Updated September 2026 · Pinterest · Video pins

Download Pinterest video pins

Quick answer

Pinterest video pins download as MP4 files when you resolve the pin's underlying media instead of screen-recording the app preview. Every public pin has a media URL on Pinterest's CDN; a resolver looks it up from the pin link (pinterest.com/.../pin/ID) and returns the file at the quality Pinterest stores. XDownload performs this lookup in any browser on iPhone, Android, Windows, and Mac — no app or account — and the same tool covers image pins plus 6 other platforms including X and Reddit. Two limits are structural rather than tool flaws: idea pins (the multi-page story format) may only partially resolve, and private or secret boards are invisible to logged-out visitors, so no downloader can fetch them.

Resolve any public post at xdownload.top — free, no app or account needed.

Pinterest is better known for images, but video pins — recipes, DIY steps, workouts, product clips — are everywhere on the platform, and none of them can be saved from the app itself. A browser-based resolve is the practical route. Here is how it works and where the edge cases live.

How pin video storage works

When a creator uploads a video pin, Pinterest transcodes it and hosts the result on its own media CDN. The pin page you see is a wrapper: title, description, board context, and a player. The underlying MP4 exists at a direct URL, and a logged-out browser can fetch it if it knows the address. A resolver's whole job is deriving that address from the public pin link.

Download steps

Open the pin whose video you want.
Use the share button and Copy link, or copy the URL from your browser's address bar — it should contain /pin/ followed by a numeric ID.
Paste the link into xdownload.top.
Resolve, then download the MP4. On iPhone, move it from Files to Photos with the share sheet; on Android and desktop it saves to Downloads.

What will and will not resolve

Standard video pins: resolve normally — this is the main case.
Idea pins: Pinterest's multi-page story format stores each card separately, and some cards are images rather than video. Expect partial results; save the cards that do resolve.
Repins: a repin points at the same underlying media as the original, so either link works — but if the original was deleted, the repin usually dies too.
Private/secret boards: never resolve. Pinterest does not serve them logged-out, which is a platform restriction, not a tool gap.

Quality expectations

You get the file Pinterest serves — the same one that plays in the app. If a pin looks soft, the upload itself was low-resolution; re-downloading through another tool will not improve it. For image pins where original resolution matters, see our Pinterest originals guide.