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pinterest-client

A simple python client for Pinterest that support user interact with Pinterest such as simple browser.

Support operations: login, pin, save pin, delete pin, boards, create board, delete board, follow board, follow user, comment, search pins, search users, search boards.

Installation

This package is in pypi so you can install it easily using pip command:

pip install pinterest-client

or install from source code if you downloaded it from this GitHub repository by using command:

python setup.py install

Dependencies

This package depends on some other Python packages:

They are included in the requirements of this package so you won’t have to manually install them.

Usage

After installation was successful, you can initialize a new pinterest object:

from pinterest import Pinterest

pinterest = Pinterest(username_or_email='your_username_or_email', password='your_password')

With proxies

If you need to use a proxy, you can pass proxies argument to constructor

from pinterest import Pinterest

proxies = {
    'http': 'http://10.10.1.10:3128',
    'https': 'http://10.10.1.10:1080',
}

pinterest = Pinterest(
    username_or_email='your_username_or_email',
    password='your_password',
    proxies=proxies)

Custom User-Agent

You can also use your custom User-Agent string for each pinterest-client object

from pinterest import Pinterest

agent_string='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0'

pinterest = Pinterest(
    username_or_email='your_username_or_email',
    password='your_password',
    agent_string=agent_string)

Operations

from pinterest import Pinterest

pinterest = Pinterest(username_or_email='your_username_or_email', password='your_password')

# Login to pinterest site, if 'ok' return True otherwise return False
logged_in = pinterest.login()

# Get all boards of logged in user
boards = pinterest.boards()

# Create new board, it also return new board data if creation was successful
pinterest.create_board(name='Board name', description='Description')

# Follow a board
pinterest.follow_board(board_id='657384945546806337', board_url='/cvhautt/animal/')

# Follow a user
pinterest.follow_user(user_id='657385014266199005', username='cvhautt')

# Create pin from an image url
pin = pinterest.pin(
    board_id='657384945546806337',
    image_url='your_image_url',
    description='your_description (*optional)',
    link='your_link (*optional)')

# Create pin by uploading an image from your computer
uploaded_pin = pinterest.upload_pin(
    board_id='657384945546806337',
    image_file='full_path_to_your_image',
    description='your_description (*optional)')

# Save a pin to your board (known as Save button on Pinterest site)
pinterest.repin(board_id='657385014266199005', pin_id='pin_id')

# Delete a pin
pinterest.delete_pin(pin_id='your_pin_id')

# Comment on a pin
cmt = pinterest.comment(pin_id='your_pin_id', text='your_comment_text')

# Delete a comment from pin
pinterest.delete_comment(pin_id='your_pin_id', comment_id='your_comment_id')

# Invite a person to join to your board
pinterest.invite(board_id='your_board_id', board_url='your_board_url', user_id='user_id')

# Search data on Pinterest site
boards = pinterest.search_boards(query='Some query')
pins = pinterest.search_pins(query='Some query')
users = pinterest.search_users(query='Some query')

# You can also get next page from search result by passing next_page=True to search operations above.
# Exp:
boards = pinterest.search_boards(query='Some query', next_page=True)
pins = pinterest.search_pins(query='Some query',next_page=True)

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