Pinterest downloader — save the file behind a pin

Pinterest is very good at helping you find things and very reluctant to let you keep them. A pin you saved two years ago is still there, but the recipe video, the pattern photo, the paint-colour close-up — those live on Pinterest's servers, not yours.

Paste a pin link below and you get the file itself.

Pin no. —

Holding empty

One box, whichever kind of pin it is

The Holding field naming what a pin turns out to contain

Most tools make you pick first: video downloader here, image downloader there. That split is a filing decision, not a technical one. A pin page carries its video, its still image and its preview in the same place, so a single lookup already knows which of them exists.

You paste the link. The card fills in what the pin actually holds, and offers what can be taken.

Each kind has its own page if you want the detail: the Pinterest video downloader covers picking a size, the Pinterest image downloader covers resolutions, and the Pinterest GIF downloader explains why most Pinterest GIFs are not GIF files any more.

If it is a video you are after and you want the steps for your own device, there is a page for iPhone, one for Android, and one for a PC or Mac.

What you get

A copy taken, stamped onto the slip with its real filename

Every file comes through this site rather than straight from Pinterest's servers. That is not a detour for its own sake — it is the only way the file arrives as a proper download with a name you will recognise later. A direct link to Pinterest's CDN opens the video in a browser tab under a filename like 394e02bc553b4c198ad0fd5f7fae45a7.mp4, because browsers ignore a download instruction pointing at someone else's domain.

So easy-homemade-takoyaki-16184879906248314.mp4 is what lands in your downloads folder.

There is more of this than you would expect underneath one pin — six video files, several image widths and a playlist that is not a video at all. What Pinterest actually stores behind a pin goes through the whole drawer.

What this will not do

Secret boards. If a board is secret, the pin cannot be read from outside, and no tool can change that.
Bulk boards and whole profiles. One pin at a time, for now.
Anything that removes a watermark. If the person who made the video burned their name into it, it stays.

Keeping things you did not make

Saving a pin for yourself — a recipe to cook on Sunday, a pattern to sew, a room to show a builder — is ordinary. Re-uploading someone's video as your own is not, and it is the reason creators dislike tools like this one.

The file you download belongs to whoever made it. Credit them, link them, and do not repost what you did not make.