Pinterest Scraper · Pins, Boards & Profiles with Save Counts

Pinterest scraper for content and product research: pins from boards, profiles, pin URLs and keyword search as flat, CSV-ready rows — with the save count Pinterest shows on the pin (boards, profiles, pin URLs), saves per day, repins, comments, image, outbound link and shop domain. No login, no Pinterest account, no cookies, no residential proxy.

What does Pinterest Scraper do?

You give it any mix of search terms, board URLs, profile names and pin URLs. It returns one row per pin with saves, savesPerDay, repinCount, reactions, comments, imageUrl, link, domain, board, pinner, createdAt and more (full field list below). Optionally it adds one top-shops row per keyword: which domains (shops, blogs) the pins for that keyword lead to.

Who is it for?

• Pinterest marketers and content creators — find the pins on a board or profile that are taking off right now (sortBy: savesPerDay), not just the oldest ones.
• Etsy / Shopify / print-on-demand sellers — see which shops and domains Pinterest sends people to for a niche, and which product pins collect saves.
• Agencies and analysts — monitor competitor boards and profiles on a schedule, export to Sheets, Excel, Airtable or via API.

Why use this Pinterest scraper?

• The real save count for boards, profiles and pin URLs. Board and profile feeds carry the number shown on the pin; for pin URLs the Actor reads the pin's own data. Search results: currently no save counts. Since October 2026 Pinterest returns search hits with encrypted pin IDs (e1_…) for which it no longer hands out pin data to logged-out visitors, so saves, savesPerDay and often link/domain are null for search hits (measured 21 Oct 2026: 0 of 60 search pins with saves, 23 of 60 with a domain; boards 5 of 5 with saves). We do not work around this.
• Saves are not repins. Pinterest has two different counters. repin_count is often a small fraction of the saves: on pin 99360735500167749 it is 4,835 against 101,743 saves (measured 24 Sep 2026). You get both, in separate columns, so you never rank pins by the wrong number.
• Find the winners, not just the pins. savesPerDay (saves ÷ days since the pin was created) shows what is taking off right now instead of what is merely old. Sort each source by saves, savesPerDay or newest, or keep only pins above minSaves or newer than sinceDate.
• Flat rows. One level, no nested JSON: drops straight into Sheets, Excel or Airtable.
• You only pay for pins you get. Filtered pins, ads (promoted pins), duplicates across sources and inputs that fail are never charged. maxPins is a hard cap on the run and therefore on the bill. A source that returns nothing says why in the run summary instead of coming back empty.
• No residential proxy needed. Pinterest answered every request from Apify's own IPs (341 of 341 in the test run below), so runs stay cheap and nothing is billed to you as proxy traffic.

Which input should I use?

You want	Use	Save counts?
The best pins of one board	boardUrls + sortBy: "savesPerDay" or "saves"	✅ yes
Everything a creator or brand pins	profileUrls (name or URL)	✅ yes
Exact numbers for pins you already know	pinUrls	✅ yes
Pins and shops for a keyword or niche	searchTerms (+ domainSummary: true)	❌ not at the moment (see above)

Quick start

1. Paste one or more board URLs, e.g. https://www.pinterest.com/marthastewart/american-made/.
2. Optional: add a keyword under Search terms and switch on Top shops per keyword.
3. Set Max pins (the hard cap on the bill) and click Start.
4. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel or JSON, or connect it to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n.

Input example

{
    "searchTerms": ["minimalist desk setup", "vegan meal prep"],
    "boardUrls": ["https://www.pinterest.com/marthastewart/american-made/"],
    "profileUrls": ["bhg"],
    "pinUrls": ["https://www.pinterest.com/pin/99360735500167749/"],
    "maxPinsPerSource": 200,
    "maxPins": 1000,
    "minSaves": 50,
    "sinceDate": "2026-01-01",
    "sortBy": "savesPerDay"
}

Any country domain works (de.pinterest.com, pinterest.co.uk, ...), and so do pin.it short links.

minSaves and sorting by saves/savesPerDay need save counts: they work for board, profile and pin-URL pins. Search hits currently have no save count, so minSaves filters every search hit out (they are not charged) — leave minSaves empty for search terms.

Output example

{
    "pinId": "99360735500167749",
    "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/99360735500167749/",
    "title": "Next stop: Pinterest!",
    "description": "Love my Pinterest t-shirt!",
    "imageUrl": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a7/66/56/a76656e966b1958f568d63c3f1c05aec.jpg",
    "imageWidth": 640,
    "imageHeight": 478,
    "link": "http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/6851755809/",
    "domain": "flickr.com",
    "saves": 101743,
    "savesPerDay": 19.94,
    "repinCount": 4835,
    "reactions": 4,
    "comments": 35,
    "shares": 23,
    "isVideo": false,
    "videoUrl": null,
    "isPromoted": false,
    "board": "Adventures at Pinterest",
    "boardUrl": "https://www.pinterest.com/kentbrew/adventures-at-pinterest/",
    "pinner": "kentbrew",
    "pinnerName": "Kent Brewster",
    "pinnerFollowers": 4589,
    "createdAt": "2012-10-04T21:50:37.000Z",
    "ageDays": 5102.1,
    "hashtags": [],
    "altText": null,
    "dominantColor": "#e77b60",
    "sourceType": "pin",
    "source": "pinUrls",
    "rank": 1,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-24T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Field	Meaning
saves	The save count Pinterest shows on the pin, at scrape time
savesPerDay	saves ÷ age in days (minimum 1 day), 2 decimals
repinCount	Pinterest's separate repin counter, not the same as saves
reactions, comments, shares	As Pinterest reports them (shares only where Pinterest hands it out)
link, domain	Where the pin leads; empty for pins uploaded without a link
pinnerFollowers	Follower count of the account that saved the pin, where Pinterest includes it
createdAt, ageDays	ISO 8601 UTC; age at scrape time
sourceType, source, rank	How the pin was found (search, board, profile, pin) and its position there

The run summary (SUMMARY in the key-value store) lists per source: pins written, fetched, where the save counts came from, filtered out by reason, pages, why paging stopped, and HTTP status counts for the whole run.

