pinterest-export

Scrape any public Pinterest board from the command line.
Exports structured JSON, LLM-ready Markdown, and optionally caches all images locally — with a beautiful Rich progress UI.

$ pinterest-export https://www.pinterest.com/designmilk/packaging/

──────────────── pinterest-export ────────────────
  Board : designmilk/packaging
  URL   : https://www.pinterest.com/designmilk/packaging/

⏳ Scraping board…  42 pins found so far
✓ Scraped 87 pins.

⠸ Downloading images…  ████████░░  67/87  77%  00:12
✓ Downloaded 85 / 87 images.

┌─ Export Summary ──────────────────────────────┐
│ Board          │ designmilk/packaging          │
│ Pins scraped   │ 87                            │
│ Images cached  │ 85                            │
│ board.json     │ ./pinterest-export-output/... │
│ board.md       │ ./pinterest-export-output/... │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Install

pip install pinterest-export
playwright install chromium

Usage

# Scrape and export JSON + Markdown
pinterest-export https://www.pinterest.com/username/boardname

# Custom output directory
pinterest-export https://www.pinterest.com/username/boardname --output-dir ./my-research

# Also download all images
pinterest-export https://www.pinterest.com/username/boardname --cache-images

# Add Gemini Vision analysis per pin
pinterest-export https://www.pinterest.com/username/boardname --vision

# Increase Gemini analysis parallelism
pinterest-export https://www.pinterest.com/username/boardname --vision --vision-concurrency 10

# Scrape only (no files written)
pinterest-export https://www.pinterest.com/username/boardname --no-export

# Limit to first N pins
pinterest-export https://www.pinterest.com/username/boardname --limit 50

Output formats

board.json

Structured metadata for every pin:

{
  "board": "username/boardname",
  "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/...",
  "scraped_at": "2026-03-03T04:22:00Z",
  "pin_count": 87,
  "pins": [
    {
      "id": "123456789",
      "title": "Minimal packaging concept",
      "description": "Clean kraft paper with letterpress...",
      "link": "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/...",
      "image_url": "https://i.pinimg.com/...",
      "board_url": "https://www.pinterest.com/username/boardname/"
    }
  ]
}

board.md

LLM-optimised Markdown — ready to paste into Claude, GPT, or any AI tool as context for design research, mood board analysis, or trend detection.

Cached images

When --cache-images is set, all pin images are downloaded to a local cache directory and referenced by their Pinterest image ID. Subsequent exports reuse cached images.

Vision metadata

When --vision is enabled (with GEMINI_API_KEY or GOOGLE_API_KEY set), each pin is enriched with:

• vision_description
• vision_tags
• vision_colors
• vision_style
• vision_mood

Features

• Scrapes public Pinterest boards via Playwright (handles infinite scroll)
• Rich live progress UI: real-time pin count + image download progress bar
• JSON export with full structured metadata
• Markdown export optimised for LLM context windows
• Optional Gemini Flash (gemini-2.0-flash) analysis per pin
• Local image cache with concurrent downloads
• --limit flag for controlled scrapes
• --no-export flag for dry runs / in-memory use

Roadmap

• #6 Theme clustering across boards
• #7 HTML gallery generator
• #11 Config file support (.pinterest-export.toml)
• #12 Watch mode / incremental exports

Development

git clone https://github.com/brtdwchtr/pinterest-export
cd pinterest-export
uv sync
playwright install chromium
uv run pytest tests/

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

License

MIT