Pinterest Scraper: Ideas, Pins & Monitoring
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Pinterest Scraper: Ideas, Pins & Monitoring
Scrape Pinterest pins, Ideas feeds, topics, profiles, boards, sections, comments and product data. Find creators, filter results, and monitor new pins or engagement changes—no login required.
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Pinterest Scraper - Pins, Ideas, Profiles, Boards, Products and Monitoring
Extract public Pinterest search results, the main Ideas feed, Ideas topic pages, pin details, videos, profiles, boards, sections, comments, Tried It responses, product offers, creator leads, and monitored changes into structured datasets ready for analysis or automation.
- Search pins, videos, boards, or profiles with automatic pagination
- Scrape both the main
/ideas/feed and individual/ideas/topic/id/pages - Mix Pin, profile, board, search, and Ideas URLs in one Auto run
- Collect detailed pin media, creator, engagement, annotation, and shopping metadata
- Extract profile information together with created pins and owned boards
- Crawl board pins, sections, and the pins inside each section
- Collect public comments and Pinterest Tried It responses
- Filter by saves, followers, domain, date, Pin type, price, currency, or merchant verification
- Generate deduplicated creator-lead rows and a run-level analytics summary
- Monitor only new pins or new pins plus engagement and commerce changes
- Process up to 100 search terms, Pin IDs, profiles, boards, Ideas URLs, or mixed start URLs in one run
- Run up to 20 independent inputs and detail enrichments concurrently
- Choose a request language and residential-proxy country without supplying credentials
- Export results to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or access them through the Apify API
What can you do with this Pinterest Scraper?
| Mode | Input | Output | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
search | Search terms and searchType | Pins, video pins, boards, or profiles | Discovery, content research, market mapping |
auto | Mixed public Pinterest URLs | The correct record type for every recognized URL | Multi-source collection in one scheduled run |
ideas | Main Ideas URL or Ideas topic URLs | Root discovery pins; topic metadata and topic pins | Trend discovery and category research |
pinDetails | Numeric Pin IDs or Pin URLs | Complete pin records; optional comments | Creative, product, media, and engagement analysis |
profile | Usernames, @usernames, or profile URLs | Profile plus optional created pins and boards | Creator and brand research |
board | Public board URLs | Board, pins, sections, and optional section pins | Topic and collection analysis |
comments | Numeric Pin IDs or Pin URLs | Comments and Tried It responses | Audience feedback research |
relatedPins | Numeric Pin IDs or Pin URLs | Pinterest recommendations related to each source pin | Content expansion and similarity research |
Choose one specialized mode or use auto to combine supported URL types. Batch inputs run concurrently, while output order remains deterministic. Every content row includes source metadata so results can be traced back to the search term, profile, board, Ideas page, section, or source pin that produced it.
Quick start
- Open the Actor and click Try for free.
- Keep
searchselected and enter a keyword such asmodern kitchen. - Choose pins, videos, boards, or profiles and set
maxResults. - Click Start.
- Preview the dataset or download it in your preferred format.
The default input is a small search for public pins and requires no Pinterest account, API key, cookies, or user-supplied proxy configuration.
Input examples
Search pins, videos, boards, or profiles
maxResults applies separately to each search term. One row represents one pin, board, or profile returned for that term.
Combine mixed Pinterest URLs
Scrape the main Ideas feed and a topic
The main Ideas page uses its own cursor-based discovery feed. A topic URL returns one complete ideaTopic row when includeTopicMetadata is enabled, followed by its paginated pins.
Get complete pin details and comments
Collect profiles, created pins, and boards
Collect a board, its sections, and their pins
Collect comments and Tried It responses
Discover related pins
Filter product pins and generate creator leads plus analytics
Emit only new pins and later engagement changes
The first monitoring run emits every discovered Pin as monitorStatus: "new". Later runs suppress unchanged Pins and emit only new Pins or Pins whose engagement or commerce snapshot changed.
Complete output examples
Every row has a stable top-level shape for its recordType. Source fields that Pinterest does not provide are returned as null, false, empty objects, or empty arrays; top-level keys are not omitted. Dynamic image-size objects always contain the ten normalized size keys shown below. A failed primary input produces the documented error row instead of silently disappearing.
