Automate Pinterest with Claude Cowork

Create pins, target boards, add destination links, and control visual branding with dominant colors — all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup Guide

Please make sure there is always a human in the loop.

Pin to Pinterest in Seconds

Terminal

# Install the skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Find your Pinterest integration
postiz integrations:list

# Upload an image
IMAGE=$(postiz upload design.jpg)
IMAGE_URL=$(echo "$IMAGE" | jq -r '.path')

# Create a Pinterest pin
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Beautiful home office setup ideas for remote workers" \
  -m "$IMAGE_URL" \
  -s "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"board":"board-id","title":"Home Office Ideas","link":"https://example.com/home-office"}' \
  -i "your-pinterest-integration-id"

Pinterest-Specific Features

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Pin Creation

Create rich pins with images, descriptions, titles, and destination links. Drive traffic from Pinterest to your website.

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Board Targeting

Pin directly to specific boards. Organize your content by topic, campaign, or audience segment for maximum reach.

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Link Pins

Attach destination URLs to your pins. Every click drives traffic directly to your website, product page, or blog.

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Visual Branding

Set a dominant color for your pins to maintain brand consistency. Control how your content looks in Pinterest feeds.

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Image Uploads

Upload high-quality images directly via the CLI. Supports JPG, PNG, WEBP, and other common image formats.

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Scheduled Pinning

Schedule pins for optimal times when your audience is most active. Build a consistent pinning cadence automatically.

How It Works

Find Your Pinterest Integration

List your connected accounts and grab your Pinterest integration ID. You can also fetch available settings to see what options are supported.

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Filter for Pinterest
postiz integrations:list | jq \
  '.[] | select(.identifier=="pinterest")'

# Get Pinterest settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <pinterest-id>

Upload Your Image

Upload your pin image to get a public URL. Pinterest requires high-quality images for best results. Supports JPG, PNG, WEBP, and more.

Upload

# Upload image and extract URL
RESULT=$(postiz upload design.jpg)
IMAGE_URL=$(echo "$RESULT" | jq -r '.path')

echo $IMAGE_URL
# https://uploads.postiz.com/your-image.jpg

Create Your Pin

Schedule a Pinterest pin with your image, description, board, title, destination link, and optional dominant color for brand consistency.

Pin Creation

postiz posts:create \
  -c "Inspiring workspace design tips" \
  -m "$IMAGE_URL" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "board": "your-board-id",
    "title": "Workspace Design Tips",
    "link": "https://example.com/tips",
    "dominant_color": "#682EE1"
  }' \
  -i "pinterest-id"

Pinterest Settings Reference

Every Pinterest pin accepts these platform-specific settings via the --settings flag.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "pinterest"
`board`	string	Yes	Board ID to pin to
`title`	string	No	Pin title (max 100 characters)
`link`	string	No	Destination URL when the pin is clicked
`dominant_color`	string	No	Hex color code for visual branding (e.g. "#FF6B35")

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common Pinterest pinning scenarios.

Simple Pin with Link

settings.json

{
  "board": "home-decor-board-id",
  "title": "10 Modern Living Room Ideas",
  "link": "https://example.com/living-room-ideas"
}

Branded Pin with Color

settings.json

{
  "board": "brand-pins-board-id",
  "title": "New Product Launch",
  "link": "https://example.com/product",
  "dominant_color": "#FF6B35"
}

Minimal Pin (Board Only)

settings.json

{
  "board": "inspiration-board-id"
}

Blog Post Pin

settings.json

{
  "board": "blog-posts-board-id",
  "title": "How to Automate Social Media in 2025",
  "link": "https://example.com/blog/automate-social-media",
  "dominant_color": "#682EE1"
}

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agentic AI tool for knowledge workers. It runs on your desktop, connects to local files and apps like Google Drive, Gmail, and DocuSign, and completes multi-step tasks autonomously.

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Desktop Native

Claude Cowork runs directly on your desktop, connecting to your local files and apps. No browser or cloud setup needed to manage your social media workflow.

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App Integrations

Connects to Google Drive, Gmail, DocuSign, and more. Pull content from your existing tools and publish it to social media seamlessly.

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Autonomous Tasks

Schedule recurring tasks with cron jobs. Claude Cowork can pin your Pinterest content on a schedule without you having to ask each time.

