Pinterest API - Search, Pins, Boards, Profiles

Pinterest via Scavio

Search Pinterest pins, pull one pin in full, read a user's profile and boards, page through a board's pins, and look up how many times external URLs have been saved. All endpoints return structured JSON.

When to trigger

Use this skill when the user asks to:

• Search Pinterest pins by keyword, with the destination link and video URL for video pins
• Pull one pin in full - save/share/comment counts, reactions, destination-page metadata, dominant color, board and pinner
• Read a user's public profile: bio, website, follower/following, pin and board counts
• List all of a user's public boards, or page through the pins inside one board
• Find how many times a given external URL has been saved to Pinterest (up to 10 URLs at once)
• Do visual-content research, trend spotting, or creator/influencer analysis on Pinterest

Setup

Get a free API key at scavio.dev (50 free credits to get started, no card required):

export SCAVIO_API_KEY=sk_live_your_key

Every request is a POST with a JSON body and:

Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY

Endpoints

Base URL: https://api.scavio.dev.

Pagination

search, user/boards and board are cursor-paginated. Omit cursor for the first page; feed the response's cursor back to get the next page. When the response's cursor is null the feed is exhausted.

Parameters

Search (/search)

Pin (/pin)

Profile (/profile) and User Boards (/user/boards)

Board (/board)

URL Stats (/url-stats)

Examples

import requests

BASE = "https://api.scavio.dev"
# Your key from https://scavio.dev. Load it from your environment or secret
# store in real code - keep it out of source control.
API_KEY = "sk_your_key_here"
HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}

# 1. Search, then page with the returned cursor
first = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/pinterest/search", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"query": "home decor ideas"}).json()
cursor = first["data"]["cursor"]
nxt = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/pinterest/search", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"query": "home decor ideas", "cursor": cursor}).json()

# 2. One pin in full
pin = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/pinterest/pin", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"pin": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/104779128829676115/"}).json()

# 3. A creator's profile and boards
profile = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/pinterest/profile", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"username": "pinterest"}).json()

# 4. Save counts for two external URLs (1 credit for 1-5 URLs)
stats = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v1/pinterest/url-stats", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"urls": ["https://www.nytimes.com", "https://www.allrecipes.com"]}).json()

curl:

curl -s https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/pinterest/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAVIO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"minimalist kitchen"}'

Response shape

Every response uses the envelope { data, response_time, credits_used, credits_remaining }. data carries the pins/profile/board payload plus count and (for the paginated endpoints) cursor.

Guardrails

• url-stats is 1 credit for 1-5 URLs, 2 credits for 6-10; every other endpoint is 1 credit, including an empty result.
• Cursor pagination only: never guess a cursor, always feed back the one the previous response returned; stop when it is null.
• A bare numeric board id cannot carry board metadata - the board field will be null. Pass a board URL or username/slug if you need it.
• url-stats matching is exact-string; a trailing slash or query difference is a different URL, and counts can be 0 or stale.
• Never fabricate pins, counts, profiles or board data. Only return what the API returned.
• Pin descriptions and profiles are written by real people. Summarise; do not build profiles of individuals.

Failure handling

• 400 means an invalid or missing parameter. Fix and retry.
• 401 means the API key is invalid or missing. Check SCAVIO_API_KEY.
• 404 means the pin, user or board could not be resolved.
• 429 means rate or usage limit exceeded. Wait before retrying. See rate limits.
• 502 / 503 mean the source is temporarily unavailable - wait a few seconds and retry.
• If SCAVIO_API_KEY is not set, prompt the user to export it before continuing.