Complete pin output - 76 top-level fields
Complete board output - 31 top-level fields
Complete boardSection output - 20 top-level fields
Complete profile output - 63 top-level fields
Complete comment output - 29 top-level fields
Complete triedIt output - 25 top-level fields
Complete ideaTopic output - 38 top-level fields
Complete creatorLead output - 25 top-level fields
Complete analytics output - 24 top-level fields
Complete error output - 12 top-level fields
What data can you extract?
| Record | Complete field inventory |
|---|---|
| Pin identity and content | recordType, pinId, nodeId, url, type, title, gridTitle, description, descriptionHtml, altText, autoAltText, seoTitle, seoDescription, createdAt, domain, link, trackedLink, utmLink, dominantColor, privacy, method |
| Pin flags and engagement | isVideo, isStoryPin, isCarousel, isProductPin, isPromoted, isRepin, isUploaded, isNative, isPlayable, isOutOfStock, isStaleProduct, saveCount, repinCount, commentCount, shareCount, reactionCount, reactionCounts |
| Pin media, people, and commerce | image, images, video, videos, story, carousel, pinner, originalCreator, board, price, currency, priceText, standardPrice, discountPercent, availability, products, merchant, aggregateRating, annotations, hashtags, topics, shoppingFlags, detailsEnriched, enrichmentError |
| Shared source traceability and monitoring | sourceType, sourceValue, sourceUrl, sourceRank, searchTerm, searchType, country, language, scrapedAt, monitorStatus, monitorKey, previousScrapedAt, changedFields, previousSnapshot |
| Board | recordType, boardId, nodeId, url, name, description, privacy, category, layout, pinCount, sectionCount, sectionlessPinCount, followerCount, collaboratorCount, isCollaborative, followedByMe, collaboratedByMe, shouldShowCollaborators, allowHomefeedRecommendations, owner, coverImage, images, pinThumbnailUrls, eligiblePinTypeFilters, sourceType, sourceValue, sourceUrl, sourceRank, country, language, scrapedAt |
| Board section | recordType, sectionId, nodeId, title, slug, url, description, pinCount, boardId, boardName, boardUrl, owner, previewPins, sourceType, sourceValue, sourceUrl, sourceRank, country, language, scrapedAt |
| Profile | recordType, profileId, nodeId, username, url, fullName, firstName, lastName, about, websiteUrl, listedWebsiteUrl, domainUrl, imageSmallUrl, imageMediumUrl, imageLargeUrl, imageXLargeUrl, profileCoverUrl, followerCount, followingCount, explicitFollowingCount, interestFollowingCount, pinCount, nativePinCount, videoPinCount, storyPinCount, boardCount, groupBoardCount, pinsDoneCount, profileViews, profileReach, isVerifiedMerchant, isVerifiedIdentity, verifiedIdentityName, isPartner, partner, domainVerified, isPrimaryWebsiteVerified, isPrivateProfile, isAdsOnlyProfile, isDefaultImage, isInspirationalMerchant, isTastemaker, isBusinessAccount, hasCatalog, hasShoppingShowcase, hasShowcase, hasPublishedPins, indexed, instagramUsername, instagramUrl, createdAt, lastPinSaveTime, seoTitle, seoDescription, seoNoindexReason, recentPinImages, sourceType, sourceValue, sourceUrl, sourceRank, country, language, scrapedAt |
| Comment | recordType, commentId, nodeId, pinId, pinUrl, aggregatedPinId, type, text, createdAt, helpfulCount, likeCount, commentCount, reactionCount, reactionCounts, highlightedByPinOwner, isEdited, isTranslatable, markedHelpfulByMe, likedByMe, media, images, videos, tags, taggedUsers, user, sourceRank, country, language, scrapedAt |
| Tried It response | recordType, triedItId, nodeId, pinId, pinUrl, aggregatedPinId, type, details, doneAt, textTags, helpfulCount, likeCount, commentCount, likedByMe, markedHelpfulByMe, images, videos, imageSignatures, tags, taggedUsers, user, sourceRank, country, language, scrapedAt |
| Ideas topic | recordType, topicId, nodeId, url, slug, key, canonicalTerm, name, title, description, image, imageSize, imageSignature, imageSource, backgroundColor, followerCount, searchCount, isIdeasHub, isInterest, isKlpTerm, relatedBoards, relatedInterests, relatedQuestions, trendingSearches, pivots, seoBreadcrumbs, holidays, articles, feedUpdatedAt, topicUpdatedAt, pageMetadata, sourceType, sourceValue, sourceUrl, sourceRank, country, language, scrapedAt |
| Creator lead | recordType, leadId, username, url, fullName, followerCount, websiteUrl, domainUrl, instagramUsername, instagramUrl, avatarUrl, isVerifiedMerchant, isPrimaryWebsiteVerified, domainVerified, isPartner, isBusinessAccount, hasCatalog, hasShoppingShowcase, leadScore, sourceType, sourceValue, sourceUrl, country, language, scrapedAt |
| Analytics summary | recordType, totalPins, totalBoards, totalBoardSections, totalProfiles, totalComments, totalTriedIt, totalIdeaTopics, totalCreatorLeads, productPins, videoPins, storyPins, totalSaves, totalReactions, averageSaves, priceStats, currencyCounts, topDomains, topHashtags, topCreators, sourceTypeCounts, country, language, scrapedAt |
| Error | recordType, mode, input, inputType, url, errorType, errorMessage, httpStatus, country, language, retryable, scrapedAt |
