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PinterestBot

Name: PinterestBot
Author: Pinterest

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Pinterestbot is Pinterest’s web crawler. Pinterestbot crawls, or visits public websites to index their content, with the aim of driving traffic back to those websites. It also scrapes content to make sure Pin details, like price and title, are up to date, and to detect and remove broken website links behind Pins. Operated by Pinterest.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Aggregator

What is PinterestBot?

PinterestBot is a web crawler operated by Pinterest. Pinterestbot is Pinterest’s web crawler. Pinterestbot crawls, or visits public websites to index their content, with the aim of driving traffic back to those websites. It also scrapes content to make sure Pin details, like price and title, are up to date, and to detect and remove broken website links behind Pins.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

PinterestBot

Operator

Why it crawls your site

PinterestBot crawls websites to aggregate content from multiple sources. It is operated by Pinterest as part of their content aggregation infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow PinterestBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for pinterest.com/ in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block PinterestBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: pinterest.com/
Disallow: /

# Allow PinterestBot full access
User-agent: pinterest.com/
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows pinterest.com/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Pinterest's documentation.