pinfeed

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PinFeed: a Pinterest feed proxy

A simple Heroku application that acts as a proxy to Pinterest feeds. It parses each item in the feed and updates the embedded image by changing the thumbinail to the original size image.

This is useful together with IFTTT or other automation tools when generating content (e.g. tweets) based on a Pinterest feed. You can auto-post the original size images from Pinterest as Twitter images.

How to deploy?

Click the button below to deploy this application to Heroku. Heroku will host it for you for free, as long as you don't use it more than 18 hours a day (this is a soft limit). If you want to use it in 24/7, it'll cost you $7/month.

Recently I was getting a lot of traffic, so I'd kindly ask everyone to deploy this app for themselves. I will shut down my app soon.

How to use?

The API is simple (replace pinfeed with your Heroku app name):

• Use https://pinfeed.herokuapp.com/attilaolah to get the feed for user attilaolah. This will use https://www.pinterest.com/attilaolah/feed.rss as the source.
• Use https://pinfeed.herokuapp.com/attilaolah/for-the-home to get the feed for the specific pin board. This will use https://www.pinterest.com/attilaolah/for-the-home.rss as the source.
• The trailing .rss is optional. https://pinfeed.herokuapp.com/user.rss is the same as https://pinfeed.herokuapp.com/user.