Connect Pinterest
A pin of the article's image, linking back to the article.
What this key lets us do. It lets us create pins on the board you choose. It cannot see your private boards or your messages.
Step by step
- Go to developers.pinterest.com and connect it to a Pinterest business account. Switching a personal account to business is free and takes a minute.
- Create an app and wait for it to be approved — Pinterest usually does this quickly for standard access.
- Generate an access token with the scopes pins:write and boards:read.
- Choose which board to pin to and copy its board id: open the board and take the long number from its web address.
Bold words are the exact buttons and menu names to look for. These are screens of other companies and they move them — if the layout does not match, searching that bold name in their own help usually finds where it went.
What to paste here
| Field | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Board ID | The long number in the board's web address |
| Access token | A long string beginning pina_ |
What usually goes wrong
- Pinterest refuses a pin with no image, so we do not send one. An article with no image is skipped for Pinterest and posted everywhere else — you are told which.
- A personal Pinterest account cannot use the API at all. It must be a business account.
Whatever you paste is encrypted the moment it arrives. It is never shown back to you and nobody here can read it — support sees a fingerprint like “ending 7f3a2c”, never the value.
Stuck? The help desk answers this exact question, and it is a real answer rather than a form. Open the help desk → If you would rather go to the source, read the official documentation: Pinterest: getting access