Overview
PinterestBot is a search crawler from Pinterest used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Pinterestbot; related patterns include pinterest.com/; Pinterest crawler; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Pinterestbot/1.0; +https://www.pinterest.com/bot.html).
PinterestBot is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
PinterestBot is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
PinterestBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
Pinterestbot- Aliases
- pinterest.com/; Pinterest crawler
- HTTP Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Pinterestbot/1.0; +https://www.pinterest.com/bot.html)- Robots.txt Token
Pinterestbot- Identity Type
- Official Documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify PinterestBot by matching `Pinterestbot` to Pinterest evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Purpose
- indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- PinterestBot is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Detection Notes
- PinterestBot traffic is primarily detected by the `Pinterestbot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `pinterest.com/; Pinterest crawler`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Pinterestbot/1.0; +https://www.pinterest.com/bot.html)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Pinterest infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- PinterestBot has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Pinterestbot Disallow: /