pinterest.com/bot

social-preview pinterest\.com\/bot

Pinterest web crawler for content discovery

About this crawler

pinterest.com/bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern pinterest\.com\/bot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block pinterest.com/bot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

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Technical details

Name
pinterest.com/bot
Pattern
pinterest\.com\/bot
Tags
social-preview
Reference
https://help.pinterest.com/en/business/article/pinterestbot
Added
2017/03/03
rDNS suffixes
.pinimg.com, .pinterest.com
Instances
2 known sample(s)

rDNS verification (FCrDNS)

Verify a request is genuinely pinterest.com/bot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Pinterestbot/1.0; +http://www.pinterest.com/bot.html)
Pinterest/0.2 (+http://www.pinterest.com/bot.html)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow pinterest.com/bot:

User-agent: pinterest.com/bot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} pinterest\.com\/bot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "pinterest\\.com\\/bot") { return 403; }
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