Input parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
mode | string | Yes | search | search, auto, ideas, pinDetails, profile, board, comments, or relatedPins |
searchTerms | string[] | In search mode | ['modern kitchen'] | Up to 100 keywords or phrases, processed separately |
searchType | string | No | pins | pins, videos, boards, or profiles |
startUrls | string[] | In auto mode | Two example URLs | Up to 100 mixed Pin, profile, board, search, main Ideas, or Ideas topic URLs |
ideasUrls | string[] | In ideas mode | ['https://www.pinterest.com/ideas/'] | Up to 100 main Ideas or /ideas/topic-slug/numeric-id/ URLs |
pinIds | string[] | In pinDetails/comments/relatedPins | ['1020909809261285009'] | Up to 100 numeric Pin IDs or public Pin URLs |
profiles | string[] | In profile mode | ['pinterest'] | Up to 100 usernames, @usernames, or profile URLs |
boardUrls | string[] | In board mode | One example URL | Up to 100 public board URLs in /username/board-slug/ format |
maxResults | integer | No | 50 | 1-5,000 results per search term, profile feed, board feed, section, source pin, or Ideas feed |
maxItems | integer | No | 0 | Global filtered primary-record limit across all inputs; 0 means unlimited; derived lead and analytics rows are additional |
maxConcurrency | integer | No | 5 | 1-20 independent inputs and pin-detail enrichments processed concurrently |
country | string | No | US | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country used by the managed residential proxy |
language | string | No | en | Language or locale such as en, de, pt-BR, or zh-CN |
includePinDetails | boolean | No | false | Enrich feed pins with detailed media, commerce, creator, and annotation data |
includeComments | boolean | No | false | Also return comments in pinDetails mode |
maxComments | integer | No | 100 | 1-5,000 comment and Tried It rows per pin |
includePins | boolean | No | true | Include created profile pins or sectionless board pins |
includeBoards | boolean | No | true | Include boards owned by each requested profile |
includeSections | boolean | No | true | Include detailed section records for requested boards |
includeSectionPins | boolean | No | false | Paginate pins inside every board section |
includeTopicMetadata | boolean | No | true | Add a complete ideaTopic row for every Ideas topic URL |
includeCreatorLeads | boolean | No | false | Add deduplicated public creator-lead rows with a 0-100 lead score |
includeAnalytics | boolean | No | false | Add one complete analytics row for the emitted dataset |
deduplicate | boolean | No | true | Keep one row per entity across overlapping inputs |
minSaves | number | No | - | Minimum Pin saves |
minFollowers | number | No | - | Minimum creator, profile, lead, or board followers |
domainFilter | string | No | - | Comma-separated allowed destination domains; matching includes subdomains |
createdAfter | ISO date/time | No | - | Keep Pins created on or after this value |
createdBefore | ISO date/time | No | - | Keep Pins created on or before this value |
pinType | string | No | all | all, image, video, product, or story |
minPrice | number | No | - | Minimum parsed Pin product price |
maxPrice | number | No | - | Maximum parsed Pin product price |
currency | string | No | - | Required product currency code, such as USD |
verifiedMerchantsOnly | boolean | No | false | Keep only Pins and creator records tied to verified merchants |
monitorMode | string | No | off | off, newPins, or engagementChanges |
monitorKey | string | When monitoring | pinterest-monitor | Stable state identity shared by recurring runs of the same monitor |
Use cases
Creative and content research
Search a topic, collect the main Ideas discovery feed or a specific Ideas category, compare descriptions and media formats, and use related-pin mode to expand from promising examples into adjacent visual themes.
Product and merchant intelligence
Enable detail enrichment to collect product offers, price, currency, stock state, merchant identity, destination links, ratings, shopping flags, and image or video assets from public product pins.
Creator and brand analysis
Collect profile identity, verification flags, follower and content counts, recent images, created pins, and owned boards for repeatable comparisons across public accounts. Enable includeCreatorLeads for a deduplicated prospect table with public website, Instagram, verification, audience, and lead-score fields.
Audience feedback research
Collect comments, reactions, attached media, helpful counts, and Tried It responses to understand how people respond to a public Pin or idea.
Scheduled monitoring
Set monitorMode and a stable monitorKey, then use Apify schedules to rerun the same input. The first run emits known Pins; later runs can emit only newly discovered Pins or new Pins plus engagement and commerce changes. Webhooks can send the compact change dataset into a database, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, Airbyte, Slack, or a data warehouse.
