Pinterestbot
Pinterest's search engine.
- Operator
- Type
- Search engine
- In the user agent
Pinterestbot,Pinterest/0.- robots.txt token
Pinterestbot- Follows robots.txt
- says it follows robots.txt
- Official documentation
- help.pinterest.com
- Checked on
- 2026-11-11
What is Pinterestbot?
Pinterestbot is Pinterest's search engine. It indexes pages for a search engine, whose results also feed AI answers.
The operator's description: Indexes pages and keeps Pin details (price, title, links) up to date; not used to train Pinterest Canvas.
(help.pinterest.com)
How do I block or allow Pinterestbot?
With robots.txt, using the token Pinterestbot. Pinterest says it follows robots.txt. To block the whole site:
User-agent: Pinterestbot
Disallow: /To allow it, use Allow instead of Disallow. Before blocking, weigh what it brings: without it, the assistant cannot find your pages to cite or recommend them.
How do I see whether Pinterestbot visits my site?
In your server or CDN access logs, look for Pinterestbot, Pinterest/0. in the user agent. Google Analytics does not show these visits: agents do not run its JavaScript.
Anyone can copy the name in a user agent, so counting log lines is not enough. Knocklog reads your site's traffic on any host, confirms who is who, and shows how often Pinterestbot came, which pages it read and what that brought you.
How do I know it is really Pinterestbot?
The IP's reverse DNS, confirmed forward and back, must end in .pinterest.com or .pinterestcrawler.com.
Knocklog runs this check on every visit and separates the genuine agent from impostors.
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