Unofficial Pinterest API implemented in python 3 that can do all Pinterest tasks like comment, pin, repin, follow, unfollow, and more.

It is implemented by directly calling the pinterest servers, mimicking an actual browser, so you don't need pinterest API key.

If you see any issues, or find bugs feel free to report them here on the github repo.

Get started with pinterest automation

Automated posting to Pinterest (in Russian)

pip install py3-pinterest

pinterest = Pinterest(email='your email goes here', password='password goes here', username='look in pinterest url', cred_root='cred root dir')

cred_root is the dir (automatically created if missing) that will store some cookies and sessions, so you don't need to login before each request. Make sure you specify a path with read/write permissions.

Proxies example:

proxies = {"http":"http://username:password@proxy_ip:proxy_port"}
Pinterest(email='emai', password='pass', username='name', cred_root='cred_root', proxies=proxies)

Login will store auth cookies for later use. These cookies are usually valid for ~15 days, then you will start getting 403 and 401 errors, which means you need to call login again.

Login is required to permit actions to the Pinterest servers. Login will store auth cookies for later use. These cookies are usually valid for ~15 days, then you will start getting 403 and 401 errors, which means you need to call login again.

pinterest.login()

pinterest.logout()

You can load profile for currently logged in user or any user specified by username.

user_profile = pinterest.get_user_overview()

boards = pinterest.boards(username='username')

pins = pinterest.board_feed(board_id=board_id)

If username is left blank, current logged in user will be used.

pinterest.delete_pin(pin_id='pin_id')

pinterest.repin(board_id='board_id', pin_id='pin_id')

All functions return the post/get data from the request. If you dig a little deeper by going myrequest.content you get the actual HTML response, which can then be turned into a dict by using JSON.

Example:

import json

pin_response = upload_pin(board_id='',
             image_path='test.png',
             description='TESTING PIN FUNCTIONALITY WITH ID FETCHING',
             title='Foobar Barfood',
             section_id=None,
             link='')

response_data = json.loads(pin_response.content)

Some helpful notes on the response: Everything is stored inside the "resource_response" key. You can use that and grab all sorts of data like so:

# This is how you would access this information when creating a pin

id = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["id"]
board_id = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["board"]["id"]
section_id = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["section"]["id"]
pinner_username = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["pinner"]["username"]
pinner_id = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["pinner"]["id"]

# If you wanted to access this information in a different circumstance,
# keep in mind that whatever you are creating should be the first level under "data"
# I.e, I created a board, and I want to get the board ID. It would now be:

board_id = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["id"]

A pinterest feature they use to pin from websites

pinterest.get_pinnable_images(url='https://www.tumblr.com/search/food')

Pin image by web url:

pinterest.pin(board_id=board_id, image_url=image_url, description=description, title=title)

Pin image from local file:

pinterest.upload_pin(board_id=board_id, section_id=section_id, image_file=image_path, description=description, title=title, link=link)

home_feed_batch = pinterest.home_feed()

rec_batch = pinterest.board_recommendations(board_id=board_id)

pinterest.load_pin(pin_id='pin_id')

pinterest.create_board_section(board_id=board_id, section_name=section_name) pinterest.delete_board_section(section_id=section_id) pinterest.get_board_sections(board_id=board_id)

You can also pin and repin to sections.

pinterest.follow_user(user_id='target_user_id', username='target_username')

Follow limit is 300 per day, after that they might place you on a watch list

pinterest.unfollow_user(user_id='target_user_id', username='target_username')

Unfollow limit is 350 per day, after that they might place you on a watch list

following_batch = pinterest.get_following(username='some_user')

If username is not provided current user will be used

followers_batch=pinterest.get_user_followers(username='some_user')

If username is not provided current user will be used

pinterest.follow_board(board_id=board_id)

pinterest.unfollow_board(board_id=board_id)

search_batch = pinterest.search(scope='boards', query='food')

Current pinterest scopes are: pins, buyable_pins, my_pins, videos, boards

  pin_data = pinterest.load_pin(pin_id='pin_id')
  search_batch = pinterest.visual_search(pin_data, x=10, y=50, w=100, h=100)

pinterest.invite(board_id=board_id, user_id=target_user_id)

pinterest.delete_invite(board_id=board_id, invited_user_id=target_user_id)

invites_batch = pinterest.get_board_invites(board_id=board_id)

pinterest.comment(pin_id=pin_id, text=comment_text)

pinterest.delete_comment(pin_id=pin_id, comment_id=comment_id)

pinterest.get_comments(pin_id='pin_id')

pinterest.send_message(conversation_id=conversation_id, pin_id="(pin_id)", message="hey")

pinterest.type_ahead(term='apple')