It’s easier than ever to save and organize the ideas you like from all over the web with the Save to Pinterest button. With just a few clicks, you can keep track of all the tasty recipes, style inspiration, DIY projects and other ideas you want to try. The Save to Pinterest button also makes it easy to find ideas similar to those you like. How to save a link Click the up in your browser Choose an image for your Pin Pick a board to save it to Save ideas from around the web with one click Map places to go When you’re out browsing the web and find a new place to visit, just save it to your travel board. Save recipes to make Ready to get cooking? Pull up one of the recipes you’ve saved from your favorite food sites.
Cindy writes: Ben, can you do this – download an archive of your Pinterest boards? I am terrified that all the hard work I have done on [my boards] will float off one day into cyberspace.
Hi Cindy! Well, bad news first: Unlike Google and Facebook, Pinterest doesn’t have an official, easy-to-use tool to download an archive of your Pinterest boards.
And while there are a few third-party services and apps that claim to download and/or back up your Pinterest boards, none of them does a wholly satisfying job of doing so. Downloadmyboard.com comes close, but it’s still too buggy for my taste.
With a little help from your web browser, you can save a “web archive” of any Pinterest board you wish.
That said, there is a handy tool that makes downloading an archive of your Pinterest boards a snap—and believe it or not, it’s (probably) sitting quietly in your favorite web browser.
What you’ll be doing, basically, is creating a “web archive” of your Pinterest board.
What’s a web archive, you ask? It’s (so-called) “local” version of a web page that sits on your hard drive.
When you open a web archive in your browser, it’ll look almost exactly like the original, “live” web page, complete with images and clickable links.
The archived page will open even without an Internet connection (although you’ll get a “You are not connected to the Internet” error if you try to click the links while offline), and it’ll remain intact on your hard drive even if the original page is altered, deleted or otherwise lost.
Best of all, downloading a web archive takes only a few clicks.
Here’s what you do…
- First, browse to the Pinterest board you’d like to save—yours or anyone else’s, for that matter. What happens next depends on the browser you’re using…
- With Safari on a Mac, click File, Save As, find the Format pull-down menu and select “Web Archive,” then click the Save button.
- Got Chrome? Click File (on a Mac) or right-click the web page (on a Windows PC), select “Save as…”, select “Webpage, Complete” in the “Save as type” menu, then click the Save button.
- For Internet Explorer and Firefox users, the process is almost the same as it is for Chrome: click File, “Save as…”, select “Webpage, Complete” in the “Save as type” menu, then click the Save button.
- All set? Find the web archive your downloaded (check your Downloads directory first), then drag it into your browser.
- Presto! The archived version of your Pinterest board should pop into view—and yes, it’ll open even without an Internet connection.
Note:
Keep in mind that the pins on Pinterest boards load as you scroll, and your browser’s “web archive” tool will only save the content that’s currently loaded on the page. In other words, if you’re trying to archive a lengthy Pinterest board, you may have to do a lot of scrolling to download a complete archive of even pin.
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Pinterest browser button (Pin It) on Google Chrome web browser.
If you are a regular user of Pinterest who likes to pin frequently and if you are using Google Chrome as your default browser while browsing the web, it might be a good idea to install Pinterest's browser button to quickly and easily pin the content that you would like to save to your Pinterest account and share with your followers.
The Pinterest browser button is developed and maintained by Pinterest, so there is nothing to worry about your privacy compared to using a third party browser extension that does a similar job. You can install the pin button and use it to pin the web pages, images and the like safely.
Installing Pinterest Browser Button in Chrome
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You can add a Pin It button to your Google Chrome browser simply by following the steps below:
Step 1: Open your Chrome browser.
Step 2: Go to Pinterest's browser button page at: https://about.pinterest.com/browser-button
The above page automatically detects your web browser and displays the corresponding button accordingly. In this case, when you visit it with Chrome browser, it will display the browser button for Google Chrome.
Step 3: Click the Get our browser button button. A small popup window like the following will be displayed.
The popup window asks your permission to install the Pin It button extension on Chrome. Note that it says the extension 'can read and change all your data on the websites you visit'. I don't exactly know what data they will be using but my assumption is that the data that is necessary for the Pin It button to work properly. It has over 10 million users with a 4 star average rating, if you have any concerns about using the Pinterest browser button, you can click the View Details button to learn more about the extension and check user reviews.
Step 4: Click Add Extension button (or Add to Chrome button if you are on the extension details page).
Once the extension is installed, Pinterest's Pin It button will be added to the right of the address bar. From now on, whenever you click that button while you are viewing a web page, the Choose a pin to save window will appear and then you will be able to pin it easily.
The extension will also add a Pin It button that will be displayed only when you hover the cursor over an image on a web page; that button is added for even further ease of pinning. However, if you don't want to have that button, you can simply right click the main Pin It button to the right of the address bar and select Options from the dropdown menu. When the Pin It button Options appears, check Hide hovering Pin It buttons option and the Pin It buttons on images will be removed.
If you would like to remove the Pin It button extension totally from Chrome, simply select Remove from Chrome... option.
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