Bots by company
Pinterest bots and crawlers
Pinterest runs a visual discovery and bookmarking platform.
Pinterest bots at a glance
- Pinterest runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Social and Messaging Previews.
- Each Pinterest bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.pinterest.com
Every Pinterest bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pinterestbot | Social and Messaging Previews | Search indexLink previewOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all Pinterest bots
The rules below name every Pinterest token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Pinterest bots
User-agent: Pinterestbot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Pinterest bots
User-agent: Pinterestbot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Pinterest bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Pinterestbot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Pinterest bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Pinterestbot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Pinterest bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Pinterestbot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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