Automate Pinterest with Paperclip

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 Paperclip

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 Paperclip?

Paperclip is an open-source orchestration framework for building “zero-human companies” by hiring and managing teams of AI agents. It handles content, social media distribution, marketing, dev, QA, and more from a single dashboard.

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Agent Teams

Paperclip manages teams of AI agents that work together. Assign a content agent, a scheduling agent, and a review agent to your social media workflow.

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Single Dashboard

Monitor all your AI agents and their social media tasks from one unified dashboard. Track posts, schedules, and performance in real time.

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Orchestration

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

How Postiz Works with Paperclip

When you install Postiz Agent globally, Paperclip automatically discovers it by reading the bundled SKILL.md file. This file tells Paperclip 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
✓Paperclip discovers Postiz through tool integration
✓Assign Postiz commands to specialized agents in your team
✓Orchestrate multi-step workflows with approval chains
✓Monitor everything from the Paperclip dashboard

Install Postiz

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

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Paperclip discovers Postiz through
# its tool integration system
# and assigns it to agent teams

Pinterest Pinning with Paperclip

Message Paperclip 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

Paperclip assigns specialized agents to ...

Send a message to Paperclip 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.

Paperclip

Content Agent: Drafted a post about
  the feature launch for Pinterest.

Review Agent: Approved with minor
  edits. Ready to publish.

Scheduling Agent: Found Pinterest
  integration via Postiz.
  Scheduled for tomorrow 9:00 AM.

  Post ID: abc-123
  Status: Scheduled

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Scheduled & Proactive

Paperclip orchestrates recurring co...

Paperclip 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.

paperclip.yaml (pipeline)

pipelines:
  daily_social:
    schedule: "0 9 * * 1-5"
    agents:
      - role: content_creator
        task: "Draft a Pinterest post
          about trending industry topics"
      - role: reviewer
        task: "Review and polish the
          draft for engagement"
      - role: publisher
        task: "Schedule via Postiz
          for today at noon"

Why Paperclip + Postiz for Pinterest

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

✓Multi-agent teams for quality Pinterest content — draft, review, publish
✓Single dashboard to monitor all social media automation
✓Orchestrated pipelines from content creation to publishing
✓Scheduled pipelines for hands-free daily posting
✓Cross-post to Pinterest + other platforms in a single pipeline
✓Open-source — fully customizable agent workflows

SKILL.md (auto-discovered)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including Pinterest
metadata:
  paperclip:
    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 Claude Code

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands — including Anthropic's Claude Code.

Claude Code

by Anthropic

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.

Claude Code

> 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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