Pinterest Scraper

This Apify Actor scrapes Pinterest to collect structured data for pins, user profiles, boards/collections, search results, and ideas pages.

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Features

• Pin detail - Get all information per pin: images, videos, description, owner, board, like/repin/share counts, and more.
• Comments - Harvest all comments for a pin (paginated, no hard limit).
• Ideas pages - Fetch all pins from an ideas/topic feed URL.
• User profile and pins - Scrape a user profile info and/or all their pins.
• Boards/Collections - Get every pin from any board URL.
• Search - Search any keyword and retrieve all matching pin results.
• Bookmark-based pagination up to a configurable endPage.
• Global maxItems cap to avoid over-scraping.
• Apify Proxy integration for reliable access.

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Input Configuration

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1054827543951238554/",
    "https://www.pinterest.com/ideas/beauty/935541271955/",
    "https://www.pinterest.com/dudadelsanto/",
    "https://www.pinterest.com/dudadelsanto/nail-inspo/",
    "https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=Valentine%E2%80%99s%20Nail%20Art&rs=hub_page"
  ],
  "search": "design",
  "includeUserInfoOnly": false,
  "includeComments": false,
  "maxItems": 10,
  "endPage": 1,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array	No*	Pinterest URLs to scrape (pin, ideas, user, board, or search).
search	string	No*	Keyword to search on Pinterest - generates a search URL automatically.
includeUserInfoOnly	boolean	No	For user profile URLs: output only user metadata, skip pins. Default false.
includeComments	boolean	No	Fetch all comments for each pin. Increases request count. Default false.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum total items to push. Default 100.
endPage	integer	No	Last page of results to paginate through per URL. Default Infinite.
proxy	object	Yes	Proxy configuration. Apify Proxy (useApifyProxy: true) is recommended.

At least one of startUrls or search must be provided.

Supported URL types

URL pattern	Scraped as
pinterest.com/pin/{id}/	Pin detail
pinterest.com/ideas/{category}/{id}/	Ideas feed
pinterest.com/{username}/	User profile + pins
pinterest.com/{username}/{board}/	Board / collection feed
pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=...	Keyword search results

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Output Structure

Pin record

{
  "type": "pin",
  "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1096556209247124248",
  "id": "1096556209247124248",
  "title": "Altered Photographs",
  "description": "Whimsical Middle School Altered Photograph Art Project",
  "created_at": "Sat, 15 Oct 2022 14:56:20 +0000",
  "domain": "smallhandsbigart.com",
  "dominant_color": "#626862",
  "repin_count": 2538,
  "like_count": 162,
  "comment_count": 5,
  "share_count": 44,
  "images": { "236x": { "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/236x/..." } },
  "link": null,
  "is_video": false,
  "video_url": null,
  "owner": {
    "id": "VXNlcjo...",
    "username": "podailsaves2",
    "full_name": "Podail Saves",
    "follower_count": 0,
    "image_medium_url": "https://i.pinimg.com/75x75_RS/..."
  },
  "board": {
    "id": "Qm9hcmQ6...",
    "name": "Quick Saves",
    "url": "/podailsaves2/_quick_saves/",
    "privacy": "public"
  },
  "comments": []
}

User record (when includeUserInfoOnly is true)

{
  "type": "user",
  "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/dudadelsanto/",
  "id": "...",
  "username": "dudadelsanto",
  "full_name": "...",
  "bio": "...",
  "website_url": "",
  "follower_count": 1200,
  "following_count": 340,
  "pin_count": 580,
  "board_count": 12,
  "image_medium_url": "https://i.pinimg.com/..."
}

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Proxy Usage

Pinterest blocks unauthenticated requests without good proxy coverage. Use Apify Proxy:

{ "useApifyProxy": true }

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Tech Stack

• Apify SDK and Crawlee for crawling and dataset management
• Puppeteer for headless browsing and in-page fetch calls to Pinterest internal API
• Node.js (ESM project)

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Happy scraping!