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Move your wishlist from Pinterest

Moving your Pinterest boards to Things To Have takes three steps. You export your data, reformat it with an assistant, and import the file. Each board becomes a list, and each pin becomes a thing.

Nothing is added to your account until you review and confirm the preview.

1. Get your pins out of Pinterest

Pinterest has no board export tool. You can request your full account archive or copy a single board by hand.

Request your data from Pinterest

This download covers all your boards at once, including secret boards.

  1. On the web, click the more-options icon at the bottom left, then Settings. In the app, tap your profile picture, then tap the profile photo at the top left.
  2. Open Privacy and data.
  3. Under Request your data, click Start request.

Pinterest says the download link can take up to 48 hours to arrive by email, and it can take longer. The file contains your boards and pins, which the assistant will extract in the next step.

Copy one board yourself

If you only need one board, you can copy the pins manually. Open each pin, follow the link to the original website, and paste the URL into a text file, one per line. Add a ## Board name heading above the links. This file imports directly without an assistant, as explained in the Import file format guide.

2. Reformat it with an assistant

Copy the prompt below into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or another assistant. Attach or paste your Pinterest data, and save the reply as a .json file.

Turn my wishlist into a Things To Have import file. Follow the format documented at https://thingstohave.app/help/import-format exactly: one JSON object with "schemaVersion": 1, a "lists" array and a "things" array, where each list references its items by their ids in "thingIds". Reply with the JSON only.

Include these details for the assistant:

  • Secret boards: Ask for "isPublic": false so they become private lists, and true for public lists.
  • Pins without links: An uploaded photo, a screenshot or a quote still imports as a thing with only a name. Ask the assistant to give them a proper name and keep them.
  • Prices: Omit prices unless both the amount and currency are present. The importer skips prices that lack a currency.

3. Import the file

  1. Go to Settings → Data → Import data.
  2. Drop the .json file on the page, or paste its contents.
  3. Review the preview to verify the lists and things.
  4. Confirm.

The importer does not remove duplicates. A pin saved to multiple boards becomes multiple things, and importing a file twice duplicates every entry. Each file can contain up to 1,000 things; split larger exports into multiple files.

What does not come across

  • Images: Pin images do not import. You can upload an image to a thing later, or paste the product link to fetch one automatically.
  • Board sections: Sections do not import as separate lists. You can ask the assistant to make each section a list, or merge them into the main board.
  • Followers and comments: Social activity remains on Pinterest.

You can save new things from your browser using the bookmarklet or the iOS shortcut.