A user reported their Pinterest account was banned after using a tool to automate posting Amazon affiliate links, as the platform's anti-spam system identified the scheduled posts as bot activity.

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        "author": "Basic-Strain-6922",
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        "excerpt": "created the exact same thing with Amazon, got banned on pinterest because actually automating posting requires their approval, and their anti spam marked my scheduled posts as bot activity. Pivoted to just finding and creating pins, leaving posting either to Claude Cowork or just manually. Worked way better.\n\n Edit: clarification",
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        "excerpt": "Can you tell me what you did or had to connect ? I’m currently trying to do the same with a different affiliate and X but I can connect eBay",
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    "post_text": "i spent around $200 (unnecessarily) building a tool that can automatically find products from eBay, turn them into Pinterest-ready Pins, route them to the right board or create one when needed, schedule + publish them, and monitor the product links afterward. it also works with products from ur own website, but the original reason i started building it was because i wanted to get back into doing affiliate products on Pinterest.\n\nthe problem was i genuinely did not feel like doing all the repetitive work again. finding products, making the Pin, writing descriptions, creating boards, figuring out which board everything belongs on, scheduling everything, and then checking later to see if the product listing is still alive.\n\nespecially with affiliate stuff, that last part annoyed me.\n\na pin might start getting traffic way later, and the last thing i want is clicks going to a product that doesn't exist anymore.\n\nso if the product behind a Pin disappears, Vealous flags it and gives me a few options to deal with it instead of just silently losing potential buyers.\n\nyears ago i actually built a C# desktop program to automate a lot of this, but it was extremely unreliable and constantly had errors (probably because i coded it haha).\n\ni could never stay consistent with it.\n\nso this time i wanted something i could basically configure once and leave alone.\n\ni started building Vealous...",
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