Weekly

Track your Pinterest followers each week

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

Runs: Weekly
Apps: Pinterest
AI: Not needed
Access: user_accounts:read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Friday, email me my Pinterest follower count and how much it went up or down since last Friday.

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

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A creator or small brand on Pinterest wants to know whether the effort is paying off, and follower count is the simplest measure. But Pinterest does not email you a clean weekly change, and checking manually produces numbers you forget a week later. Without a baseline, you cannot tell whether last month's new board helped or the audience stalled.

Once a week, your Pinterest follower_count is read and compared with the figure saved the previous week. An email then states the current count and the change, whether it is up or down. Over time, you build a weekly record of audience growth without lifting a finger. It also suits anyone setting growth goals for a quarter.

It is useful for solo creators, small shops and agencies who report audience growth to clients.

What you get out of it

See whether your work is paying off
A weekly change in followers shows if a new content approach is helping. It ties effort to an outcome rather than leaving you to guess from impressions. Over a few months, the weekly figures show what the effort has achieved.
A baseline for decisions
Knowing you gain twenty followers in a typical week makes a jump or a dip meaningful. You can judge a campaign against your own normal rather than someone else's benchmark.
Spot losses early
A weekly decline appears in your inbox rather than going unnoticed. You can look for a cause, such as a broken link or an irrelevant batch of Pins, while it is still recent.
Client reporting made easy
Agencies can copy the weekly line into a status email. Clients see the trend without a separate report, and you spend less time pulling numbers. Fewer manual checks mean fewer errors and screenshots.
A history in your inbox
Weekly emails accumulate into a record you can search. At year end, you can see growth month by month without reconstructing it from screenshots. Looking back at a whole year takes seconds, not an afternoon.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Once a week, ClickRuntime reads your Pinterest follower count.
It compares it with the number saved from last week.
You get an email with your current follower count and the change since last week.

Before it runs live

Connect Pinterest

What you get

RunsWeekly

Track your Pinterest followers each weektoday, 9:00Succeeded

Email · Pinterest followersPinterest followers: 8,912 (+124 since last Friday)

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. 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.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Pinterest steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

new_follower_alert_weekly_count.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, state, notify, http, credentials

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    auth = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("pinterest", "main")}
    now = http.get("https://api.pinterest.com/v5/user_account", headers=auth).json()["follower_count"]
    last = state.get("followers")
    change = "" if last is None else f" ({now - last:+,} since last Friday)"
    notify.email_me(f"Pinterest followers: {now:,}{change}", f"You have {now:,} followers on Pinterest{change}.")
    state.set("followers", now)
    return {"followers": now}

FAQ

Common questions

Is this the same as a notification for each new follower?

No. It reports a weekly count and the change, not each person. If you want to know the names of followers, Pinterest does not expose that through its API, so only the total can be tracked.

What does it show in the first week?

The first run has nothing to compare against, so it records the starting number and reports the current count. From the second week onward, the email includes the change from the week before. Nothing is lost by starting late.

Can I track a business account and a personal one?

Yes, each account would use its own connection and its own saved number. Your AI assistant can set up a second copy so both appear in your inbox, labelled by account name. The accounts are tracked separately.

What permissions does it need?

user_accounts:read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (weekly). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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