Pinterest

Operator

Pinterest

Type

Crawler

Official page

help.pinterest.com

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Link previews

User agent

Requests from Pinterest carry user agents like these:

Pinterest/0.2 (+http://www.pinterest.com/)

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

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Pinterestbot/1.0;  https://www.pinterest.com/bot.html)

Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):

Pinterest(?:bot)?/.*www\.pinterest\.com

Anyone can put any name in a user agent. Where the operator publishes IP ranges, checking the request's address against them is the way to confirm a visit is genuine.

How Vireo counts Pinterest

Vireo keeps requests from Pinterest out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Link previews, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.

Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over Pinterest's user agents.

Sources

• Pinterest information page (help.pinterest.com)
• Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)