Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: pinterest-client
Version: 1.0.2
Summary: A simple python client for Pinterest that support user interact with Pinterest such as simple browser.
Home-page: https://github.com/cvhau/pinterest-client
Author: Hau Van
Author-email: cvhau.tt@gmail.com
License: MIT
Keywords: Python Pinterest Client,Python Pinterest API
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Requires-Dist: requests
Requires-Dist: requests-toolbelt

pinterest-client
----------------

A simple python client for Pinterest that support user interact with
Pinterest such as simple browser.

Support operations: login, pin, save pin, delete pin, boards, create
board, delete board, follow board, follow user, comment, search pins,
search users, search boards.

Installation
------------

`This package is in
pypi <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pinterest-client>`__ so you can
install it easily using pip command:

.. code:: sh

    pip install pinterest-client

or install from source code if you downloaded it from `this GitHub
repository <https://github.com/cvhau/pinterest-client>`__ by using
command:

.. code:: sh

    python setup.py install

Dependencies
------------

This package depends on some other Python packages:

-  `requests <http://docs.python-requests.org>`__
-  `requests\_toolbelt <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests-toolbelt>`__

They are included in the requirements of this package so you won't have
to manually install them.

Usage
-----

After installation was successful, you can initialize a new pinterest
object:

.. code:: python

    from pinterest import Pinterest

    pinterest = Pinterest(username_or_email='your_username_or_email', password='your_password')

With proxies
''''''''''''

If you need to use a proxy, you can pass proxies argument to constructor

.. code:: python

    from pinterest import Pinterest

    proxies = {
        'http': 'http://10.10.1.10:3128',
        'https': 'http://10.10.1.10:1080',
    }

    pinterest = Pinterest(
        username_or_email='your_username_or_email', 
        password='your_password', 
        proxies=proxies)

Custom User-Agent
'''''''''''''''''

You can also use your custom User-Agent string for each pinterest-client
object

.. code:: python

    from pinterest import Pinterest

    agent_string='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0'

    pinterest = Pinterest(
        username_or_email='your_username_or_email', 
        password='your_password', 
        agent_string=agent_string)

Operations
''''''''''

.. code:: python

    from pinterest import Pinterest

    pinterest = Pinterest(username_or_email='your_username_or_email', password='your_password')

    # Login to pinterest site, if 'ok' return True otherwise return False
    logged_in = pinterest.login()

    # Get all boards of logged in user
    boards = pinterest.boards()

    # Create new board, it also return new board data if creation was successful
    pinterest.create_board(name='Board name', description='Description')

    # Follow a board
    pinterest.follow_board(board_id='657384945546806337', board_url='/cvhautt/animal/')

    # Follow a user
    pinterest.follow_user(user_id='657385014266199005', username='cvhautt')

    # Create pin from an image url
    pin = pinterest.pin(
        board_id='657384945546806337', 
        image_url='your_image_url', 
        description='your_description (*optional)', 
        link='your_link (*optional)')

    # Create pin by uploading an image from your computer
    uploaded_pin = pinterest.upload_pin(
        board_id='657384945546806337', 
        image_file='full_path_to_your_image', 
        description='your_description (*optional)')

    # Save a pin to your board (known as Save button on Pinterest site)
    pinterest.repin(board_id='657385014266199005', pin_id='pin_id')

    # Delete a pin
    pinterest.delete_pin(pin_id='your_pin_id')

    # Comment on a pin
    cmt = pinterest.comment(pin_id='your_pin_id', text='your_comment_text')

    # Delete a comment from pin
    pinterest.delete_comment(pin_id='your_pin_id', comment_id='your_comment_id')

    # Invite a person to join to your board
    pinterest.invite(board_id='your_board_id', board_url='your_board_url', user_id='user_id')

    # Search data on Pinterest site
    boards = pinterest.search_boards(query='Some query')
    pins = pinterest.search_pins(query='Some query')
    users = pinterest.search_users(query='Some query')

    # You can also get next page from search result by passing next_page=True to search operations above.
    # Exp:
    boards = pinterest.search_boards(query='Some query', next_page=True)
    pins = pinterest.search_pins(query='Some query',next_page=True)


