Pinterest Explorer 📌

# 💫 Welcome To Pinterest Explorer ## About Pinterest.com Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information (specifically "ideas")[6] on the internet using images, and on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos,[7] in the form of pinboards.[8] The site was created by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp, and had 450 million global monthly active users as of December 2022.[5] It is operated by Pinterest, Inc., based in San Francisco. ## 📌 About This Actor Use this Actor to scrape data from Pinterest.com, including profile, pins, boards, sections, search for pins visual similarity, etc. ### 🍿 Features : - ⭐ Scrape Profile, Pins, Boards, Section - ⭐ Scrape using URL - ⭐ Search for visual similarity (using URL) - ⭐ Sort images by similarity (coming soon) - ⭐ Generate Slide-Show - ⭐ Minimal input - ⭐ Fast like The Flash ## 📌 Input Parameters | Parameter | Type | Description | |-|-|-| | query| string array | See below for possible query values | | limit | integer | Number of results (per query) | | gallery | boolean | Generate HTML gallery/viewer | ## 📌 HTTP Cookies Some function may require a cookie value from your HTTP session. For example: products search, etc (see below). You may want to include additional HTTP cookie, for example your Login Cookie named _pinterest_sess (this is just example, use at your own risk!). - Login to Pinterest.com, and get cookie value named: _pinterest_sess from domain: https://www.pinterest.com - Open ☢️ Advanced Options then copy paste: ## 📌 Advanced Usage ### 🍿 Pinterest Query Language (PQL) html [ <COMMAND:> | # | @ ] [ <NAME> | <ID> | <KEYWORD> | <URL> ] [ /<SECTION> ] ### 🍿 Possible QUERY values | Format | Example | Description | |-|-|-| |<KEYWORDS> | wood furniture |Search Anything| |KEYWORDS |square pants|Search pins| |videos:<KEYWORDS> |videos:wooden chairs|Search videos| |boards:<KEYWORDS> |boards:yellow cats |Search boards| |users:<KEYWORDS> |users:apify|Search users| |stories:<KEYWORDS> |stories:garden|Search stories | |products:<KEYWORDS> |products:computer|Search products
(cookie required)| |#<TOPIC>| #art or #961238559656 |Idea (topic/interest)| |topic:<TOPIC>| topic:961238559656 | | |/info| #art/info|Topic info and stats| |/pins| #art/pins|Topic related pins| |/videos| #art/videos|Topic related videos| |<PIN> | 1234567890 | Pin (post) Data| |/info|1234567890/info|Pin info and stats| |/related|1234567890/related|Related pins| |/comments|1234567890/comments|Pin comments| |/visual|1234567890/visual|Pin visual search| |/products|1234567890/products|Pin related products
(cookie required)| |@<USER> | @microsoft | User Data| |/info | @microsoft/info|User info| |/followers|@microsoft/followers|User followers| |/following|@microsoft/following|User following| |/pins|@microsoft/pins|User pins| |/boards|@walmart/boards|User boards| |/created|@walmart/created|User created pins| |/products|@amazon/products|User (seller) products| |@<USER>:<BOARD>|@microsoft:travel|Board Data |board:<BOARD_ID>|board:120013001|Board Data (by board ID) |/info|board:120013001/info|Board info| |/sections|board:120013001/sections|Board section (sub-folders)| |/pins|board:120013001/pins|Board pins| |/members|board:120013001/members|Board members (collaborators)| |/followers|board:120013001/followers|Board followers| |/ideas| board:120013001/ideas | More pins (ideas) |@<USER>:BOARD:SECTION|@microsoft:travel:india| Sub-board Data |section:<SECTION_ID>|section:310002100| Sub-board (by section ID) |/info|section:310002100/info|Sub-board info| |/pins|section:310002100/pins|Sub-board pins| |https:<URL> | https://*.pinterest.com/... |Start URL| | /search/<TYPE>/?q=KEYWORD| | Search for pins specific type | | /ideas/<TOPIC>/<TOPIC_ID> | |Search specific topic/interest | /pin/<PIN>| https://id.pinterest.com/pin/1234567890 | User pin related | | /pin/<PIN>/visual-search| |User pin visual search | | /<USER>| https://id.pinterest.com/microsoft | User info | | /<USER>/pins| | User pins | | /<USER>/_created | |User created pins | | /<USER>/_saved | |User boards | | /<USER>/<BOARD> | |Board pins | | /<USER>/<BOARD>/<SECTION> | | Board sub-folder pins | ## 📌 Tutorial ### 🍿 Example #1: Searching Searching for pins yaml { "query": ["Window and Furniture"] } Searching for videos only yaml { "query": ["vidoes:Cat House"] } Searching for products yaml { "query": ["products:Square Pants"] } ### 🍿 Example #2: User Profile User/profile info and stats yaml { "query": ["@microsoft/info"] } User boards list yaml { "query": ["@microsoft/boards"] } User products list yaml { "query": ["@amazon/products"] } ### 🍿 Example #3: Number of Results Use LIMIT to increase or limit number of results (per-query) yaml { "query": ["@microsoft/pins"], "limit": 100 } ### 🍿 Example #4: Board and Section Pins User Board pins yaml { "query": ["@microsoft:travel/pins"], "limit": 100 } User Board may have sub-boards (sections) yaml { "query": ["@microsoft:travel:india/pins"], "limit": 100 } For Board more detail info, use query board:<BOARD_ID>
