PinterestBot — What It Is and How to Handle It
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.
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.
Operator: Pinterest | Type: Aggregator | Category: Aggregator
PinterestBot is classified as aggregator. Use Centinel to monitor its behavior and decide whether to allow, block, challenge, or monetize its access to your content.
Centinel automatically detects PinterestBot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.