py3-pinterest 1.4.0
Unofficial pinterest api implemented in python 3
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3.5.0


# py3-pinterest
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Unofficial Pinterest API implemented in python 3 that can do all Pinterest tasks like comment, pin, repin, follow, unfollow, and more.

It is implemented by directly calling the pinterest servers, mimicking an actual browser, so you don't need pinterest API key.

If you see any issues, or find bugs feel free to report them here on the github repo.

## Community guides
[Get started with pinterest automation](https://martechwithme.com/how-to-automate-pinterest-interactions-python "Martechwithme.com")

[Automated posting to Pinterest (in Russian)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQBceIiv_Gk&ab_channel=Analitiq "Analitiq YouTube")


## Install using pip
```pip install py3-pinterest```


### NOTE: for each of the functionalities listed below there is a working example under the project root.

### Create new instance of the API

```pinterest = Pinterest(email='your email goes here', password='password goes here', username='look in pinterest url', cred_root='cred root dir')```

cred_root is the dir (automatically created if missing) that will store some cookies and sessions, so you don't need to login before each request.
Make sure you specify a path with read/write permissions.

Proxies example:

```
proxies = {"http":"http://username:password@proxy_ip:proxy_port"}
Pinterest(email='emai', password='pass', username='name', cred_root='cred_root', proxies=proxies)
```

# The following features are currently supported

## Login/Logout
## NOTE: Pinterest integrated google recaptcha. This means we have to use web driver to login. For that reason you must have chrome installed on you computer, in order for the login to work.
### If you want to use many accounts, you should associate proxy with each one of them and login only with that proxy
### pinterest.login(proxy='ip_address:port')
Login will store auth cookies for later use. These cookies are usually valid for ~15 days, then you will start getting 403 and 401 errors, which means you need to call login again. 
## Login
Login is required to permit actions to the Pinterest servers. Login will store auth cookies for later use. These cookies are usually valid for ~15 days, then you will start getting 403 and 401 errors, which means you need to call login again. 

```pinterest.login()```

```pinterest.logout()```



## Load profile
You can load profile for currently logged in user or any user specified by username.

```user_profile = pinterest.get_user_overview()```


## Board and pin management

### Get all boards of user:

```boards = pinterest.boards(username='username')```

### List all pins in board
```pins = pinterest.board_feed(board_id=board_id)```

If username is left blank, current logged in user will be used.


### Delete pin
```pinterest.delete_pin(pin_id='pin_id')```

### Repin

```pinterest.repin(board_id='board_id', pin_id='pin_id')```

### Get ID of created pin, section, or board

All functions return the post/get data from the request. If you dig a little deeper by going myrequest.content you get the actual HTML response, which can then be turned into a dict by using JSON.

Example:

```py
import json

pin_response = upload_pin(board_id='',
             image_path='test.png',
             description='TESTING PIN FUNCTIONALITY WITH ID FETCHING',
             title='Foobar Barfood',
             section_id=None,
             link='')

response_data = json.loads(pin_response.content)
```

Some helpful notes on the response:
Everything is stored inside the "resource_response" key. You can use that and grab all sorts of data like so:

```py
# This is how you would access this information when creating a pin

id = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["id"]
board_id = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["board"]["id"]
section_id = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["section"]["id"]
pinner_username = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["pinner"]["username"]
pinner_id = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["pinner"]["id"]

# If you wanted to access this information in a different circumstance,
# keep in mind that whatever you are creating should be the first level under "data"
# I.e, I created a board, and I want to get the board ID. It would now be:

board_id = response_data["resource_response"]["data"]["id"]
```

### Get pinnable images
A pinterest feature they use to pin from websites

```pinterest.get_pinnable_images(url='https://www.tumblr.com/search/food')```

### Pin

Pin image by web url:

```pinterest.pin(board_id=board_id, image_url=image_url, description=description, title=title)```

Pin image from local file:

```pinterest.upload_pin(board_id=board_id, section_id=section_id, image_file=image_path, description=description, title=title, link=link)```

### Get home feed pins

``` home_feed_batch = pinterest.home_feed()```

### Get board recommendations (this is the 'more ideas' api)

```rec_batch = pinterest.board_recommendations(board_id=board_id)```

### Get pin information by id

```pinterest.load_pin(pin_id='pin_id')```

### Board Section support
```pinterest.create_board_section(board_id=board_id, section_name=section_name)```
```pinterest.delete_board_section(section_id=section_id)```
```pinterest.get_board_sections(board_id=board_id)```

You can also pin and repin to sections.


## Follow/Unfollow

### Follow
```pinterest.follow_user(user_id='target_user_id', username='target_username')```

Follow limit is 300 per day, after that they might place you on a watch list


### Unfollow

```pinterest.unfollow_user(user_id='target_user_id', username='target_username')```

Unfollow limit is 350 per day, after that they might place you on a watch list

### Get following

```following_batch = pinterest.get_following(username='some_user')```

If username is not provided current user will be used

### Get followers

```followers_batch=pinterest.get_user_followers(username='some_user')```

If username is not provided current user will be used

### Follow board

```pinterest.follow_board(board_id=board_id)```

### Unfollow board

```pinterest.unfollow_board(board_id=board_id)```


## Search

```search_batch = pinterest.search(scope='boards', query='food')```

Current pinterest scopes are: pins, buyable_pins, my_pins, videos, boards

### Visual Search

```
  pin_data = pinterest.load_pin(pin_id='pin_id')
  search_batch = pinterest.visual_search(pin_data, x=10, y=50, w=100, h=100)
```
## User interactions
### Invite to board

```pinterest.invite(board_id=board_id, user_id=target_user_id)```

### Delete board invite

```pinterest.delete_invite(board_id=board_id, invited_user_id=target_user_id)```

### Get board invites

```invites_batch = pinterest.get_board_invites(board_id=board_id)```

### Comment

```pinterest.comment(pin_id=pin_id, text=comment_text)```

### Delete comment 
```pinterest.delete_comment(pin_id=pin_id, comment_id=comment_id)```

### Get Pin comments

```pinterest.get_comments(pin_id='pin_id')```


### Send personal message
```pinterest.send_message(conversation_id=conversation_id, pin_id="(pin_id)", message="hey")```


### Access to type suggestions you see in the search input
```pinterest.type_ahead(term='apple')```