Quickstart tools
The Pinterest Developer Platform provides quickstart tools that help to streamline your development process, allowing you to focus on building innovative applications that leverage Pinterest's features.
Before getting started
- Access to the Pinterest API requires you to have business account
- To use our developer tools, your app must already be approved for access. Review the Connect app guide for details. Approved apps will have an active status and visible app secret in your apps management page.
Test access tokens
Test Access tokens are special tokens that allow you to test certain endpoints without needing to go through the full OAuth flow.
Key Features
- Easy Testing: Quickly test API calls without requiring full OAuth authentication.
- Time-Saving: Speeds up the development process by eliminating repetitive authentication steps.
Types of test tokens
- Production limited tokens: generate a token with the following scopes
pins:readandboards:readuser_accounts:read - Sandbox token: generate a token that will work against all scopes in our Sandbox environment only
How to Get Started
- Log into your developer account and go to your My apps page
- Select Manage on the app which you'd like to create a test token for
- On the Configure tab, create a test token under the Generate Access Token section
- Choose between a product-limited or sandbox token
- Use the obtained test token in your API requests for testing purposes
Github quickstart
The Pinterest API Quickstart GitHub repository contains code examples, scripts, and detailed instructions to help you integrate Pinterest's functionalities into your applications swiftly.
Key features
- Ready-to-use code examples
- Detailed setup instructions
- Scripts for common API tasks
Postman Collection
Our Developer Platform team maintains a Postman collection that includes predefined requests for every endpoint. If you have a Postman account, you can view the Pinterest workspace and begin making requests in a matter of minutes.
Key features
- Comprehensive collection of API endpoints: All endpoints are neatly organized and readily accessible within the collection
- Pre-configured requests: API requests in the collection are pre-configured with the necessary methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE), URL structures, and required headers and parameters
How to get started
Open the Pinterest public Postman workspace to explore what's possible with the Pinterest API. If you're ready to make some API requests, you'll want to fork the collection into your Postman workspace. Here's how:
- Fork the collection
- Navigate to the latest collection version in the workspace
- Click on the three dots next to the collection name
- Select Create a fork.
- Label the Fork and select a workspace
- Generate an access token and add it to your workspace
- Select the Pinterest Collection Header within your personal workspace.
- View the Authorization tab.
- Update the callback URL (1) to match the redirect URL set on your app's Manage page.
- Enter your Pinterest app ID (2) as the client ID.
- Enter your Pinterest app secret (3) as the client secret.
- Select Get New Access Token and go through the OAuth process.
- Select Use Token. You can optionally change the token name to something that makes sense to you.
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