Jaime Ortega

pinrip

Pull full-resolution originals out of any Pinterest page.

Year
2026
Made for
Command line
State
shipped

Source

Point it at a pin, a board, a search, or a profile, and it saves the originals. Not the thumbnails Pinterest serves into the grid, the source files behind them.

It borrows your browser cookies so private boards work, filters promoted pins out of search results, and names files so a folder of five hundred images is still navigable a month later.

I built it because I keep visual references by the thousand and I need to read the type in them.

How to use it

Clone it, put it on your PATH, then point it at any Pinterest URL.

  1. Terminal 
    git clone https://github.com/JaimeOrtegaxyz/pinrip.git
cd pinrip && npm install
npx playwright install chromium
npm link

  2. Then give it a pin, a board, a search or a profile.

    Terminal 
    pinrip https://www.pinterest.com/<board>

pinrip login reads the browser cookie database through the sqlite3 CLI, which ships with macOS. If Claude Code or Codex is on the machine, npm install also drops in a /pinrip skill.

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