KeepPin Blog

The twenty questions people ask most about saving Pinterest videos, images and GIFs, each answered in a few sentences with a link to the full explanation.

KeepPin applies per-IP limits per minute so it cannot be turned into a bulk scraper. What a 429 response means, who actually hits it, and what to do about it.

What the KeepPin extension will do, what it will never collect, why it shares a resolver with the website, why it is desktop only, and where development stands today.

Deleting a Pinterest account removes your boards for good. A triage method for saving what matters, starting with your own uploads, plus where to keep the backup.

Most Pinterest videos are portrait, so the MP4 you save is tall and narrow. What the dimensions really are, why it looks small on a desktop, and how to work with it.

A designer workflow for turning a Pinterest board into a local reference folder: full-resolution images, contact sheets, source credits and honest use.

Trimming, converting to GIF and extracting audio each treat a saved MP4 differently. Learn which steps are lossless, which re-encode, and how to keep the original safe.

A file naming scheme, a folder layout and a one-line credit log that keep hundreds of saved pins findable, plus advice on when to re-download instead of hoarding.

KeepPin takes one pin per request. A realistic desktop workflow for saving a board of 30 to 100 pins by hand, with a resumable URL list, naming and rate limits.

How teachers can keep Pinterest tutorial videos playing offline on shared classroom tablets, stay inside fair use, credit creators, and keep a lesson folder current.

A plain reading of Pinterest's Terms of Service: the licence you grant, limits on automated access, your rights over your uploads, and how that differs from copyright.

Why a Pinterest downloader needs to speak your language, how the 40 translations are organised by URL, and what changes in a right-to-left layout.

Pinterest reshapes its URLs, share sheet and page code from time to time. Here is what stays stable, how KeepPin adapts, and what to do when a link stops working.

Saving a Pinterest video for yourself and republishing it on another platform are different acts. Here is what changes legally, when reposting is fine, and how to ask.

Recipe pins disappear and kitchen wifi is unreliable. A weekly routine for saving the videos you actually cook, naming them by dish, and playing them at the stove.

Why a Pinterest video sometimes plays in a tab instead of saving, the HTTP header that decides, and the save fallback on iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows.

A silent Pinterest video is rarely a broken download. Learn the five causes, from muted uploads to silent GIF MP4s, and how to check whether a file has an audio track.

What a valid DMCA notice must contain, how to use Pinterest's takedown form, when to also notify KeepPin, and how counter-notices and false claims work.

Every Pinterest video pin has a poster frame stored as a still image. Here is when you want that instead of the video, how to save it, and what resolution to expect.

Secret boards, private accounts and login-only pins are invisible to a downloader that browses logged out. What that means, and your options for your own pins.

KeepPin download links are signed and stop working after five minutes. Here is what that message means, why the limit exists, and how to get your file.

Pinterest shows the same pin on dozens of country domains. Learn why only the pin ID matters, how KeepPin reads regional links, and what to copy when travelling.

pin.it links are the short addresses Pinterest hands out from its share sheet. Learn what they point to, how to expand them and how to download from one.

A Pinterest download has two phases, parsing and transfer, and each slows down for different reasons. Learn which one is stalling and what genuinely helps.

Credit is not permission, but it is where every respectful share starts. How to find the real creator, what to write, when a link back is enough, and how to ask.

Pinterest links come in many shapes, but only the pin ID matters. Learn to tell pins from boards, strip tracking clutter and find the right link on any device.

pinterest.com is the app and pinimg.com is the storage. How i.pinimg.com and v1.pinimg.com serve images and video, and why a downloader only talks to them.

A checklist of the nine reasons a Pinterest video refuses to download, from a copied board link to an expired download URL, with a fix for each one.

Pinterest streams video as HLS playlists of small segments, yet a good downloader hands you one MP4. Here is what an .m3u8 file is and where the MP4 comes from.

Pinterest transcodes every upload into fixed renditions, and 720p is the usual ceiling. Learn how to read a true resolution and why no downloader can add pixels.

Idea Pins are built from several pages while video pins are a single clip. Here is how each is structured, what a downloader can fetch and how to save both.

The four fair-use factors applied to real situations: personal reference, classroom use, commentary, reposting and commercial work. Plus when you should simply ask.

Some animated pins are real GIFs and some are silent MP4 videos in disguise. Learn how to tell them apart, which file you will get and how to play it anywhere.

Pinterest shows you a scaled preview, not the file that was uploaded. Here is how to get the original image, check its pixel size and handle tall infographics.

Pinterest does not burn logos into its video files. Here is why a source-file download stays clean, how re-recording tools add marks, and how to check a file.

No software to install. Copy the pin URL from the address bar, paste it into KeepPin, and learn where your browser puts the MP4, how to rename it and how to play it.

From the Pinterest share sheet to your Downloads folder and Gallery, with fixes for blocked downloads, data saver and moving clips to an SD card.

Saving a Pinterest video, Pinterest's terms, and what you do with the file afterwards are three separate questions. Here is how each one works in plain English.

Copy the link from the Pinterest app, paste it in Safari, and know exactly where the MP4 lands. Covers Files versus Photos, the download manager and the usual iOS snags.

A walk through the three requests behind every KeepPin download, why nothing is stored, what is and is not logged, and why a link only lasts five minutes.

Screen recording a Pinterest video re-encodes what your display shows, overlays included. Fetching the stored MP4 gives you the file itself. Here is why that matters.

Pinterest has no download button for video. Here is the one workflow that works on every phone, tablet and computer, what file you get, and what to check first.