cookies, temporary tokens, retries, and deduplication are handled automatically. You do not need to configure them.

### 🛡️ Limits and responsible use

The Actor reads public data over HTTP only. It does not use Playwright, Puppeteer, or a browser. Each run creates a dynamic anonymous session; no fixed cookies or tokens are included.

Pinterest can limit public requests. To reduce transient failures, the Actor uses controlled concurrency, exponential-backoff retries, and stops pagination at the final cursor or at your limits. If Pinterest returns a block, CAPTCHA, or non-recoverable error, the Actor records an error for that source and does not attempt to bypass controls.

### 🧪 Local development

```powershell
bun install
bun test
bun run typecheck
apify run
```

Local results are stored in `storage/datasets/default`.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Paste a public Pin, video, board, profile, category, or search URL when you already know the page you want to analyze.

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Enter topics, products, styles, brands, or ideas to discover new content. You can add several keywords in one run.

## `searchType` (type: `string`):

Choose Pins for ideas, Videos for video content, Boards for collections, or Profiles for creators and brands.

## `maxResultsPerSeed` (type: `integer`):

Choose how many records to collect from each source. Start with 25 for a quick test, then increase when the results look useful.

## `maxTotalResults` (type: `integer`):

Sets a ceiling for the whole run, even when you add several URLs or keywords. This helps control run size and cost.

## `detailLevel` (type: `string`):

Choose how much public detail to include. Standard is the balanced choice for most research.

## `includeEntityTypes` (type: `array`):

Choose which kinds of records are saved when a page contains a mix of Pins, videos, boards, and profiles.

## `includeMedia` (type: `boolean`):

Keep the public image and video links Pinterest exposes for each result.

## `minSaves` (type: `integer`):

Only keep Pins with at least this many publicly reported saves.

## `minReactions` (type: `integer`):

Only keep Pins with at least this many publicly reported reactions.

## `excludePromoted` (type: `boolean`):

Remove results Pinterest marks as promoted or sponsored.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/563018699561284/"
    }
  ],
  "queries": [
    "small business packaging ideas"
  ],
  "searchType": "pins",
  "maxResultsPerSeed": 25,
  "maxTotalResults": 1000,
  "detailLevel": "standard",
  "includeEntityTypes": [
    "pin",
    "board",
    "profile",
    "video"
  ],
  "includeMedia": true,
  "minSaves": 0,
  "minReactions": 0,
  "excludePromoted": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Normalized pins, videos, boards, profiles, and any per-seed errors.

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "small business packaging ideas"
    ],
    "maxResultsPerSeed": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("normdata/pinterest-intelligence-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 = {
    "queries": ["small business packaging ideas"],
    "maxResultsPerSeed": 25,
}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "small business packaging ideas"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerSeed": 25
}' |
apify call normdata/pinterest-intelligence-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,normdata/pinterest-intelligence-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/KmSqeirJeJ5N8Rrfv/builds/FV49YO25vBMIfv5fu/openapi.json