How Postiz Works with Claude Cowork

When you install Postiz Agent globally, Claude Cowork automatically discovers it by reading the bundled SKILL.md file. This file tells Claude Cowork what commands are available, what environment variables are needed, and how to compose Pinterest pins with the right settings.

✓Install Postiz Agent and set your POSTIZ_API_KEY
✓Claude Cowork discovers Postiz through MCP integration
✓All Postiz commands become available as tools
✓Claude Cowork autonomously chains commands for complex workflows
✓Works seamlessly with your existing desktop apps and files

Install Postiz

# Install the Postiz skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Claude Cowork discovers Postiz
# through MCP tool integration
# and can call all commands directly

Pinterest Pinning with Claude Cowork

Message Claude Cowork from any platform — it reads the Postiz skill, discovers your Pinterest integration, and handles the entire pinning workflow autonomously.

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From Any Chat App

Tell Claude Cowork what to post from you...

Send a message to Claude Cowork from your favorite chat app. It runs as a persistent daemon on your machine, so it picks up your message, discovers your Pinterest account via Postiz, uploads the image, and creates the pin — all while you go about your day.

Claude Cowork

You: Post to Pinterest about our new
  feature launch, schedule for tomorrow
  at 9am

Claude Cowork: I'll handle that for you.
  1. Found your Pinterest integration
  2. Composing your post
  3. Scheduling for tomorrow at 9:00 AM

  Done! Your post is scheduled.
  Post ID: abc-123

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Scheduled & Proactive

Claude Cowork can be asked to perfo...

Claude Cowork supports cron-based heartbeat tasks. Set up a recurring job that checks a folder for new images and pins them to Pinterest automatically — no manual trigger needed.

Claude Cowork Task

Tell Claude Cowork:

"Every weekday morning, check my
~/content/drafts folder for new posts
and schedule them to Pinterest
for noon today. Move published drafts
to ~/content/published."

Claude Cowork will autonomously:
  1. Monitor your drafts folder
  2. Read and format each post
  3. Schedule via Postiz
  4. Move files when done

Why Claude Cowork + Postiz for Pinterest

Claude Cowork makes Postiz a natural fit for your Pinterest workflow. The agent discovers all available commands and autonomously chains them together.

✓Desktop-native — no terminal or CLI knowledge needed
✓Connects to your local files to pull content for Pinterest posts
✓Multi-step autonomy — handles discovery, composition, and scheduling
✓Works with Google Drive, Gmail, and other desktop apps
✓Cross-post to Pinterest + other platforms in a single request
✓Powered by Claude — Anthropic's most capable AI model

SKILL.md (auto-discovered)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including Pinterest
metadata:
  claude-cowork:
    requirements:
      env:
        - POSTIZ_API_KEY
      binaries:
        - postiz
---

# Available Commands
- postiz integrations:list
- postiz integrations:settings <id>
- postiz posts:create
- postiz upload <file>
- postiz analytics:platform <id>

# Pinterest Settings
board (required), title,
link (destination URL),
dominant_color (hex branding)

Also Works with OpenClaw

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands — including OpenClaw, the open-source personal AI agent.

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OpenClaw

Open-source AI agent

Claude reads the SKILL.md file to learn all available Postiz commands, then autonomously discovers your Pinterest integration, uploads your image, selects the right board, and creates the pin with your link and branding.

OpenClaw

> Pin my new product image to the
  "Spring Collection" board with a link
  to the product page, use brand color

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz upload ./product-image.jpg
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "New spring collection!" \
    -m "uploaded-image-url" \
    -s "2025-03-02T09:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"board":
      "spring-collection-id",
      "title":"Spring Collection",
      "link":"https://shop.example.com
        /spring",
      "dominant_color":"#682EE1"}' \
    -i "pinterest-id"

Pinterest + Other Platforms

Schedule the same image to Pinterest and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Pin to Pinterest and post to Instagram simultaneously
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Check out our latest design! #design #inspiration" \
  -m "$IMAGE_URL" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "board": "design-inspiration-id",
    "title": "Latest Design Showcase",
    "link": "https://example.com/designs",
    "dominant_color": "#682EE1"
  }' \
  -i "pinterest-id,instagram-id"

# Batch schedule a week of Pinterest pins
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Design tip #$day for the week" \
    -m "tip${day}-image-url" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T10:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"board":"design-tips-id","title":"Design Tip '$day'","link":"https://example.com/tips/'$day'"}' \
    -i "pinterest-id"
done

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