The full how-to: one URL, one sign-in, and your assistant can save straight to your library, whether that is Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or anything else that speaks MCP. Plus the prompts I actually use, from the person who built the thing.
PinSuite has a native MCP server at https://pinsuite.app/mcp. Add that URL as a connector in Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor, approve access on the PinSuite screen that opens, and your assistant can save boards, archive pages, and export collections without you leaving the chat. That is genuinely the whole thing. Everything below is detail and prompts.
A few days ago I was planning a trip with Claude, and it linked me a Pinterest board called wanderlust. 5,926 pins of gardens and green places. Exactly the kind of thing I would want to find again in six months.
Normally, saving that board means leaving the chat. New tab. Copy the URL. Open PinSuite. Paste. Wait for the import. Then try to remember what I was even asking Claude about.
I built PinSuite, and even I skipped that ritual half the time. Too many steps. And that is how most "worth keeping" things end: not kept.
So we removed the detour. PinSuite now has an MCP server, a direct line between your AI assistant and your library. I typed "save that board for me," kept planning the trip, and the board downloaded itself in the background. That is the whole story.
MCP, in One Breath
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It is an open standard, originally from Anthropic, that lets AI apps plug into outside tools, and at this point everyone speaks it: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, more every month. What that buys you: PinSuite runs one server and every assistant can use it. No per-app plugins, no waiting for us to "add support" for your client of choice.
If you do not care how it works, skip ahead. It will not be on the test.
What Your Assistant Can Do, Once They've Been Introduced
Connected, your assistant gets real tools, the same ones the site uses. In practice:
Save any Pinterest or Instagram URL. A pin, a board, a board section, a whole profile. Boards import in the background, so a 200-pin board is in your library about a minute after you ask.
Preview before saving. My favorite. Ask what is in a board first, so you get item count, media types and title, then keep all of it or just the parts you want. This has saved me from more than one 14,000-pin "aesthetic" board.
Archive whole web pages. Recipes, tutorials, the blog post you cite in every argument. A permanent snapshot, same as the web archiver makes, still readable after the original site dies.
Answer questions about your library. "What did I save last week?" "Where is that tile pattern from March?" Real answers, from your actual saves, not a hallucinated guess.
Export collections. ZIP of original-quality images, CSV credit sheet, HTML gallery, PDF moodboard. The assistant queues the job and hands you the link when it is done.
Check your plan. "How many saves do I have left" gets a number, pulled from your account.
Here is an exchange from my own history, more or less verbatim:
Hooking It Up to Claude
On claude.ai and Claude Desktop, PinSuite joins as a custom connector:
- Open Settings → Connectors. (They have moved this menu twice since spring. If it is not there, poke around: the shape never changes, so find where connectors live.)
- Choose Add custom connector.
- Paste
https://pinsuite.app/mcp - Approve on the PinSuite screen that opens. Already signed in? It goes straight to Allow. Signed out, you sign in once first.
That is the setup. Claude still asks before it actually saves anything on your behalf, which I appreciate.
In Claude Code, the terminal client, it is one line:
claude mcp add --transport http pinsuite https://pinsuite.app/mcpThe first time a tool fires, it opens the same browser approval.
Rather watch than read? The video at the top of this post is exactly this: connector added, board saved, start to finish.
ChatGPT, Cursor, and Everything Else
The server uses OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration. Translated from spec-speak: no API keys, no developer console, nothing to copy out of a settings page. Any MCP client points at the URL, registers itself, and puts you on a normal sign-in screen.
ChatGPT, same URL, same idea:
- Open Settings → Connectors. ChatGPT moves this menu about as often as Claude does. If it is not there, look for wherever apps or connectors live.
- Choose to add a connector, and pick the option for a custom or MCP server.
- Paste
https://pinsuite.app/mcp - Approve on the PinSuite screen that opens. Same sign-in as Claude: no API key, nothing to copy across.
Cursor: add an entry to mcp.json pointing at the URL. The OAuth flow runs the first time a tool fires.
Codex CLI and the rest: if it speaks MCP over HTTP, it works. Add server, sign in, done.
Exact config snippets per client live on the integrations page and in the MCP docs. If a connection will not stick, the connection troubleshooting guide covers what usually causes it.
Prompts I Actually Use
Straight from my own chat history, comments included:
They chain, too. "Save these three boards, then export the first one as a ZIP" is one sentence here. It used to be ten clicks across two apps.
And because saves land in a real library, everything else still applies to them: palette extraction, notes, tags, sections. The board your assistant saved mid-conversation has its colors waiting when you open it later.
Why I Bothered Building This
A library you have to visit is a library you slowly stop using. I have watched it in my own account: every extra step between "oh, that's good" and "saved" loses some percentage of the things worth keeping. Add enough steps and the library quietly goes stale.
MCP deletes the trip. Saving happens where the finding happens, mid-conversation, and the library stops being a place you have to remember to maintain.
It also compounds with the promise PinSuite was built on: nothing you save is ever deleted, on any plan. What your assistant saves today is still there in five years, with original-quality media and source links intact, even if the pin, the post, or the whole site is gone by then. And as far as I can tell, we are still the only Pinterest collection tool with its own native MCP server. There are Pinterest analytics connectors out there, but nothing that saves into a library you keep. I would like that on the record before it stops being true.
Questions I Keep Getting
Is the connection secure?
Yes. OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, the boring, correct way to do this. Your password never touches the AI app. You see exactly which scopes a client is asking for when you sign in (reading, saving, exporting), and you can kick any client out from your account settings whenever you like. Everything is rate-limited on our side, too.
Does it cost extra?
No. MCP comes with every account, Free and Pro. Saves made through your assistant count against the same allowance as saves made on the site: 25 on Free, unlimited saves plus exports on Pro ($6.99/month or $49/year). Either way, saved means saved forever.
Which AI apps support MCP?
Claude (web, desktop, and Claude Code), ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, and a list that keeps growing. It is an open standard, so when a new client adopts it, PinSuite works there on day one without us shipping a thing.
Give your assistant a memory for the visual web.
Setup takes under a minute. Free plan, 25 saves, nothing ever deleted.
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