Pinterest video downloader
Pinterest video is the format that made recipe pins take over, and it is the one you most often want off the platform: a technique you want to watch again with your hands covered in flour, offline, without the app deciding what to show you next.
Pin no. —
Holding empty
- Title
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- Format
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- Largest file
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Take a copy
HEVC — smaller, but some older Android and Windows players cannot open it.
Pick a size, because the range is enormous
This is the part other tools hide. Pinterest does not publish one video file — it publishes several, and the gap between them is dramatic. On one takoyaki recipe pin, the same twenty seconds of video exists as a 1.39 MB file, a 2.46 MB file, and an 8.65 MB file. On a different pin, the only file offered is 28 MB. What Pinterest actually stores behind a pin lists the full set measured on one clip.
So the card gives you up to three:
- Full size is Pinterest's H.264 file. Largest, and it opens on absolutely everything.
- Medium and Light are HEVC. Much smaller for the same picture, and marked as HEVC on the card, because that is the honest catch: HEVC is fine on any recent iPhone or Mac, and some older Android phones and Windows players will refuse to open it.
If you are downloading over mobile data, Light is often a tenth of the size. If you are not sure what will play it, take Full size — or read which Pinterest video file will actually play on your device, which is ninety seconds and settles it.
Some pins only have one file
Not every pin gets the full set. When Pinterest published only one rendition, the card shows one size and says so, rather than inventing choices. Occasionally that single file is 28 MB for a short clip, which is worth knowing before you tap it on a train.
Sound
Whatever the pin has. Pinterest videos frequently have no audio track at all — a lot of recipe and craft video is captioned rather than narrated — so a silent download is usually the pin being silent, not the download failing.
Frequently asked
Can I get 1080p or 4K? Only if Pinterest stored it. The best file here is whatever the largest rendition on the pin actually is, most often 720p. No tool can produce detail that was never uploaded.
Why is the download coming through grabpins instead of Pinterest? Because Pinterest's video servers will not let another website read their files directly from your browser. Routing the bytes through here is what makes the file save properly with a sensible name instead of opening in a tab.
I pasted a pin and it turned out to be a photo, not a video. The lookup reads whatever the pin is holding rather than what the page led you to expect. Take it from the card as normal; the Pinterest image downloader page explains what the size choices mean for photos.
Will it work on a phone? Yes, and where the file ends up differs by platform. There is a page for each: on iPhone the file lands in Files and needs one more tap to reach Photos; on Android it goes straight to Downloads, but the codec catch bites harder; on a PC or Mac there is nothing to install and full size is usually the right choice.