pinterest-downloader

Download all images/videos from Pinterest user/board/section.

Some features:

• Accept input of /username/, /username/boardname/, /username/boardname/section, pin/PinID
• Accept input of URL link.
• Able download sections of boards of username.
• High resolution.
• Error tolerance. Try second resolution if first resolution error.
• Able download both image and video.
• Multi-threads when download images.
• Media Filename naming in PinID_Title_Description_[Date].Ext meaningful form. With PinID, you can visit https://www.pinterest.com/pin/[PinID] in web browser and get more details in log file (PinID without details will not log).
• Media Filename truncate to ... fit maximum filename length automatically. -c to cut if you prefer.
• Log PinID, Title, Description, Link, Metadata, [Date] to log-pinterest-downloader.log file since media filename can't fit.
• Unique board/log name with timestamp options.
• Proxies options.
• Speed up existing folder update without re-fetch all pages.

Requirements:

$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt 

Usage:

$ python3 pinterest-downloader.py --help
usage: pinterest-downloader.py [-h] [-d DIR] [-j THREAD_MAX] [-c CUT] [-bt]
                            [-lt] [-f] [-es]
                            [path]

Download ALL board/section from 🅿️interest by username, username/boardname,
username/boardname/section or link. Support image and video. Filename compose
of PinId_Title_Description_Date.Ext. PinId always there while the rest is
optional. If filename too long will endswith ... and you can check details in
log-pinterest-downloader.log file.

positional arguments:
  path                  Pinterest username, or username/boardname, or
                        username/boardname/section, or relevant link( /pin/
                        may include created time ).

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DIR, --dir DIR     Specify folder path/name to store. Default is
                        "images".
  -j THREAD_MAX, --job THREAD_MAX
                        Specify maximum threads when downloading images.
                        Default is number of processors on the machine,
                        multiplied by 5.
  -c CUT, --cut CUT     Specify maximum length of
                        "_TITLE_DESCRIPTION_DATE"(exclude ...) in filename.
  -bt, --board-timestamp
                        Suffix board directory name with unique timestamp.
  -lt, --log-timestamp  Suffix log-pinterest-downloader.log filename with
                        unique timestamp. Default filename is log-pinterest-
                        downloader.log. Note: Pin id without
                        Title/Description/Link/Metadata/Created_at will not
                        write to log.
  -f, --force           Force re-download even if image already exist.
                        Normally used with -rs
  -rs, --re-scrape      Default is only fetch new images since latest Pin ID
                        image to speed up update process. This option disable
                        this behavior and re-scrape all, use it when you feel
                        missing images somewhere(caused by reorder).
  -es, --exclude-section
                            Exclude sections if download from username or board.
  -ps HTTPS_PROXY, --https-proxy HTTPS_PROXY
                        Set proxy for https.
  -p HTTP_PROXY, --http-proxy HTTP_PROXY
                        Set proxy for http.

Example Usage:

$ python3 pinterest-downloader.py # Prompt for insert path. Note: Only support python 3, not python 2
$ export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8; python3 pinterest-downloader.py # If you get "'gbk' codec can't encode character" error
$ python3 pinterest-downloader.py https://www.pinterest.com/antonellomiglio/computer/ 
$ python3 pinterest-downloader.py https://www.pinterest.com/antonellomiglio/computer/ -d comp
$ python3 pinterest-downloader.py -d comp https://www.pinterest.com/antonellomiglio/computer/ # or path in last
$ python3 pinterest-downloader.py https://www.pinterest.com/antonellomiglio/computer/ -bt -lt -d comp -f -rs # various options
$ python3 pinterest-downloader.py https://www.pinterest.com/antonellomiglio/computer/ -c 40 # Default already good enough
$ python3 pinterest-downloader.py https://www.pinterest.com/antonellomiglio/computer/ -j 666 # Default already fast enough
$ python3 pinterest-downloader.py https://www.pinterest.com/Foodrecipessmith/food-recipes/ -ps "socks4://123.123.123.123:12345" -p "socks4://123.123.123.123:12345" # set proxies
$ pin https://www.pinterest.com/antonellomiglio/computer/  # make alias/function in ~/.bash_aliases(or any shell startup script) to easier type
$ pin https://www.pinterest.com/Foodrecipessmith/ # Download all boards by username.
$ pin https://www.pinterest.com/Foodrecipessmith/food-recipes/ # Download all sections and images of boards. But _saved/_created/pins treat as username only.
$ pin https://www.pinterest.com/Foodrecipessmith/food-recipes/ -es # Exclude sections
$ pin https://www.pinterest.com/Foodrecipessmith/food-recipes/condiments/ # Download all images of section
$ pin https://www.pinterest.com/pin/819444094683773705/ # Download specific pin
$ pin Foodrecipessmith # Download by username with shortform instead of link
$ pin Foodrecipessmith/food-recipes # Download boards with shortform instead of link
$ pin Foodrecipessmith/food-recipes/condiments # Download section with shortform instead of link
$ pin pin/819444094683773705 # Download pin with shortform instead of link

Example Output:

xb@dnxb:~/Downloads/pinterest/pinterest-downloader$ python3 pinterest-downloader.py -d comp https://www.pinterest.com/antonellomiglio/computer/ 
[...] Getting all images in this board: computer ... [ 173 / ? ] [➕] Found 195 image/videos
Download into directory:  comp/antonellomiglio/Computer/
[✔] Downloaded: |##################################################| 100.0% Complete   
[i] Time Spent: 0:00:06
xb@dnxb:~/Downloads/pinterest/pinterest-downloader$