Pinterest Public Data connection guide

Supermetrics Support Site Team

Modified on: Thu, 23 Feb, 2023 at 4:29 PM

Use this guide to connect Pinterest Public Data to Supermetrics.

If you need to connect this data source to one of our data warehouse or cloud storage destinations, explore our data warehouse and cloud storage setup guides.

Before you begin

Pinterest Public Data allows you to collect publicly available data about Pinterest posts. It doesn't require you to log in to a specific account.

Pinterest pins for URLs: A count of how many times a specific URL has been pinned
Pinterest user data: User information like account name, profile link, follower count, and more
Pinterest pins for users: Data on user pins, including Pin URL, image, description, and more

Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.

Open a new Google Sheets file.
Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
Click Create query.
Under Data source, select Pinterest Public Data.
Click Start.
Navigate to Report configuration.
Select your query type, and then add your Pinterest username under Type URLs. You can add more than one username, each on a new line.

Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Looker Studio before following the steps below.

Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
Navigate to Pinterest Public Data and click Start free trial.
You'll see two buttons that read Authorize. If you're using Supermetrics for the first time, click the left-hand one and log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics.
Once that's done, or if you've done it before, click the right-hand Authorize button (under "Pinterest Public Data requires authorization to connect to data").
Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
Choose to make this connection shared or private.
Click Start.
Select your query type, and then add your Pinterest username under Type URLs. You can add more than one username, each on a new line.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page. To create a report with our template, select Use report template for new reports. To create a blank report, deselect this option.
In the pane's top right, click Connect.
Click Create report.
Click Add to report.

Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.

Open an Excel file.
Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
Under Data source, select Pinterest Public Data.
Choose to make this connection shared or private.
Click Start.
Navigate to Report configuration.
Select your query type, and then add your Pinterest username under Type URLs. You can add more than one username, each on a new line.