Why Download Pinterest Pins, Videos, and Idea Pins with Ai2Done?
Pinterest is the visual search engine where 537M monthly users plan weddings, kitchen renovations, holiday meals, ecommerce purchases, and capsule wardrobes. For interior designers, ecommerce merchandisers, brand mood-board builders, and wedding planners, pinning is research and shopping rolled together — but Pinterest's UI deliberately discourages saving outside the platform. There's no "download" button on a standard Pin (the official option is "Save" to one of your own boards), and Idea Pins (Pinterest's TikTok-style multi-page format) have no save option at all. The user base of a Pinterest downloader is overwhelmingly professional: interior designers building physical client presentation boards, ecommerce brand managers collecting competitor product photography for category audits, social media strategists archiving their own brand's published pins because Pinterest's analytics don't preserve the visual itself. Ai2Done's Pinterest downloader handles three pin types: standard image pins (return original-quality JPG/PNG), video pins (return MP4 in original resolution, typically 1080×1920 vertical), and Idea Pins (return a ZIP with every page exported in display order). Inputs accepted: pinterest.com/pin/<id> permalinks, pin.it short links (from the in-app share menu), and country-domain variants (pinterest.co.uk, pinterest.de, pinterest.com.au — Pinterest serves the same pin from many country TLDs). Two important platform notes: (1) Pinterest aggressively serves WebP variants of pins for bandwidth; we download the original-format file when available rather than a WebP re-encode. (2) The board attribution on a pin is the user who pinned it — not necessarily the original photographer. For licensing, always trace through to the source URL listed on the pin detail page.
How to download a Pinterest pin, video pin, or Idea Pin
- Open the pin on pinterest.com or in the mobile app, tap the share menu and choose Copy link (you'll get a pin.it short link or a pinterest.com/pin/<id> permalink). Country-domain variants (pinterest.co.uk, pinterest.de, etc.) work equally well.
- Paste the link. The tool detects pin type automatically — image, video, or Idea Pin. For Idea Pins you'll see thumbnails of every page in display order. For standard pins the original-resolution file is fetched (not a WebP re-encode).
- Download. Single pins return one file; Idea Pins return a ZIP named `pinterest_idea_{pinid}.zip` with pages numbered to preserve narrative order. Save the pin's source URL (visible on the pin detail page) in your DAM alongside the file — that's the actual creator's attribution chain.