Pinterest Scraper — Profiles, Boards, Search & Related Pins (No Login)

Harvest public Pinterest data without any login. One engine, four modes: scrape profiles (followers, monthly views, pin/board counts, bio), pull every pin from a board, run a keyword search, or fan out from a seed pin into Pinterest's visual-similarity related feed.

It works by opening a real Chromium browser over an Apify residential proxy and intercepting Pinterest's own internal /resource/ API responses. No account, no cookies you supply.

Modes

Mode	Input field	What it returns	Charged event
Profile	usernames / username	One profile record per username (optionally with recent pins)	profile-scraped (per profile)
Board	boardUrls	Every pin in the board	pin-scraped (per pin)
Search	searchQueries	Pins matching each keyword query	pin-scraped (per pin)
Related	seedPins	Pinterest's "More like this" feed for each seed pin	pin-scraped (per pin)

You can mix modes in a single run — fill any combination of the four input fields and each target is processed independently.

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Profile mode

Scrape one or more public profiles. Set includePins: true to also collect each profile's most recent pins.

Input

{
  "usernames": ["nasa", "natgeo"],
  "includePins": true,
  "maxPins": 50
}

username is a convenience field for a single profile and is merged into the usernames list. Full profile URLs are accepted in place of bare usernames.

Output (one record per profile, _mode: "profile")

{
  "_mode": "profile",
  "username": "nasa",
  "full_name": "NASA",
  "about": "Explore the universe and discover our home planet.",
  "followers": 1200000,
  "following": 35,
  "pin_count": 4200,
  "board_count": 60,
  "monthly_views": 8500000,
  "is_verified": true,
  "profile_pic_url": "https://i.pinimg.com/...jpg",
  "website_url": "https://www.nasa.gov",
  "profile_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/nasa/",
  "source": "xhr-intercept",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-29T10:00:00.000Z",
  "recent_pins": [ /* pin objects — only present when includePins is true */ ]
}

source records how the record was produced (xhr-intercept, dom-text, widgets-api, optionally +widgets-pins). Some fields can be null when a fallback path was used (for example the widgets API does not return pin_count, board_count, or monthly_views).

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Board mode

Pull every pin from a curated board. Best source for brand-curated, head-led creative.

Input

{
  "boardUrls": [
    "https://www.pinterest.com/nasa/galaxies/",
    "natgeo/wildlife"
  ],
  "maxItems": 40
}

Both full board URLs and the username/board-slug shorthand are accepted.

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Search mode

Keyword search across all public pins. Use specific brand/collection vocabulary — generic terms return noise.

Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["Cartier Trinity", "Tiffany Lock"],
  "maxItems": 40
}

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Related mode

For each seed pin, harvest Pinterest's visual-similarity "More like this" feed. Stays inside the seed's aesthetic neighbourhood, escaping keyword pollution.

Input

{
  "seedPins": [
    "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/12345678901234567/",
    "98765432109876543"
  ],
  "maxItems": 40
}

Both pin URLs and raw pin ids are accepted.

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Pin output shape

Board, Search, and Related modes (and recent_pins in Profile mode) emit pin records. Each pin in the dataset carries its mode and source target:

{
  "_mode": "board",
  "_source": "https://www.pinterest.com/nasa/galaxies/",
  "pin_id": "12345678901234567",
  "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/12345678901234567/",
  "title": "Spiral galaxy",
  "description": "A barred spiral galaxy ...",
  "image_url": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/...jpg",
  "save_count": 4200,
  "comment_count": 18,
  "is_video": false,
  "video_url": null,
  "board": "Galaxies",
  "board_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/nasa/galaxies/",
  "pinner": "NASA",
  "pinner_username": "nasa",
  "link": "https://www.nasa.gov/...",
  "domain": "nasa.gov",
  "dominant_color": "#1a2b3c",
  "timestamp": "2026-01-15T12:00:00.000Z",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-29T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Some fields may be null depending on what Pinterest returns. If pins are recovered via the DOM fallback (when the XHR intercept yields nothing), save_count, comment_count, and timestamp will be null.

Run summary

The final dataset item is a run summary:

{
  "_type": "summary",
  "requested": 4,
  "by_mode": { "profile": 2, "board": 1, "search": 1 },
  "targets_scraped": 4,
  "pins_delivered": 80,
  "blocked": 0,
  "not_found": 0,
  "charged_for": 55,
  "free_results_used": 25,
  "free_remaining": 0,
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-29T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Limits

• maxPins — recent pins per profile (Profile mode only). Default 50, max 200.
• maxItems — pins per board / seed / query. Default 40, max 250.
• Up to 500 targets per run across all modes combined.

Pricing

Pay-Per-Event. The first 25 results per Apify account are free (lifetime, shared across both event types):

• Profile mode — charged per profile successfully delivered (profile-scraped).
• Board / Search / Related modes — charged per pin successfully delivered (pin-scraped).

Blocked and not-found targets are never charged.

Notes

• Works on any public Pinterest profile, board, search, or pin without login.
• Uses a real Chromium browser with a residential proxy (required for Pinterest) to intercept Pinterest's own API calls.
• Profile mode falls back to the public widgets API for basic data if the browser tier is blocked (reduced field coverage).
• Image URLs are public i.pinimg.com CDN links you can download directly over plain HTTP.

Use in Claude, ChatGPT & any MCP agent

This actor is also a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server tool — call it directly from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP-compatible AI agent. The agent only pays for results delivered (same pay-per-result model).

• Per-actor MCP endpoint: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/pinterest-profile-scraper
• Full Mine Works MCP server (all tools): https://the-mine-works-mcp.hatchable.site/api/mcp

// Call this actor as a tool via apify-client (Node)
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('themineworks/pinterest-profile-scraper').call({ /* input from the table above */ });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);