How to export/back up pinterest links?
February 12, 2025 9:20 AM Subscribe
Pinterest has become a swamp of genAI pins and horrific AI based automoderation, and I want out. But I have 400 recipes on a pinterest board and I want to get a list of those links exported from my board.
I have tried pinkbackit bookmarklet on 3 different browsers--Chrome, FF, and Edge--and it worked on none of them, in logged-in incognito/barebones mode or not. I can't find an extension that seems to do what I want on any of those browsers. Ideas? I do not relish the idea of manually creating a list of links.
I have tried pinkbackit bookmarklet on 3 different browsers--Chrome, FF, and Edge--and it worked on none of them, in logged-in incognito/barebones mode or not. I can't find an extension that seems to do what I want on any of those browsers. Ideas? I do not relish the idea of manually creating a list of links.
Response by poster: I should have mentioned that I did do this request and am still waiting for the export--but the language on the web page seems to be limited to data collected about me for ad purposes and not the literal contents of my pinboards. We shall see I suppose.
posted by MagnificentVacuum at 1:19 PM on February 12
posted by MagnificentVacuum at 1:19 PM on February 12
I pulled down the import. The top of the ToC is information about you, but you do get links to your categories as static webpages.
The images are still hosted at Pinterest, and I think any links to the pre Pinterest source are gone.
Didn’t look into the social graph.
posted by clew at 2:44 PM on February 12
The images are still hosted at Pinterest, and I think any links to the pre Pinterest source are gone.
Didn’t look into the social graph.
posted by clew at 2:44 PM on February 12
asked Firefox to save a sub-category of a named Board as "Web page, Complete" and got all the images in a sub-directory. I also got a whole lot of specialized javascript files and doodahs to ignore.
Step by step: the download is in a file "pinterest.html". Open that locally, scroll down the left pane until you get the link "Boards". "Boards" takes you to a list of boards in the right-hand pane; click on one of those links and you are back at Pinterest, looking at that board *as an un-logged-in visitor*. If you save that page "Web page, Complete" you get another html file on your computer and also local images on a subdirectory.
Could presumably have done the saving page-by-page while logged in, without the export.
Could presumably write a more efficient crawler, too.
posted by clew at 4:59 PM on February 12
Step by step: the download is in a file "pinterest.html". Open that locally, scroll down the left pane until you get the link "Boards". "Boards" takes you to a list of boards in the right-hand pane; click on one of those links and you are back at Pinterest, looking at that board *as an un-logged-in visitor*. If you save that page "Web page, Complete" you get another html file on your computer and also local images on a subdirectory.
Could presumably have done the saving page-by-page while logged in, without the export.
Could presumably write a more efficient crawler, too.
posted by clew at 4:59 PM on February 12
Can you borrow someone’s Mac? I got this to work using Pinback it on Safari.
posted by girlmightlive at 6:39 AM on February 13
posted by girlmightlive at 6:39 AM on February 13
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I don't have an account so I can't tell you how easy it'll be to read the output, but at least you'll have *something*.
If the export is a nightmare and you feel comfortable memailing it to me I might be able to make it into a spreadsheet or something.
posted by gregr at 10:37 AM on February 12 [1 favorite]