How to Download an Entire Pinterest Board — 4 Methods That Work in 2026

Pinterest is built around boards, but it gives you no "download this board" button. You can save a single pin's image through the app, and you can request an export of your account data, but neither of those hands you a tidy folder of full-resolution files named after your board.

This guide walks through the four realistic ways to get a whole board onto your device in 2026, from the fully official route to the fully manual one. Each method has a different trade-off between speed, image quality, and how much of the board you can actually get. If you only need one pin, skip straight to our image download guide or video download guide instead.

First, Decide What You Actually Need

"Download a board" means different things to different people. Before picking a method, answer three questions:

Do you need original resolution? Pinterest serves several sizes of every image. Thumbnails are fine for a mood board; a print project needs the originals version.
Is it your board or someone else's? Your own boards can be exported officially. Other people's boards can only be saved pin by pin, and you should respect the copyright rules that apply to the original creators.
How many pins? Twenty pins is a five-minute manual job. Two thousand pins is a job for a script or an extension.

With those answers in hand, here's how the methods compare.

Method	Works on other people's boards	Full resolution	Includes videos	Effort
Pinterest data export	No (your account only)	Partial	No	Low
Browser extension	Yes	Yes	Depends	Low
One pin at a time with PinLoad	Yes	Yes	Yes	Medium to high
Pinterest API script	Your boards, or public boards with a token	Yes	Yes (URLs only)	High

Method 1: Pinterest's Official Data Export

If the board is yours, Pinterest can bundle your account data and email you a download link. This is the only method Pinterest itself supports, and it is the right choice if you are backing up your account before deleting it.

Steps on desktop:

Click your profile picture, then the arrow next to it, and open Settings.
Go to Privacy and data.
Under Request your data, click Request data and confirm.
Wait for the email. It usually arrives within a day, sometimes faster, and contains a link to a ZIP file.

What's inside: a set of files listing your boards and pins, with the pin image URLs, titles, descriptions, and the source links you saved them from. Depending on the export version, you get either the image files themselves or a list of links you still have to fetch.

Limits: the export covers only your account. It won't touch a board that someone else owns, even if you follow it. Videos are referenced as links, not shipped as MP4 files. And the ZIP is organised for data-portability compliance, not for browsing, so expect to spend some time sorting it.

If your export arrives as a list of URLs rather than files, you can paste each URL into PinLoad to fetch the original image, or use the script approach in Method 4 to fetch them in bulk.

Method 2: A Browser Extension

For boards that aren't yours, an extension is the fastest option. It runs inside your browser, scrolls the board, collects every pin's image address, and downloads the lot into a folder.

The PinLoad browser extension adds a download button on hover to every pin. On a board page, that means you can work through the grid in a single pass without opening each pin.

How to use it:

Install the extension from your browser's store and pin it to the toolbar.
Open the Pinterest board in a normal (non-private) tab.
Scroll slowly to the bottom so Pinterest loads every pin. Boards load in batches of roughly 25 to 50 pins, so a big board may take a minute.
Hover each pin and click the download icon, or use the extension's board mode if it offers one.

Tips that save time:

Set your browser to skip the "where do you want to save this?" prompt. In Chrome that's Settings → Downloads → Ask where to save each file before downloading, toggled off.
Create a dedicated folder before you start and point the download location at it.
If a board has videos, the extension will grab the poster image. For the actual video file you still need a downloader; see the video guide.

Before installing any extension, read our notes on what makes a downloader safe. Any extension that asks for permission to "read and change all your data on all websites" is asking for more than it needs to download images from Pinterest.

Method 3: One Pin at a Time with PinLoad

This is the slowest method but also the most reliable, and it works on every device including phones. It is what most people end up doing for boards of a few dozen pins.

Open the board and click a pin to open it.
Copy the pin URL. On desktop it's in the address bar; in the app, tap the share icon and choose Copy link. Our guide to copying Pinterest links covers every device.
Paste the URL into PinLoad and download. Images come through at original resolution and videos as MP4.
Go back to the board and repeat.

To speed this up on desktop, open every pin you want in a new tab first (Ctrl-click or Cmd-click each pin), then work through the tabs copying URLs. Batching the copy step from the download step feels faster than alternating between them.

