Pinterestbot

[lucy24]

What the heck is this? I've never seen it before in my life:

54.236.1.12 - - [06/Jun/2017:06:07:57 -0700] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 795 "-" "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; +http://www.pinterest.com/bot.html)" 
54.236.1.12 - - [06/Jun/2017:06:07:57 -0700] "GET /dir/page/ HTTP/1.1" 403 1821 "-" <snip>

Surprisingly, 54.236.1 does seem to be Pinterest--at least for the moment.

[keyplyr]

Yup, Pinterestbot is a bot from Pinterest :)

When you sign-up for a free account at Pinterest, there is a setting to put a link to your site. Doing so will launch the Pinterestbot to verify that link.

Other reasons for a visit is when you or someone else posts a stand-alone link, links an image or gives your site as the source for an image.

These can be high traffic sources and some actually make a measurable income from it.

[keyplyr]

I think it's worth noting that if you are poking holes in Amazon ranges for Pinterestbot, the UA has changed from Pinterestbot starting the UA string, to it now being in the middle of the string.