Use query @USER/boards to get list of user boards and its ID yaml { "query": ["board:12300100002/info"] } # board info { "query": ["board:12300100002/pins"], "limit": 100 } # board pins Board sub-folders list yaml { "query": ["board:12300100002/sections"], "limit": 100 } ### 🍿 Example #5: Pin Info Pin info and statistics yaml { "query": ["1234567890/info"] } Pin related pins yaml { "query": ["1234567890/related"], "limit": 50 } Pin comments yaml { "query": ["1234567890/comments"], "limit": 50 } ### 🍿 Example #6: URL As last resort, you can copy and paste an URL yaml { "query": ["https://id.pinterest.com/microsoft/"] } ### 🍿 Example #7: Multiple Queries Multiple user info yaml { "query": [ "@google/info", "@walmart/info", "@apify/info" ] } Multiple user pins yaml { "query": [ "@amazon/products", "@walmart/products", "@nike/products", "@apify/pins", "videos:yellow cat" ], "limit": 10 # 10 results per-query } Different QUERY may have different attributes set.
You can combine different type of QUERY in a single request but not recommended. yaml { "query": [ "@google/info", "120000199922/info", "#art/info" ] } ## 📌 Output Samples ### 🍿 Sample #1: JSON Output yaml { "board": { "name": "Lưu nhanh", "url": "/bch7946/_quick_saves/" }, "created_at": "Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:23:53 +0000", "domain": "tracking.feedpress.it", "grid_title": "Microsoft Ads Introduces Cookie-Based Experiment Feature", "id": "1066438386741918409", "image_crop": { "max_y": 1 }, "image_signature": "1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c", "images": { "170x": { "height": 123, "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/236x/1c/c0/03/1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c.jpg", "width": 236 }, "236x": { "height": 123, "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/236x/1c/c0/03/1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c.jpg", "width": 236 }, "474x": { "height": 248, "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/474x/1c/c0/03/1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c.jpg", "width": 474 }, "736x": { "height": 386, "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1c/c0/03/1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c.jpg", "width": 736 }, "orig": { "height": 840, "url": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1c/c0/03/1cc0030a7989dbcfe3b6b58d0f06f58c.png", "width": 1600 } }, "is_uploaded": true, "link": "http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/13962/13489926", "pinner": { "full_name": "Trâm Bích", "id": "1066438524171071800", "image_large_url": "https://s.pinimg.com/images/user/default_140.png", "image_medium_url": "https://s.pinimg.com/images/user/default_75.png", "image_small_url": "https://s.pinimg.com/images/user/default_30.png", "username": "bch7946" }, "reaction_counts": { "1": 1 }, "rich_summary": { "display_description": "Microsoft Ads added an additional feature to the Experiment functionality launched last July: cookie-based audience specifications.", "display_name": "Microsoft Ads Introduces Cookie-Based Experiment Feature", "favicon_images": { "orig": "https://i.pinimg.com/favicons/e4793202be714776e9ec57cd8452dea6839302dcaf946ff7c8a69e07.png?9292791bfd447d72ea6e3c05a904eb89" }, "favicon_link": "https://i.pinimg.com/favicons/e4793202be714776e9ec57cd8452dea6839302dcaf946ff7c8a69e07.png?9292791bfd447d72ea6e3c05a904eb89", "id": "0c15d83843dccc4039dbbb3091133efd", "site_name": "Search Engine Journal", "type": "richpingriddata", "type_name": "article", "url": "http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/13962/13489926" }, "type": "pin" } ### Sample #2: Simple HTML Gallery ## 📌 Support - ⚡️ Congratulation! you have mastered "How to scrape Pinterest using APIFY Pinterest Explorer" - ⚡️ Feel free to reach out to the developer for any issues or suggestions for improvement.