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Automate Pinterest

Run your Pinterest account on a routine: publish one Pin a day from a queue of images, see which Pins earned saves and clicks, watch your follower count and keep a monthly copy of every board. Explain the routine to your assistant in plain words, look over the steps it proposes, and from then on it runs by itself.

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Monday at 8am, email me my 5 best Pinterest Pins from last week by saves and outbound clicks, and suggest 3 new Pin ideas based on them.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Pinterest

A steady posting queue, weekly performance with ideas for what to pin next, follower movement and a CSV backup of your boards. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
WeeklyAI

Get your top Pins and new ideas every Monday

Each week you see the five Pins with the most saves and clicks, plus suggestions for what to pin next.

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Weekly

Track your Pinterest followers each week

A weekly email gives your follower total and the change since the last one.

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Daily

Publish one Pin a day from your queue

Your board gets a new Pin every day at the same time, taken from the next image in your list.

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Monthly

Back up your boards and Pins every month

On the 1st you receive a CSV of every board and Pin with titles, links and image URLs.

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Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Pinterest, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Pinterest automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Pinterest should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every day at 10, publish one Pin from my product images with an AI-written title and description, never repeating a product within 30 days.

Every day, publish the next row from my Pins sheet in Google Sheets with its image link, title and board, then mark it Posted.

Every Monday, add last week's Pinterest impressions and saves per Pin to my Pinterest sheet in Google Sheets and email me the top 5 through Gmail.

Beyond chat

Have Pinterest work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Pinterest to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Pinterest

Pinterest is connected through an app you register in Pinterest's developer portal, which needs a business account. ClickRuntime never connects through an app of its own, so you hold the credentials and pick the account it acts for.

Pinterest

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  1. At developers.pinterest.com/apps, choose Connect app from your business account and wait for the approval email.
  2. Set the redirect URL to https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  3. Use the scopes boards:read, boards:write, pins:read, pins:write and user_accounts:read.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Pinterest and enter your app ID and secret.

Good to know

Pinterest limits that affect automations

  • New apps start on Trial access. Pins and boards created on Trial go to Pinterest's sandbox and are visible only to you, so a posting queue only goes public after Pinterest upgrades your app to Standard access.
  • Standard access needs an upgrade review from Pinterest, which includes a demo video of your app.
  • Refresh tokens last 60 days and are renewed each time they are used, so a connection that runs regularly stays signed in.
  • Board backups go out as email attachments, so very large accounts can hit attachment size limits.

FAQ

Questions about automating Pinterest

What can ClickRuntime do in my Pinterest account?
Whatever the scopes on your app allow: read your boards, Pins and account analytics, read your follower count, and create Pins on boards you choose.
Why aren't my scheduled Pins showing up publicly?
Your app is probably still on Trial access, where new Pins land in the sandbox. Once Pinterest grants Standard access, the same automation publishes to your real boards.
Where does the daily Pin queue come from?
A list you provide, such as image URLs with titles and links in a sheet. Each day the next item becomes a Pin on the board you named, and it is taken off the list.
Is AI part of the Pinterest automations?
Only in the weekly analytics email, where it suggests new Pin ideas from your top performers. That uses the AI bundled with each ClickRuntime plan, so you don't add an AI key. The queue, follower count and backup need no AI.
Is this a Pinterest connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Pinterest data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Pinterest while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Pinterest event.

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