{"id":10931,"date":"2024-04-07T12:47:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T17:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/?p=10931"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T18:24:02","slug":"archive-pinterest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/archive-pinterest\/","title":{"rendered":"How to archive your Pinterest account to your hard drive (relatively) quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17947 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_pinterest.png\" alt=\"Pinterest logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"198\">UPDATE 2025-04-04: This no longer works. Use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfdownloader.xyz\/\">WFDownloader<\/a> (although the dev is awfully prickly) and follow the instructions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"separator\">\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/p>\n<p>And I do mean relative, but for a while, I was doing it one image at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, how you organize your hard drive is your business, but I created folders and mimicked my board names.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17945\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_basilisk.png\" alt=\"Basilisk logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"198\">First, download and install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basilisk-browser.org\">Basilisk browser<\/a>. This operation is the only thing I use Basilisk for.<\/p>\n<p>Second, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/pin4ever.com\">Pin4Ever plugin page<\/a> and install it. As stated, this is a plugin, and it runs only on Basilisk. Pin4Ever has a trial run before it becomes a paid service, but I decided to pay for a whole year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17946 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_pin4ever.png\" alt=\"Pin4Ever\" width=\"200\" height=\"170\">If you decide to run it once to get all your pins, it will take FORever. It gives you one download folder and dumps them all in there. #protip Take the time to create your folders on your hard drive and download one board at a time from Pin4Ever because it won\u2019t sort them for you once the pins are downloaded.<\/p>\n<p>I have a \u201cfaves\u201d board on Pinterest because they took away \u201clikes.\u201d Assholes. Anyway, I\u2019m now meticulous about sorting and filing my pins because I want to maintain the correlation between Pinterest and my hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>So every once in a while, I will back up my \u201cfaves\u201d board, then sort them accordingly on both Pinterest and my hard drive. That way I keep up with the backup. This is also why I decided to pay $24.99 for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike a lot of people, I only have about 20,000 pins. With my Pinterest archive on my hard drive now, I put random pretty pictures into it instead of bothering with Pinterest. I don\u2019t doubt Pinterest will someday come for my account, but I\u2019ll be damned if I sit there and let them take away my carefully curated pictures.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t back up links or web pages (e.g., recipes). It just backs up the pictures, including gifs.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that is helpful. It\u2019s saved me a lot of anxiety, so I thought I\u2019d share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 2025-04-04: This no longer works. Use WFDownloader (although the dev is awfully prickly) and follow the instructions. \u2605\u2605\u2605 And I do mean relative, but for a while, I was doing it one image at a time. Now, how you organize your hard drive is your business, but I created folders and mimicked my board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10931"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23887,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931\/revisions\/23887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}