The supported way to get your Pinterest data is Pinterest's own data export, requested from your account settings, which sends you an archive of your boards, pins and profile information. For a handful of individual images, saving them one at a time from the pin page works fine. Third-party bulk board downloaders ex
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Joe Nyambura
Founder & operator, Pinners Haven · August 18, 2026
The supported way to get your Pinterest data is Pinterest's own data export, requested from your account settings, which sends you an archive of your boards, pins and profile information. For a handful of individual images, saving them one at a time from the pin page works fine. Third-party bulk board downloaders exist and we don't recommend them, because they scrape Pinterest in ways its terms prohibit and because most pins are somebody else's copyrighted work regardless of how you obtain the file.
That last point is the one worth sitting with, and it's the reason this article is shorter and blunter than most on this keyword.
Method 1: Pinterest's data export
The right route if you want your account's contents, whether for backup, migration or because you're closing the account.
Open Pinterest Settings.
Find the privacy and data section.
Request a data export / copy of your data.
Confirm via the email Pinterest sends.
Wait. Processing takes time, often up to a few days.
Download the archive from the link, which expires.
You get a structured archive of your account: boards, the pins you saved, and profile data. It's the complete, supported answer for your own content.
Method 2: save individual images
For a handful of images, open the pin and save the image through your browser or the app's save-to-device option where available.
Fine for a few. Tedious for hundreds, which is exactly why people go looking for bulk tools.
Method 3: bulk downloaders — why we're not listing them
Search this topic and you'll find browser extensions and websites offering to download an entire board in one click. We're not going to recommend any of them, for four reasons:
They scrape. Pinterest's developer guidelines prohibit "any automated means or form of scraping or data extraction to access information from Pinterest, except as expressly permitted." A bulk board downloader is precisely that.
Extensions want deep access. Anything that reads a board while you're signed in has access to your session. That's a lot of trust for a convenience tool.
Many are unsafe. This category has a long history of ad injection, redirects and worse.
It doesn't solve the actual problem, which is rights, not file transfer.
If you're determined, that's your call. We'd rather tell you why we won't help than pretend the risk isn't there.
The part that actually matters: you don't own what you downloaded
This is the section most articles on this keyword skip entirely.
A pin is usually a link to someone else's work. A photographer's image, a brand's product shot, an artist's illustration. Downloading the file changes nothing about who owns it.
What that means practically:
Use
Generally fine?
Personal reference, offline, private
Yes
Your own uploaded pins
Yes, they're yours
Reposting to your own social accounts
No
Using in a client presentation
No, not without permission
Printing to sell
No
Training a model on them
No
Using as your own pin creative
No
Pinterest also operates a copyright reporting process, and rights holders use it.
If you want images you can actually use, licence them properly, commission them, or make your own. "I found it on Pinterest" has never been a licence, and it's a particularly weak position given that the original creator is usually one click away.
Better answers, depending on what you actually want
"I want to keep this inspiration." Use secret boards. They stay in your account, they're private, and no download is needed. How to make a Pinterest board covers the privacy setting and when a secret board is the right container.
"I'm worried about losing my account." Run the data export periodically. That's what it's for.
"I want an offline mood board for a client." Screenshot the board for reference and licence the images you actually intend to use. Turning a Pinterest mood board into a usable brief is the method that survives handing it to someone else. Mood boards for internal reference are a different thing from published work, but the distinction disappears the moment it ships.
"I'm moving to another platform." Data export, then re-upload only what you own.
"I want the images for a project." Go to the source. Most pins link to a page where the image can be licensed or the creator contacted.
Frequently asked questions
Can you download an entire Pinterest board at once?
Through Pinterest, only via a full data export of your own account, which includes your boards. There's no official one-click board download, and third-party tools that offer it work by scraping, which Pinterest's terms prohibit.
How do I export my Pinterest data?
Request it in Settings under the privacy and data section, confirm by email, and download the archive when Pinterest notifies you. It can take a few days and the download link expires.
Is it legal to download Pinterest images?
Saving an image for private reference is generally low risk. Reusing, republishing or selling it is a copyright matter, and the rights belong to the original creator regardless of where you found it.
Are Pinterest board downloader extensions safe?
We'd avoid them. They require access to your signed-in session, they scrape in ways Pinterest's terms prohibit, and this category has a poor safety record.
Can I download someone else's Pinterest board?
Technically people do, via scrapers. It isn't permitted by Pinterest's terms and it doesn't give you any right to use the contents. If you want the images, contact the creator or licence them from the source.
Will Pinterest ban me for downloading pins?
Saving occasional images isn't the risk. Running automated tools against Pinterest is, since its guidelines prohibit scraping and testing its systems.
What happens to my pins if I delete my account?
They go. Run a data export first if you want a copy, and note that deleting boards deletes their pins, which Pinterest says can still gain engagement long after publication.
Export your own, licence everyone else's
If it's your account, Pinterest gives you a supported export and you should use it periodically regardless.
If it's someone else's board, the honest answer is that no download tool solves the problem you actually have, which is that you don't have permission to use the images. The creator is usually one click away, and asking works more often than people expect.
