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NorkQ
NorkQ

Reputation: 45

Pinterest API V5 Create Pins With Local Images

I'm trying to make a pinner app with official Pinterest API. I completed most of the features, but I'm struggling with creating pins.

I can't create a pin with my local files like:

MEDIA_SOURCE = 
{                 
"source_type": "image_url",                 
"content_type": "image/jpeg",                 
"data": "string",
'url':'C:/Users/USER/Images/Cat/3D62226C-A2F9-4171-BF04-B03AF416CD46.jpg'          
}

HTTP response body: {"code":1,"message":"Parameter 'image url' with the value 'C:/Users/USER/Images/Cat/3D62226C-A2F9-4171-BF04-B03AF416CD46.jpg' is not a valid URL format."}

Pinterest gives me this error.

I tried with this media_source template. It works like expected. So, I can use https url's in this dictionary but not local file url's. I think I should change source_type value in the dictionary but I couldn't find the parameters that can be usable for this source_type value.

MEDIA_SOURCE = 
{                 
"source_type": "image_url",                 
"content_type": "image/jpeg",                 
"data": "string",                 
'url':'https://URL-TO-IMAGE.jpg'                 
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 774

Answers (2)

Brijesh Sahani
Brijesh Sahani

Reputation: 1

Issue: The Pinterest API expects the image to be accessible via a publicly available URL. Local file paths such as C:/Users/USER/Images/... are not valid because the Pinterest server cannot access your local filesystem.

Solution: To resolve this issue, you need to upload the image from your local system to a publicly accessible location and then use that URL in the API request.

Steps: Upload the image to a public image hosting service: You can use any of the following services to host your image:

  1. Imgur (https://imgur.com)
  2. Cloudinary (https://cloudinary.com)
  3. Amazon S3 (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/)

Or any other image hosting service that provides a publicly accessible URL for your image. Use the publicly accessible URL: Once the image is uploaded, the service will provide a URL that points to the image. You need to use this URL in the media_source dictionary when making the API request.

MEDIA_SOURCE = {
    "source_type": "image_url",
    "content_type": "image/jpeg",
    "data": "string",  // Optional, depending on API documentation
    "url": "https://your-image-hosting-service.com/path/to/image.jpg"
}

Upvotes: -1

NorkQ
NorkQ

Reputation: 45

I contacted with Pinterest developer support. Currently (June, 2023) local image sharing is not available. So we have to host image in a server. Than we can share a pin with this media source dictionary:

MEDIA_SOURCE = 
{                 
"source_type": "image_url",                 
"content_type": "image/jpeg",                 
"data": "string",                 
'url':'https://URL-TO-IMAGE.jpg'                 
}

Upvotes: 1

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