Idea Pins and stories, and what you can save

Guides · October 21, 2026

Smiling person in a rust-colored blazer against a yellow wall — Stories and Idea Pins are multi-page posts. Copy the link to that post, not the board around it.

Idea Pins and stories are the same kind of object for this tool: a public Pin with more than one page. Each page can be a video or a still. PinSaver lists the pages a logged-out visitor can already open, in the order the creator published them.

Person in an oversized white shirt and round sunglasses — Each public page can be a video or a still, in the published order.

One Pin, several files

Download all starts the files one after another. There is no zip archive and no single combined video. A cooking story with a clip, then a photo of the ingredients, then another clip, comes back as three files in that order. You can also save just the page you need.

The address has to be the Pin. A board titled “stories” is a collection of Pins. Open the story, copy that Pin link, and paste it. Private stories stay private. Saving the pages does not move the copyright.

Person outdoors carrying paper shopping bags — A private story stays private. A logged-out window is the test.

Cover versus pages

The first frame you see in the feed is often only the cover. The story downloader and the Idea Pin downloader both list the later pages when the Pin exposes them. If you only wanted that cover, the thumbnail tool saves the still and leaves the clips alone.

Open the downloader