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Pinterest Public Data connection guide

Follow these steps to connect your Pinterest Public Data data to Supermetrics and use your data in our data destinations — Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Excel, and Power BI, as well as the Supermetrics API. You can also connect to data sources from the Supermetrics Hub.


You can share your data source connection with your team and use the connection across all data destinations you use with Supermetrics. Learn more about shared connections.


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.


Query types

  • 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


Instructions

Google Sheets

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

  1. Open a new Google Sheets file.
  2. Navigate to ExtensionsSupermetricsLaunch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
  3. Click Create query.
  4. Under Data source, select Pinterest Public Data.
  5. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  6. Click Start.
  7. Navigate to Report configuration.
  8. Select your query type.
  9. Add the Pinterest usernames or Pin URLs under Type URLs. You can add more than one username or URL, each on a new line.

Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Google Sheets.

Looker Studio
  1. Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
  2. Navigate to Pinterest Public Data and click Start free trial.
  3. 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.
  4. 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").
  5. Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
  6. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  7. Click Start.
  8. Select your query type, and click Next.
  9. Add the Pinterest usernames or Pin URLs under Type URLs. You can add more than one username or URL, separated by commas.
  10. In the pane's top right, click Connect.
  11. Click Create report.
  12. Click Add to report.

Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Looker Studio.

Excel

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

  1. Open an Excel file.
  2. Click DataShow Supermetrics.
  3. Under Data source, select Pinterest Public Data.
  4. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  5. Click Start.
  6. Navigate to Report configuration.
  7. Select your query type.
  8. Add the Pinterest usernames or Pin URLs under Type URLs. You can add more than one username or URL, each on a new line.

Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Excel.

Power BI
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, go to Destinations → Power BI.
  3. Click Create or edit queries.
  4. Click Select a data source.
  5. Select the Pinterest Public Data data source.
  6. Click Start.
  7. Fill in the query details.
  8. Click Run query to test your query.
The Supermetrics API
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, click API.
  3. Select for Supermetrics API from the dropdown menu next to the page title.
  4. Click Select data source.
  5. Select the Pinterest Public Data data source.
  6. Click Start.
  7. Fill in the query details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a Supermetrics API query in Query Manager.
  8. Click Run to test your query.
Supermetrics Hub
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, click Data sources.
  3. Scroll down to the list of data sources you haven't connected to. You see this list below your existing connections, under the title Connect to new data source.
  4. Hover over the Pinterest Public Data data source, and click Connect.
  5. Click Start.


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