Pinterest Board ID: How do I find it fast without the network tab?

I’m going to show you exactly how to find your Pinterest board IDs. This is the fastest way to do it. 👋🤙

Most tutorials out there have you digging through browser developer tools, clicking through Network tabs, refreshing pages, squinting at a wall of requests trying to figure out which one has your board ID buried in it. I’ve seen other videos talking about going to network tabs and all this technical stuff, and honestly? Unnecessary for most people.

There’s a way simpler approach and you don’t need any real technical chops to pull it off.

The Network Tab Method is Overkill

So the method that’s been floating around forever goes something like this: you right-click on your board page, hit “Inspect” to pop open developer tools, navigate over to the Network tab, refresh the page, and then start sifting through dozens of network requests hoping you stumble on the right one that contains your board ID. It’s a lot of steps.

And look, it can work. But it’s clunky and it’s confusing, especially if you’re not someone who lives inside browser dev tools all day. You’re staring at a bunch of requests that all look the same and you’re just guessing. Not a great workflow.

The Way Faster Method: View Page Source

This is what I actually do and it takes like 15 seconds once you know the string to search for. It’s the quickest approach.

Go to Your Board

Open up Pinterest, navigate to your profile, and click into whatever board you need the ID for. Start on the board page. Simple enough.

Right-Click, View Page Source

Here’s the part where people mess up. You right-click on the page and you’re going to see both “Inspect” and “View Page Source” in that context menu. Do NOT click Inspect. That’s the developer tools thing we’re trying to avoid.

Click View Page Source. It’ll open up the raw HTML of the page in a new tab.

Search for This Exact String

Hit Cmd+F on Mac or Ctrl+F on Windows to open the find bar, and then paste this in:

"FeedResource", "options":{"boardId":"

That’s it. Your board ID shows up right after that string. It’s just a sequence of numbers, copy it and you’re done.

Why You Can’t Just Search “boardId”

This is the part that tripped me up initially and I think it trips up a lot of people. If you just search for a bunch of numbers that look like a board ID or you just search for the word “board ID,” you will find the wrong board ID because there are different ones scattered throughout the HTML document. There are multiple IDs.

Pinterest’s page source is massive and there are multiple references to various IDs all over the place. The string “FeedResource”, “options”:{“boardId”:” is the most reliable one I’ve found to give me exactly what I need.

It consistently points to the correct board ID, not some random internal reference or a different board’s ID that happens to appear earlier in the source code.

Why Would You Even Need a Board ID

Fair question. If you’re just casually using Pinterest this probably doesn’t apply to you, but if you’re doing anything with the Pinterest API you’re going to need board IDs constantly. Things like creating pins programmatically, pulling board data, listing pins from a specific board, all of that requires the board ID. The API needs IDs.

Same goes for automation tools. If you’re using third-party software to manage your Pinterest marketing or you’re building some kind of analytics setup that pulls Pinterest data, board IDs are how everything gets identified on the backend.

Quick Reference

So just look at your screen, copy that, and just type that in the command F after you right-click and click view page source, and that’s it. There you got your board ID.

But for now this works perfectly and it’s been reliable for me across multiple boards and accounts so I’d say go with it until it breaks.