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pinterest.api.php

December 4th, 2011

Last March Jasmine started talking to me about Pinterest in terms that made me pay attention. Since then I’ve been keeping an eye on it. A few weeks ago I decided to “cheat” my way into participation by writing a quick script to sync my Etsy favorites to a board.

Per request, I just pushed my PHP library for the unofficial Pinterest API up to Github. It’s a simple thing, more suitable for forking then using as is, and with some serious gaps where I simply haven’t had the time to find (assuming they exist) API methods for simulating the “pinmarklet” (as opposed to uploading), and for backing up pins.

https://github.com/kellan/pinterest.api.php

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  1. Deeplinking » Etsy Book Picks: says:
    December 7, 2011 at 9:09 am

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  2. Aaron says:
    December 8, 2011 at 7:51 pm

    Thanks for putting your library on github! Quick questions, where / how can I get the $clientid and $clientsecret params for the $fetchaccesstoken function?

  3. Kellan says:
    December 9, 2011 at 5:26 am

    Aaron, please see: http://laughingmeme.org/2011/11/12/snooping-on-an-iphone-apps-api-usage-aka-light-weight-reverse-engineering/

  4. Mike says:
    December 11, 2011 at 3:24 am

    I have tried following these instructions using Charles and I see the following error

    SSLHandshake: Remote host closed connection during handshake

    Has this happened to you before?

  5. Kellan says:
    December 14, 2011 at 9:29 am

    Mike, sounds like you might have grabbed pinterest’s SSL cert rather then Charles. Was pointed out to me that you can get the Charles cert from here without the steps above:

    http://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/faqs/ssl-connections-from-within-iphone-applications/

  6. Yashh says:
    December 29, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    Well we have been delaying the pinterest API launch due to our changes in infrastructure. We did not want the developers to deal with the change in ids etc. Jan 10 2012 will be the official data when we will open up the API. I will write an email to all the people on the waiting list. Also the new API will be v2 and v1 will be deprecated in March.

  7. Tim says:
    January 4, 2012 at 1:51 am

    Lots of nostalgia seeing the Magpie code in your Github repository. Thank you again for the little project.

  8. batpigandme says:
    January 17, 2012 at 9:31 am

    Hey all- ran into this very helpful discussion while (obviously) trying to automate some pinterest posting of my own, and am wondering if anyone has made any progress or knows the status of the official pinterest API

  9. Charles says:
    January 19, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    What is the current timing of the API? We have a project with a quickly approaching deadline and we are hoping to allow our users to share on pinterst. Thanks.

  10. Martijn The says:
    January 27, 2012 at 8:04 am

    Thanks for this Kellan. It looks like the latest Pinterest app is using v2 now. I’m going to give your code a spin and see if it still works.

    Martijn

  11. Umesh Kulkarni says:
    February 17, 2012 at 12:57 am

    Hi Guys,

    I have tried using all the possibilities but still its giving 404 error.

    Any success with API?

  12. Kellan says:
    February 17, 2012 at 4:46 am

    I haven’t tried using it in a month or so, it’s quite possible that the clientid or the entire library is out of date since the lastest app release.

  13. Adam says:
    February 27, 2012 at 10:07 am

    Hey Martijn,

    Any luck? Before we start attempting this ourselves, just curious how you’re going with it…

    Thanks, Adam

  14. blake says:
    March 3, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    How do you get on the waiting list for the official Pinterest API?

  15. Osama Shabrez says:
    March 8, 2012 at 11:23 am

    Hello All,

    I need to synchronize my pins with my account is this API still working some how or I have to start scratch?

    Waiting for a reply, Thanks.

    Osama

  16. Kellan says:
    March 18, 2012 at 9:41 am

    Pushed some changes yesterday to work with v2

  17. Ashwin says:
    April 4, 2012 at 6:07 am

    Hi,

    I have download your pinterest api can you give me example how to get popular list from pinterest and what is $clientid and $clientsecret; how to obtain it.

    please give step by step guide.

    Thanks & Regards, Ashwin Parmar

  18. dhanesh mane says:
    April 17, 2012 at 1:08 am

    hi aaron

    Before a client application can request access to resources on a resource server, the client application must first register with the authorization server associated with the resource server. At registration the client application is assigned a client ID and a client secret (password) by the authorization server.

  19. Sam says:
    April 20, 2012 at 4:59 am

    Great api. but how to get $clientid, $clientsecret seems i got a 404 page when accessing the official api page

  20. Kevin says:
    October 16, 2012 at 9:01 am

    Great work figuring out the API, but can you clarify a little more on client ID & secret? Do they uniquely identify a user or an authorized app?

    Assuming it’s an app, since the API is not publicly open and thus we can’t register apps with Pinterest, wouldn’t the Pinterest app be the only app with its own client ID & secret? If I got the Pinterest app’s ID & secret via Charles, could I have my app use them?

    I’m trying to make an app from which users can pin images they like, but I can’t see how to get the client secret & ID to use in the API if those are phone-specific.