Awesome video, works perfectly. However, I would like to be able to choose the board I want to pin to in Airtable (a column with the board names, where I use single select to choose the board), but in the Pinterest Module on Make, you have to choose one board out of the list of boards (no way to link to the Airtable Module, like you do for title etc), which means if you have blogposts that would go to a different board, you would have to manually change the board in the module, so you can only schedule blogposts ahead, that go to the same board... Is there a way I can manage that, by adding a module, or more as extra steps? Thanks, would be really helpful, to be able to schedule in advance! Good work, love you videos, need to watch some more of them 🙂
Glad you found the video useful! The easiest way would be to use a router and just duplicate the flow and add filters for your selected board in airtable. That could get clunky if there are a lot of boards. The most efficient way would be to map the values directly to the one Pinterest module within Airtable. It should be possible to do this. Check the "map" button next to Boards on the Pinterest. Pinterest is expecting an ID. If you uncheck the map button, then select your board, then check the map button again, then you should see the ID for that board (that's a lazy way of getting the IDs - you could also get them via API probably). You could have those IDs as in the single select but that won't be very user friendly, so you could alternatively create a separate table for Boards and just have two columns (Name, ID) and then link those to your Pin records (kind of like how I linked the records and got their values in this automation on our second channel: ua-cam.com/video/4sv-GlnaBKk/v-deo.html). Hope this helps - Alan
@@TheAIAutomators Alan, thanks for the reply. Yes, this helps, although I have 42 boards, so it would get clunky... Not sure how it would work with the 'map', I understand how to get all the ID's and I could figure out how to match them to 'board names' in Airtable, but the problem remains, that from the pinterest module, you can't 'read' the airtable info for 'boards'. So for now, I think I will stick to the cloning, and maybe make 3 identical scenarios, with just different boards and filters and see how I can make it work that way... It should also work with the Pinterest API, but unfortunately, the original email address I used to sign up to Pinterest no longer exists, and they send the verification email to that address, eventhough I changed the address in my business account. So can't use the API (for now). Anyway, I learned alot in a short time and appreciate your reply. Thanks again!
yeah for sure - we also have a video on how to instantly trigger make from Google Sheets, which you could also use in a Google sheets version of this automation to make it more streamlined: ua-cam.com/video/ATGyB6sXmjI/v-deo.html - You may need to tweak the automation for image storage. You could potentially use Google Drive to store the images but I'm not 100% sure if you can upload these to Pinterest. If you can't pass Google Drive URLs to Pinterest then download the image within your make scenario from Google Drive and then select "Base64 image" instead of "image URL" when creating the Pin and then pass the data to that.
@@TheAIAutomators I tried with Google Sheets, you can use the image URL (any URL, I used one from Midjourney), no need to put the images in Google Drive, if they exist somewhere online. The problem with the sheets module though is that you can't add the formula, for the date, and I also couldn't figure out (yet) how to update the status 🙂
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Awesome video, works perfectly. However, I would like to be able to choose the board I want to pin to in Airtable (a column with the board names, where I use single select to choose the board), but in the Pinterest Module on Make, you have to choose one board out of the list of boards (no way to link to the Airtable Module, like you do for title etc), which means if you have blogposts that would go to a different board, you would have to manually change the board in the module, so you can only schedule blogposts ahead, that go to the same board...
Is there a way I can manage that, by adding a module, or more as extra steps?
Thanks, would be really helpful, to be able to schedule in advance!
Good work, love you videos, need to watch some more of them 🙂
Glad you found the video useful! The easiest way would be to use a router and just duplicate the flow and add filters for your selected board in airtable. That could get clunky if there are a lot of boards. The most efficient way would be to map the values directly to the one Pinterest module within Airtable. It should be possible to do this. Check the "map" button next to Boards on the Pinterest. Pinterest is expecting an ID. If you uncheck the map button, then select your board, then check the map button again, then you should see the ID for that board (that's a lazy way of getting the IDs - you could also get them via API probably). You could have those IDs as in the single select but that won't be very user friendly, so you could alternatively create a separate table for Boards and just have two columns (Name, ID) and then link those to your Pin records (kind of like how I linked the records and got their values in this automation on our second channel: ua-cam.com/video/4sv-GlnaBKk/v-deo.html). Hope this helps - Alan
@@TheAIAutomators Alan, thanks for the reply. Yes, this helps, although I have 42 boards, so it would get clunky...
Not sure how it would work with the 'map', I understand how to get all the ID's and I could figure out how to match them to 'board names' in Airtable, but the problem remains, that from the pinterest module, you can't 'read' the airtable info for 'boards'.
So for now, I think I will stick to the cloning, and maybe make 3 identical scenarios, with just different boards and filters and see how I can make it work that way...
It should also work with the Pinterest API, but unfortunately, the original email address I used to sign up to Pinterest no longer exists, and they send the verification email to that address, eventhough I changed the address in my business account. So can't use the API (for now).
Anyway, I learned alot in a short time and appreciate your reply.
Thanks again!
can be mdae with google sheet? airtable free plan have only 100 automation runs permonth, otherwise i have to pay 20$
yeah for sure - we also have a video on how to instantly trigger make from Google Sheets, which you could also use in a Google sheets version of this automation to make it more streamlined: ua-cam.com/video/ATGyB6sXmjI/v-deo.html - You may need to tweak the automation for image storage. You could potentially use Google Drive to store the images but I'm not 100% sure if you can upload these to Pinterest. If you can't pass Google Drive URLs to Pinterest then download the image within your make scenario from Google Drive and then select "Base64 image" instead of "image URL" when creating the Pin and then pass the data to that.
@@TheAIAutomators I tried with Google Sheets, you can use the image URL (any URL, I used one from Midjourney), no need to put the images in Google Drive, if they exist somewhere online. The problem with the sheets module though is that you can't add the formula, for the date, and I also couldn't figure out (yet) how to update the status 🙂