This is a multipart project that downloads your entire Pinterest library for storage in your very own MySQL database, allowing you to create a tagged, searchable archive of your images.
The underlying purpose of this project is to provide a tutorial on personal information management, and curating your own personal Pinterest is a good place to start.
I created this project because I worry about the reliability of cloud based services these days, and Pinterest especially has a little too much sponsored content for my liking.
This tutorial will introduce you to the following coding skills:
- a tool called Pinback that will download your Pinterest notebooks to individual
htmlfiles. - a simple web-scraping Python script that downloads your Pinterest images to your computer.
- a hands-off MySQL tutorial describing the design of my database.
- a very simple
phpweb form that allows for data entry (I’m a beginner at this) - maybe a nicer way to display the data?