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🎉 New Feature Launch: 📥 CSV Downloads For Pinterest Pins

🎉 New Feature Launch: 📥 CSV Downloads For Pinterest Pins

11 June 2025

We’re thrilled to introduce a powerful new feature in Pin Generator: you can now download your pins as a CSV file in two convenient formats!

Download for Pinterest Native Scheduler 📅

Ideal for users who want to take advantage of Pinterest’s built-in scheduler—great for warming up brand-new accounts. This CSV format aligns perfectly with Pinterest’s Bulk Create Pins tool and includes essential fields:

  • Title
  • Media URL (image or video, ending in .jpg, .png or .mp4)
  • Pinterest board (and optional section)
  • Thumbnail (required for video pins)
  • Description (≤ 500 characters)
  • Link
  • Publish date (ISO format)
  • Keywords (comma‑separated)

You can upload this format via:
Pinterest > Settings > Bulk create Pins, then upload your .csv or .txt file

📘 Best Practices from Pinterest’s guidelines:

  • Up to 200 pins per batch
  • Titles ≤ 100 characters, descriptions ≤ 500
  • Schedule pins up to 30 days in advance via native scheduler

Bulk Pin Creation Tutorials

Pin Generator tutorial -> How to How To Generate Pinterest Pins From Any CSV File

Pinterest tutorials -> How to bulk upload pins using Pinterest’s native scheduler

Pinterest tutorial -> how to schedule a pin with Pinterest’s native scheduler.

Download for Pin Generator (Internal Format) 💾

Designed for archiving your pin projects or re-uploading to Pin Generator later. This CSV includes:

  • title, description, url, URLText, altText
  • selectedBoards
  • mediaUrl
  • image1, image2, image3, …

Perfect for resurrecting past pin batches or creating backups.

🧭 Why CSV Exports Are a Game-Changer

  1. Flexible Scheduling with Pinterest
    Use the native CSV to warm up new accounts organically and schedule consistent content.
  2. Easy Backup & Storage
    Save your pin sets anytime and re-import later into Pin Generator without recreating assets.
  3. Full Compliance with Pinterest Specs
    Our export matches Pinterest’s bulk-upload template exactly, ensuring smooth uploads.

🚀 Best Practices for New Pinterest Accounts

  1. Warm-up with the Pinterest Native Scheduler (a recommended precaution)
    Many experienced Pinterest users advise starting with a period of lower activity—pinning a handful of posts daily—using Pinterest’s native scheduler.

    This isn’t a requirement, but rather a precaution that may help prevent your new account from being incorrectly flagged by Pinterest’s spam detection systems. There is no official rule from Pinterest mandating a warm-up, yet this practice is widely recommended by users as a safety measure. Pinterest’s engineering blog made some remarks in this regard.

    Suggested approach:
    • Start with 5–10 pins per day, spaced over several days or weeks.
    • Gradually increase volume as the account demonstrates consistent, varied engagement.
    • Keep activity moderate to indicate that your behavior is organic and help avoid temporary rate limits or automated flags.

2. Use High-Quality Media

  • Ensure your pins are of a high quality and provide useful images and text for users.
  • Publicly hosted media URLs (ending in .jpg, .png, .mp4) are required.
  • Videos also need a valid “Thumbnail” column in the CSV

3. Craft Rich Metadata

4. Schedule Carefully

  • Set scheduled dates up to 30 days ahead via the native scheduler or one-at-a-time uploads
  • It has been reported that the limit for pins in a bulk CSV upload to Pinterest are between 100 and 200 pins.

5. Troubleshoot Common Errors

Some users report the Pinterest native scheduler giving them some issues.

  • Ensure column names like Media URL match exactly Pinterest’s spec (avoid “Media file URL”),
  • Try alternate browsers or incognito if uploads fail ,
  • Lower upload batch sizes if errors persist. (try under 100 pins)

📝 How to Get Started

  1. Generate pins in Pin Generator.
  2. Click Download CSV and choose your format:
    • Pinterest Scheduler → Upload to Pinterest’s Bulk Create tool
    • Pin Generator → Save locally or re-upload later
  3. For Scheduler CSV: go to Pinterest > Settings > Bulk create Pins & upload CSV

🔗 Further Reading & Resources