Download Pinterest videos without watermarks, login, or aggressive ads
Pinterest is full of short videos worth saving: cooking tutorials, workout routines, design inspiration, DIY walkthroughs, dance clips, and aesthetic loops. The official Pinterest app does not have a download button for video pins. So a lot of people end up screen-recording, which is awkward, loses quality, and adds whatever notifications happen to pop up during recording. This tool gives you the actual MP4 file from Pinterest's own CDN. Same quality as what plays in the app, just downloaded.
How this works under the hood
You paste a Pinterest pin URL. We fetch that pin's HTML page server-side, parse the embedded JSON data and meta tags Pinterest uses to describe the pin, and extract the direct CDN URLs for the video at every quality Pinterest hosts. Then we show you those URLs as Download buttons. When you click Download, the file streams through our server to your device with a proper filename and the right MP4 headers, so it saves as a normal file instead of opening in a new browser tab.
The reason we fetch server-side is that Pinterest does not allow cross-origin browser requests to its pin pages. So if we tried to do everything in the browser, the request would be blocked. The server fetch gets around that. We only fetch the pin page, never your account or anything else, and we never ask for Pinterest credentials.
What pin types are supported
Standard video pins are the most common. These play in autoplay on the Pinterest feed and have a play button when you tap them. Most upload as 720p or 1080p MP4.
Pinterest Reels are the short vertical video format Pinterest pushes hard. They are MP4 internally and work identically to video pins from our downloader's perspective.
Idea Pins are multi-page video walkthroughs. When the pin contains video segments, we extract them. When it contains image segments, we extract the static images instead.
GIF-style pins that are actually MP4 internally come through as normal video downloads.
Image pins work too: instead of a video, you get a high-resolution image URL ready to right-click and Save As.
Why no watermark
The MP4 file we deliver is the exact file Pinterest serves to its own video player. There is no re-encoding step, no overlay, no branding. Pinterest does not watermark its own MP4 files because watermarks are bandwidth-expensive to render. So when we hand you the file Pinterest already served, you get it clean.
What we do not do
We do not log you into Pinterest. We do not store your downloads. We do not ask for an email. We do not show fake download buttons that lead to ads. We do not put a 30-second timer on free downloads. We do not redirect you through six tracker pages before the file starts. None of the things that make most "free downloader" sites annoying.
What we do is two HTTP requests: one to Pinterest to get the pin metadata, one to Pinterest's CDN to get the MP4. The MP4 streams through our PHP proxy with a Content-Disposition header so your browser saves it instead of trying to play it inline. That's it.
Quality selection
Pinterest stores each video at multiple resolutions: 360p, 480p, 720p, and sometimes 1080p for higher-quality uploads. Our parser finds every quality variant and shows them all as buttons. Pick the highest if you want the best look. Pick a lower one if you want a smaller file size, like for sending over messaging apps with attachment limits.
When this tool will not work
Private pins on private boards cannot be downloaded because Pinterest never serves them to anonymous requests. Pins where the original video has been removed by Pinterest's moderation team also cannot be retrieved. Some recently-posted pins may not yet have their CDN URLs available when our server fetches the page — try again in a few minutes if the first attempt says no video found.
Pairing with other tools
After downloading a Pinterest video, you might want to pull stills from it with the video frame extractor for storyboards or thumbnails. To shrink a large MP4 for messaging, use a video compressor (in our roadmap). To turn the MP4 into a GIF, you can use a video editor. To extract just the audio, the audio-only quality option is available when Pinterest provides it.