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Pinterest

A Pinterest profile shows its follower count right under the name. For brands and creators it is a real audience number, and it sits on a public page. The official API treats it differently.

What the official API asks of you

A registered app and an OAuth flow. The account endpoint that reports follower and pin counts describes the account that authorized your app. To read someone else's numbers, that person has to sign in through your app first.

That model makes sense for tools that manage your own boards. It does not fit tracking a list of public accounts you do not own.

What Metrika gives you for Pinterest

Send a username and get back the datapoints we hold for it: follower count and pin count. The identifier is the name from the profile URL, so pinterest.com/nasa is simply nasa.

bash 
$ curl -X POST https://metrika.run/api/v1/resources/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"resources": [{"platform": "pinterest", "type": "account", "identifier": "nasa"}]}'

Both come back under metrics. The pin count uses the common posts datapoint name and carries a semantic field of pins, so your interface can use Pinterest's own word for it.

The same request shape everywhere

Pinterest is one of many platforms Metrika supports, alongside Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, GitHub, Twitch, Kick, Telegram, Snapchat, Discord, Reddit, Spotify, and SoundCloud. The request you write here is the request you write for all of them, and that matters because a brand's audience is spread out. The same brand has an Instagram account, a TikTok profile, and a YouTube channel, and the useful view is all of them side by side. One token, one response shape, up to ten resources in a single call, mixing platforms freely.

What Metrika is not

Metrika is read-only and public-only. It will not list boards or pins, report saves or impressions, or read analytics that only the account owner can see. If you need that, the official API is the right tool for the job.

Getting started

Create an account, generate an API key from your dashboard, and you get up to 500 requests per month at no cost, no credit card required. The docs cover authentication and response formats.

Get started with Metrika

Create a free account and start pulling social media datapoints in minutes. The free tier includes 500 requests per month, no credit card required.

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