Pinterest Search by Image Feature Not Working

[pickuse2013]

System

• OS name: Windows
• OS version: 11
• Browser name: Chrome
• Browser version: 132
• Extension version: 8.1.0

Bug description

The "Search by Image" feature on "Pinterest" is not working. It seems that Pinterest has changed its API.
Currently, the response from https://api.pinterest.com/v3/visual_search/extension/image/ contains an empty data array.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the Chrome browser with the Pinterest-related extension installed.
2. Try using the "Search by Image" feature.
3. Open the Developer Tools (Ctrl+Shift+J) and go to the Network tab.
4. Look at the response from https://api.pinterest.com/v3/visual_search/extension/image/, and check if the data is an empty array.

[Louis2024ht]

Same for me, search on Pinterest not working.

[dessant]

This API was used by the Pinterest extension to search with the images you see on a web page. This feature can no longer be found in the latest version of their extension, so Pinterest is probably shutting down the API endpoint. I'm not aware of any alternative to search with an image on Pinterest. If someone has seen a working alternative, please share your findings.

[wang19980501]

在eagle最新版本中修复了这个API，使用eagle最新的插件功能可以用来搜索pinterest。不过会员是需要收费的。

[dessant]

@wang19980501, @haha0803, thank you both for sharing that app, it may be useful.

[wang19980501]

@dessant May I ask when it can be fixed？

[Louis2024ht]

@dessant Good news, it's working again.

[pickuse2013]

I'm think they fixed the API.

[haha0803]

Thanks to the author, I can search for pictures normally again

[Louis2024ht]

I can see that the official Save to Pinterest Chrome extension was updated today (version 6.12.0), must be related to that.

[dessant]

It seems they did not bring back the visual search feature in the official extension, but the API was turned back on.