Pinterest MCP: how to use your own boards with Claude

Search for "Pinterest MCP" and you find three different things wearing the same name: an official server from Pinterest that most people cannot use yet, community projects that search Pinterest's public site, and nothing at all that simply hands Claude the boards you have spent years building. If your goal is the last one, there is a way to get there today, and it does not depend on Pinterest. Muse, a $29 Mac app for saving pictures, links and notes, imports your Pinterest boards and includes its own MCP server, so Claude can search and organise them.

Is there an official Pinterest MCP server?

Yes, but not for you and me yet. Pinterest announced its MCP server in June 2026, and its developer page describes bringing "Pinterest Ads capabilities into the AI tools your team already uses": searching pins, managing boards, spotting trends and reading audience insights. Coverage of the launch named a handful of advertising agencies as its first partners.

In September 2026 the page still invites you to "be the first to know when it launches", and no general release date has been given. It is built for businesses and advertisers, and nothing on the page says it will give you your own saved pins.

What do the community Pinterest MCP servers do?

They fall into two groups, and it is worth knowing which you are installing.

• Public search servers. The most popular, terryso/mcp-pinterest, searches Pinterest by keyword, reads a pin's details and downloads images. It works by driving a hidden web browser, not through Pinterest's API, and it searches public pins rather than your account. That makes it handy for gathering images on a theme, and fragile whenever Pinterest changes its pages.
• API servers. Others connect through Pinterest's official API with a developer app you register yourself. New apps start on Trial access after Pinterest approves them, and Pinterest's own documentation says pins and boards created with Trial access are only visible to their creator. Setting one up means a developer account, an app review and a token, which is a lot to ask for "show Claude my moodboards".

Neither group is made by Pinterest, so check who maintains a server, when it last changed and what it can do to your account before connecting it.

How can Claude see your own Pinterest boards?

Take your boards out of Pinterest and put them somewhere Claude can reach. Pinterest lets anyone download their data, and that download includes every board and pin. The steps, from Pinterest's help centre:

1. Open Settings on the web. Log in at pinterest.com, click the more-options icon at the bottom left and choose Settings.
2. Request your data. Choose Privacy and data, then under Request your data click Start request.
3. Wait for the email. Pinterest says it can take up to 48 hours, and the link arrives at your account's email address through a service called SendSafely.
4. Unzip it. You get a folder of around 27 subfolders. You do not need to work out which one holds your boards.

One surprise: the export contains no pictures at all, only text. Your boards and pins are there as descriptions and links, so something has to fetch the images again before the boards look like boards. Our guide to backing up Pinterest boards properly covers what the export holds in more detail.

Turning the export into boards Claude can search

This is the part Muse was built for. In Muse, open Settings > Import & Export and choose Pinterest Export, then pick the folder. Muse recognises a Pinterest export whichever part of it you point at, turns each board into a collection, and fetches every picture. A 2,000-pin account comes to roughly 600 MB and needs to stay online while it downloads. You will end up with fewer pictures than pins, on purpose: a pin saved to three boards becomes one picture that lives in all three.

Muse includes an MCP server from version 1.0.40. Turn on Allow AI Apps in Settings > Intelligence, click Copy Setup, and add it to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex or another AI app on your Mac. Our Claude Desktop guide shows where it goes.

From then on, your old boards are something Claude can work with:

• "Find the kitchens with green tiles from my Home board."
• "Which of my wedding pins say save the date? Make a Stationery collection from those."
• "Find more like the walnut chair I saved, across all my boards."
• "Sort my Inspiration board into three collections by colour."

Muse searches by words, colours and text inside pictures, and finds similar images, all on your Mac. Claude reads what Muse finds and can look at the pictures themselves. Anything Claude removes goes to Muse's Trash, which only you can empty.

What this route does not do

It is not a live connection to Pinterest. Claude will not see pins you save tomorrow until you bring them in, it cannot pin anything back to Pinterest, and it cannot search Pinterest's wider catalogue for you. Muse only answers AI apps running on your Mac, so Claude on the web or your phone cannot reach it, and Muse runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 or later.

What you get instead is your own collection, at full size, on your own disk, in folders you can open in Finder, and an AI app that can search and organise it without Pinterest in the way. For many people that was the point of asking for a Pinterest MCP in the first place.