Top shops per keyword

Set "domainSummary": true and every search term gets one extra row (type: "domainSummary"): the outbound domains of the pins written for that term, with total saves, average saves per day and number of pins, sorted by saves — or, while Pinterest returns no save counts for search hits (see above), by number of pins. It answers "which shops and blogs win Pinterest for boho wedding?" in one row. Pins without a link are not counted (pinsWithoutDomain). The extra row is not charged and does not count toward maxPins. Boards, profiles and pin URLs get no summary row.

Real row, 21 Oct 2026, "boho wedding", 30 pins (first 3 of 16 domains). As explained above, Pinterest currently returns no save counts for search hits, so saves is null and the domains are ranked by number of pins (the row says so in note); if Pinterest hands out save counts for search again, they are summed and used for the ranking.

{
  "type": "domainSummary",
  "sourceType": "search",
  "source": "boho wedding",
  "pinsCounted": 17,
  "pinsWithoutDomain": 13,
  "domainsFound": 16,
  "domains": [
    {
      "domain": "yeahweddings.com",
      "saves": null,
      "avgSavesPerDay": null,
      "pins": 2,
      "pinsWithSaves": 0,
      "topPinUrl": null
    },
    {
      "domain": "amazon.co.uk",
      "saves": null,
      "avgSavesPerDay": null,
      "pins": 1,
      "pinsWithSaves": 0,
      "topPinUrl": null
    },
    {
      "domain": "confettiandroses.com",
      "saves": null,
      "avgSavesPerDay": null,
      "pins": 1,
      "pinsWithSaves": 0,
      "topPinUrl": null
    }
  ],
  "note": "No save counts were available for these pins (Pinterest did not return them); domains are ranked by number of pins."
}

How much does it cost to scrape Pinterest?

Pay per event — you pay per pin written to the dataset, plus a tiny start fee per run:

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold and up
Pin written to the dataset	$0.002	$0.0018	$0.0016	$0.0014
Actor start (per GB of memory, once per run)	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005

Examples on the Free plan: 100 pins = $0.20, 1,000 pins = $2.00, plus the start fee. Filtered pins, promoted pins, duplicates, the top-shops row and sources that return nothing are never charged. maxPins caps every run.

Use it via API

Run the Actor and get the pins back in one call (replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN>):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/thequietstack~pinterest-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"boardUrls": ["https://www.pinterest.com/marthastewart/american-made/"], "maxPins": 50, "sortBy": "savesPerDay"}'

The same works from Python (apify-client), JavaScript, Make, Zapier, n8n, or as a scheduled task: run it daily with sinceDate to collect only new pins from a board.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Pinterest? The Actor only reads what Pinterest shows to any logged-out visitor: public pins, boards and profiles. It does not log in and collects no private data. Whether and how you may use the data (copyright of images, personal data of pinners under GDPR) depends on your use case and country — check that before you republish anything.

Why do search results have no save counts? Pinterest changed how it serves search results to logged-out visitors in October 2026 (encrypted pin IDs). Board, profile and pin-URL pins still carry saves. If Pinterest hands them out again, the Actor fills them in without any change on your side.

Do I need a proxy or a Pinterest account? No. The default runs without proxy and without login.

Can I monitor a board for new pins? Yes: schedule the Actor (daily or weekly) with the board URL and sinceDate, or sort by newest and keep a small maxPinsPerSource.

How is this different from the official Pinterest API? The official Pinterest API needs a developer app and an account, and is built mainly for managing your own account, pins and ads. This Actor reads the public pages of any board or profile, with no app review and no login.

Tested

Run on the Apify platform on 24 Sep 2026 (before Pinterest's search change): one keyword, one board, one profile, 300 pins each requested. 893 pins written, 341 requests, all HTTP 200, no proxy. Three pins checked by hand against their pin pages: saves, repins, board and pinner matched exactly.

Honest limits

• Only what Pinterest shows logged out: public pins, boards and profiles. Secret boards, private profiles and comment texts are not included.
• Search hits: no save counts at the moment (encrypted pin IDs since Oct 2026, see above). With exactSaves on, the Actor still tries the pin data once per search hit; Pinterest answers 404, the attempt is counted in SUMMARY (savesUnavailable) and nothing is charged extra. Turn exactSaves off to skip these requests. Board, profile and pin-URL pins carry saves.
• A board can return a few pins less than its pin counter says (293 of 299 on the test board): Pinterest counts pins it no longer serves.
• Some pins have no title; title is empty then rather than made up.
• sortBy orders the pins collected per source; it does not make Pinterest return a different set.
• Counts are a snapshot at scrape time.

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