Pinterestbot
What is Pinterestbot?
About
Pinterestbot is a fetcher operated by Pinterest. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Pinterestbot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.
Agent Type
Expected Behavior
Fetchers retrieve metadata from web pages to generate link previews in social media platforms, messaging apps, and content aggregators. They're triggered on-demand when users share or post links, fetching information like titles, descriptions, and thumbnail images. Traffic is unpredictable and correlates with how often your content is shared. Viral content may trigger thousands of fetcher requests in a short period. Fetchers typically access only the shared URL rather than crawling your site.
Detail
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| Last Updated | 18 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
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Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block Pinterestbot?
Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.
How Do I Block Pinterestbot?
You can block Pinterestbot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.
| User Agent String | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Pinterestbot/1.0; +http://www.pinterest.com/bot.html) |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Pinterestbot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/pinterestbot
Disallow: /
⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.