For image-only boards, the dedicated Pinterest image downloader page skips the video detection step and is marginally quicker per pin. For GIF boards, use the GIF downloader so you get the animated file rather than a still frame.

Method 4: A Script Using the Pinterest API

If you're comfortable with a terminal, the Pinterest API v5 exposes a GET /boards/{board_id}/pins endpoint that returns every pin on a board along with its media URLs. Pinterest documents this in its developer reference. You need a developer app and an access token, and the token's permissions determine which boards you can read. Your own boards always work; public boards owned by others work with the appropriate scope.

A minimal workflow looks like this:

# 1. Fetch the pin list (paginated; follow the "bookmark" value until it's empty)
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://api.pinterest.com/v5/boards/$BOARD_ID/pins?page_size=100"

# 2. Extract the image URLs from the JSON response (the "originals" size)
# 3. Download each URL with curl or wget into a folder

The API returns structured data, so you get pin titles, descriptions, and source links alongside the images, which none of the other methods do as cleanly. The drawback is setup time: creating a developer app, going through OAuth, and writing the loop. For a one-off board, that overhead rarely pays off. For someone who archives boards regularly, it's the best option by a wide margin.

Note that Pinterest's API terms restrict what you can do with retrieved content, and rate limits apply. Read the developer terms before building anything you plan to run repeatedly.

Getting the Full-Resolution Version

Whichever method you use, check the image URL. Pinterest stores each image at several sizes, and the size is encoded in the path:

.../236x/... — small thumbnail
.../474x/... — grid size
.../736x/... — feed size
.../originals/... — the file as uploaded

An extension or script that returns 736x URLs is giving you compressed feed images. Replace 736x with originals in the URL and reload, and in almost every case you'll get the untouched upload. PinLoad does this substitution automatically, which is why images downloaded through it are usually larger than the ones you get from Pinterest's own save button. Our HD image guide goes deeper into how the size tiers work.

Organising a Downloaded Board

A few habits that make a downloaded board useful rather than a pile of pinload-1234.jpg files:

Rename by batch. On Mac, select the files in Finder, right-click, and choose Rename to apply a prefix like kitchen-ideas-. On Windows, select all, press F2, type a name, and Windows numbers them.
Keep the source list. If your method produced a CSV or JSON of pin URLs, save it next to the images. It's the only way to find the original creator later.
Check for duplicates. Boards frequently contain the same image pinned from different sources. A duplicate finder (both macOS and Windows have free ones) will trim a large board noticeably.

Legal and Etiquette Notes

Downloading a board doesn't change who owns the images on it. Pinterest's copyright policy and the rights of each original creator still apply. Saving a board for private reference, inspiration, or backup is the ordinary use case. Reposting the images elsewhere as your own, using them commercially, or selling them is not, and Pinterest processes takedown requests on behalf of creators regularly.

If you're saving a board specifically because you plan to reuse the content, read our copyright and fair-use guide first. It explains how to trace an image back to its creator and what kinds of reuse are generally fine.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I download a secret board?

Only if it's yours or you're a collaborator on it. Secret boards don't appear on public profiles and can't be opened by URL without access. Once you're viewing it, every method above works normally. See our secret boards guide for how they behave.

Does Pinterest notify the board owner when I download their pins?

No. Pinterest doesn't track or report downloads to board owners, and there's no view counter on boards that would reveal it either. Our privacy guide covers what Pinterest does and doesn't expose.

Why does the board show 400 pins but I only downloaded 250?

Pinterest lazy-loads boards and stops after a certain scroll depth on some accounts. Scroll to the very bottom, wait for the spinner to finish, and check the pin count again. Some pins are also section-nested: click into each section of the board separately, because sections load their own grids.

Can I download all boards from a profile at once?

Not with a single click. The data export (Method 1) covers all of your own boards. For someone else's profile, you have to handle each board separately.

Is there a limit to how many pins PinLoad will process?

No hard limit. It processes one URL at a time through the web interface, and you can submit as many as you like. The extension is the faster path if you're doing hundreds.