How to upload multiple images to Pinterest at once?
I have a folder with images on my computer. One day I decided to upload them to Pinterest. But I could upload these pictures only one by one. I wanted to find an instrument that would help me to do that.
I googled a lot. I found several services to be unsuitable for me.
- Bulk Pinner has been shut down by Pinterest and doesn’t work now.
- Tailwind is paid (not the option). It uploads pins by some schedule and the trial version doesn’t allow me to send all images.
- Pinloadr is for macOS only. I don’t even know if it works now or not.
And then I discovered Zapier thanks to this answer on Webapps StackExchange. And it worked! Let me explain how I used it.
Zapier has a free plan (100 tasks per month). After registration, it also starts a 14-day trial which allowed me to have 1000 tasks. This number was enough
for my purposes.
I made a Zap connecting Google Drive with Pinterest (and allowed access for Zapier to these apps).
There are several triggers for Google Drive: New File, New File in Folder, New Folder, and Updated File.
I selected New File in Folder as a trigger. Then I selected the Google drive account, the drive, and the folder with my images. Zapier allows the testing connection to be sure that Zap can find the new files.
After that, I set up a Pinterest action (Create Pin).
Then I selected a Pinterest account, a customized pin (select not secret board, image as a file, type a note), and tested a connection.
The pin was created.
I named Zap and switched it on.
But it couldn’t save all pins at once. It found all images and created a lot of tasks (near 260 — one task for one file) but some of them were halting and some of them were stopped with errors.
First, Pinterest has a rate limit for API.
Zapier even sent me emails about this problem.
And second, Zapier has a limit for runs.
I had to play tasks every half an hour several times.
And only after that, all images were saved on Pinterest. But it is still better than doing it manually.
