pinterest-pin-creator

This projects helps me automate my pinterest pin creation. I can schedule the pins in the this schudule file and when running the application the schedule will be read and if a pin is up for creation, it will be created.

The project uses the Pinterest API v5 as well as the quickstart guide as reference.

Setup

To setup the project you first need prepare the config.yaml and schedule.csv files, as well as set the APP_ID and APP_SECRET environment variables.

1. config.yaml setup

Execute the following commend to prepare your config.yaml file.

mv config.yaml.example config.yaml

Next fill in the configuration with your data:

access_token_path: .access_token
schedule_file_path: /path/to/schedule.csv
browser_path: /path/to/a/browser/application
redirect_port: your_redirect_port

The redirect port must be the same that you set during your Pinterest Application setup

2. schedule.csv setup

Same as for your config file, you need to execute this command to prepare your schedule file.

mv schedule.csv.example schedule.csv

The schedule file has the following structure:

created;timestamp;board;title;description;filePath;link

• created: boolean flag - always fill in false
• timestamp: pin creation timestamp in the format 'Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 MST'
• board: name of the pinterest board
• title: title for the pin
• description: description for the pin
• filePath: path to the image file for the pin
• link: link to the external URL of the pin

3. App ID and App Secret

In order to create an access token you need to provide your app ID and app secret as environment variables.

export APP_ID=<your app id>
export APP_SECRET=<your app secret>

Running the code

While running the application you need to provide the config.yaml file as an argument.

go run main.go config.yaml

Building the application

go build -o ./bin/pin-creator