Pinterest Image Downloader — save pins, boards, stories, and user profiles

Pinterest is one of the major social media platforms where you can find lots of interesting images, animated GIFs, and short videos. Each Pinterest image is called a pin and can be saved in a collection called a Pinterest board. While Pinterest makes it very easy to view pins and boards, it doesn’t provide a streamlined way to download them. In this case, you’ll have to look for a Pinterest image downloader. In this article, I explain a few ways to download images from Pinterest whether you are trying to download a pin, board, story, or user profile.

Methods to download Pinterest images

A) Download Pinterest images using your browser

To download Pinterest images directly from your browser, you’ll have to install a browser extension. If you’re using Chrome, I recommend installing “Image Downloader”. It is a popular Chrome extension that can download images from many sites including Pinterest. It has a number of useful features such as filtering images by width or height, filtering by URL text, saving to a custom subfolder, and renaming the images. To download images using this extension, follow these steps below:

1. Open Chrome browser and install Image Downloader by clicking the “Add to Chrome” button. Once installed correctly, you will notice the Image Downloader icon beside your browser address bar.

2. Now open the Pinterest page you want to download images from whether it is a pin, board, or story.

A sample pinterest board

3. Click on the Image Downloader icon on the toolbar.

4. Select the images you want to download. You have a few other options like filtering by URL, image size, saving to subfolders, and renaming files.

5. Click “Download” and it will start downloading the images. Notice that each one is downloaded one after the other.

6. Once finished, open your file explorer to view the saved images.

Other notable Pinterest image downloaders for Chrome are PinDown and DownAlbum.

Using the above chrome extension has the advantage that everything is done within your browser and so there is no need to install another application on your operating system. It has the disadvantage that it doesn’t detect or download videos. Also, you’ll have to scroll down the page to load all the images of a large board since it won’t do that for you.

B) Download Pinterest images using a third-party application

There are third-party applications that have special support for downloading from Pinterest. One of such tools is WFDownloader App. It can download Pinterest pins, boards, stories, and entire user profiles in their original resolutions and will also download videos for you. All you need to do is copy and paste the link of the Pinterest page into the application. Everything will be downloaded into their respective subfolders. Follow these steps below:

1. Download WFDownloader App for your operating system if you don’t already have it. It’s free.
2. In your browser, open the Pinterest page whose images or videos you want to download whether it is a pin, board, board section, story, or user profile.
3. Copy the URL/link of the page from your browser.
4. Open WFDownloader App and click the blue “Add” button to add the link and provide a save folder.
5. Click “Confirm” and the link search will begin. In some cases, you might get an error message that you need to import cookies from your browser for private boards. After doing that, the search will work correctly.
6. Once the search is completed, click “Confirm” and the batch will be added for you.
7. Now click the “Start” button to start downloading the Pinterest images.

A reason to consider using an external application is that they do not have the restrictions that browsers place on extensions and so can produce better results. For example, WFDownloader App will automatically save a board using its name and will rename all the pins to their IDs so that you can easily track where each pin was gotten from. It has the disadvantage that for pins or boards that are private, you will need to import cookies from your browser since it has no access to your browser session. For a more detailed tutorial with many illustrative images, see how to download Pinterest images and videos using WFDownloader App.

Conclusion

If you are looking for a Pinterest Image Downloader and want a browser-only solution, try Image Downloader, otherwise, try WFDownloader App if you’re looking for a third-party application that can download Pinterest images.