How to Download Pinterest Videos and Images
Pinterest is built for collecting ideas, but its boards only work while you are online and signed in. Saving a pin to your device is useful for mood boards, client references and offline planning — as long as you respect who made it.
Key takeaways
- Every pin has a share link you can copy.
- Video pins and image pins are saved with different tools.
- The full pin URL is more reliable than a short link.
- Saved pins are for reference, not for republishing.
How pin links work
Each pin lives at its own address. In the app or on the website, the share menu gives you a link you can copy. Pinterest often shortens these to a pin.it address, which redirects to the full pin URL.
Both normally work, but if a short link fails, open the pin in a browser and copy the full address from the address bar instead.
Saving a video or an image
The steps are the same for both: copy the pin's link, paste it into the downloader, check the preview to confirm it is the right pin, and save the file. The CodeLove Downloader has a Pinterest Video Downloader for video pins and a Pinterest Image Downloader for image pins.
If you are collecting several pins for one project, the multi-link mode lets you paste a list of links and fetch them together instead of one at a time.
What you can and cannot save
Downloaders work with public pins. Pins on secret boards and content that requires you to be signed in cannot be fetched, and that is by design.
Using saved pins responsibly
A pin usually belongs to the photographer, designer or creator who made it, not to the person who pinned it. Saving it for your own reference, a private mood board or a client conversation is a reasonable use.
Republishing it as your own, or using it commercially without permission, is not. When in doubt, follow the pin back to its source and ask.
Gowtham
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