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.
- Runs
- Daily
- Apps
- AI
- Not needed
- Access
- pins:write, boards:read
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at noon, take the next row from my 'Pin queue' sheet and create a Pin on my 'Spring recipes' board using its image URL, title and link.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Posting consistently on Pinterest is what drives results, but doing it by hand every day is a chore that gets skipped. A blogger writes ten posts in a burst, creates ten Pin images, then forgets to publish them over the next two weeks. Seasonal Pins miss their window, and the account goes quiet for days at a time, which hurts reach.
Each day, the next item in your queue is taken from the list, a Pin is created from it with its image, title, description and link, and the item is removed. The queue shrinks as Pins are published, so you can prepare a month of content in one sitting and let it go out one a day.
It suits bloggers, small shops and designers who batch their content and want steady posting without logging in daily.
What you get out of it
Consistent posting without daily effort
One Pin each day keeps the account active even in busy weeks. The steady rhythm tends to perform better than bursts followed by long silences. The account stays alive even during holidays, illness and launch weeks when you cannot post.
Batch the work once
Preparing images and descriptions together is faster than context switching daily. You spend an afternoon on content and then spend the next month on other tasks. Creative work flows better when you are not interrupted every morning to publish a single image.
Seasonal content lands on time
Queue items in the order that suits the calendar and they publish when relevant. A holiday Pin goes live in the right week rather than weeks late. Planning ahead with the seasons, from back-to-school to the holidays, becomes natural.
One Pin a day avoids spam
Spreading Pins across days looks natural and avoids dumping a dozen at once. Your followers see fresh content gradually instead of a flood that can be ignored. Measured, steady output tends to hold attention better than bursts.
Know when the queue runs low
As the list shrinks you see how many days of content remain. That is a clear prompt to prepare more before the account runs out of material. That prompt keeps the pipeline full without you having to count items by hand.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every day, ClickRuntime takes the next Pin from your queue: an image, a title and a link.
It publishes the Pin to the board you chose.
That Pin is removed from the queue, so tomorrow brings the next one.
Before it runs live
- Connect Pinterest
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
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
from clickruntime import on_trigger, state, notify, http, credentials
SHEET_ID = "1AbCdEfGhIjKlMnOp" # your 'Pin queue' sheet
BOARD_ID = "987654321012345678" # your 'Spring recipes' board
@on_trigger
def run(event):
google = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("google", "work")}
rows = http.get(f"https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/{SHEET_ID}/values/Pin queue!A2:C", headers=google).json().get("values", [])
index = state.get("next_row") or 0
if index >= len(rows):
notify.email_me("Pin queue is empty", "Add rows (image URL, title, link) to keep daily Pins going.")
return {"posted": False}
image_url, title, link = (rows[index] + ["", "", ""])[:3]
pin = http.post("https://api.pinterest.com/v5/pins", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("pinterest", "main")}, json={
"board_id": BOARD_ID, "title": title, "link": link,
"media_source": {"source_type": "image_url", "url": image_url},
})
pin.raise_for_status()
state.set("next_row", index + 1)
return {"pin": pin.json()["id"], "title": title}FAQ
Common questions
Where do I keep the queue?
What happens when the queue is empty?
Does the Pin go to a specific board?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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