Verified Bots Directory

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Pinterestbot

Verifiable

Pinterest's crawler, used both for general web indexing and for validating Pin metadata/broken links. Pinterest documents a reverse-DNS verification method rather than a fixed IP list, since only its US-based traffic uses a stable range.

Operated by Pinterest · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexPinterest(bot)?/\d
  • observedPinterest/0.2 (+https://www.pinterest.com/bot.html)
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Pinterestbot/1.0; +https://www.pinterest.com/bot.html)

How to verify

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.pinterest.com

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.pinterest.com, *.pinterestcrawler.com

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: Pinterestbot)

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.