Performance and cost
This Actor is prepared for pay per event. The current prices are shown on the Actor's Pricing tab; measured runtime figures depend on selected feeds, enrichment options, Pinterest response times, and Apify proxy usage.
| Event | What one event represents |
|---|---|
pin-result | One non-enriched Pin from search, Ideas, profile, board, section, or related Pins |
pin-detail | One Pin returned from Pin details or successfully enriched with detailed data |
profile-result | One public profile record |
board-result | One board or board-section record |
comment-result | One public Comment or Tried It response |
idea-topic | One complete Ideas topic metadata record |
creator-lead | One deduplicated creator-lead record |
analytics-summary | One run-level analytics summary row |
Explicit error rows are stored without a custom paid event. includePinDetails, includeComments, includeSectionPins, creator leads, analytics, large batches, and high limits can add requests or chargeable output. maxConcurrency controls 1-20 independent inputs and detail enrichments; pagination remains bounded and stops at Pinterest's terminal cursor.
API usage
The public Actor owner is not assigned yet. Replace YOUR_USERNAME after publication:
The default dataset can be consumed through the Apify API or connected to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, Airbyte, webhooks, cloud storage, or a data warehouse.
Best for / not for
Best for: public Pinterest discovery, creative research, creator and brand analysis, product-pin monitoring, collection analysis, public audience feedback, and scheduled exports.
Not for: private boards or profiles, authenticated home feeds, Pinterest Trends, account actions, publishing pins, direct binary media downloads, or real-time event streaming.
Limits and good to know
- Choose one specialized mode, or use
autoto mix recognized public Pinterest URL types in one run. Up to 100 primary inputs are accepted. maxResultsis per term or requested feed,maxCommentsis per Pin, andmaxItemsis the global filtered primary-row limit across all inputs.- Pinterest controls which public records, localized text, metrics, cursors, media variants, comments, and product fields are available.
/ideas/and/ideas/topic/id/are separate feed implementations: the first returns discovery Pins, while a topic can also return anideaTopicmetadata row.- The Actor never embeds dump cookies or account credentials. For the protected main Ideas stream it may establish a fresh anonymous web session and echo that session's short-lived anti-forgery token; it does not access private content.
- All Pinterest traffic uses Apify Residential Proxy automatically. There is no direct-traffic fallback and no proxy input to configure.
- A sticky proxy session is used for each logical input. Retryable failures use exponential backoff and rotate the session before retrying.
- Pin enrichment failures preserve the original feed row and populate
enrichmentError. - All 219 declared Dataset fields are exposed in the single Results view. A failed primary input creates an
errorrow in that same view; other batch inputs continue. The run fails when every operation ends in a non-terminal infrastructure, network, API, or parsing failure. - Empty source feeds return zero content rows. Missing source values are represented with stable
null,false, empty-object, or empty-array values.
Frequently asked questions
What input should I provide?
Use search keywords in search, numeric IDs or /pin/ID/ URLs for pin-based modes, usernames or profile URLs for profile, public /username/board-slug/ URLs for board, /ideas/ or /ideas/topic/id/ URLs for ideas, or combine all supported URL types in auto.
How many results can I extract?
The Actor accepts 1-5,000 for maxResults and maxComments, plus a global maxItems of 0-100,000 primary records. The actual number can be lower when filters remove rows or Pinterest ends pagination, returns fewer matches, removes content, or does not expose a feed publicly.
Why are some fields empty?
Pinterest record types differ. A normal image Pin has no video or shopping offer, some profiles do not publish websites, and some metrics are not exposed to unauthenticated visitors. The Actor keeps the documented top-level shape and uses empty normalized values.
Can I process multiple inputs?
Yes. Supply up to 100 entries in a mode-specific array, or use auto for mixed URLs. maxResults applies independently to each source and maxItems caps the filtered primary output across the complete run.
Can I schedule recurring runs?
Yes. Use Apify schedules for recurring jobs and webhooks to notify another system when a run completes.
Do I need a Pinterest account, API key, cookies, or proxy?
No Pinterest account, API key, or authentication cookie is required. The Actor creates and uses Apify Residential Proxy internally; users do not provide a proxy field.
Responsible use
This Actor extracts publicly available Pinterest information. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws, privacy regulations, contractual obligations, and Pinterest's terms. Avoid collecting personal data without a lawful purpose.
Pinterest is a trademark of Pinterest, Inc. This Actor is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Pinterest.
Support
If you encounter a problem, create an issue in the Actor's Issues tab. Include the run ID, the relevant non-sensitive input, the mode used, and what you expected to receive. Do not post account credentials, tokens, or private data.
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