Does Pinterest button have a callback?

Question

I need to unlock content when someone shares the post with pinterest, and I can't find a callback function on pinterest button. Is there any way to do this?

Aoristic

Answer 1

You could wrap the pinterest link with a span and add a jQuery click event to the span to at least know that the pinit button was clicked. That's about the best you can do until they release a real callback so you can know that an item was actually pinned.

<span id="pin-container"><a data-pin-config="beside" href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=[your_url]&media=[your_image]&description=[your_desc]" data-pin-do="buttonPin" ><img src="//assets.pinterest.com/images/pidgets/pin_it_button.png" /></a></span>

$('#pin-container').click(function () {
        alert('clicked pin button');
    });

Pictorial

Answer 2

A workaround is posted here:

http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2012/03/12/tracking-pinterest-event-tracking/

Until Pinterest opens up a public API and a non-iFrame tracking button, this is about as good as you'll get.

Detrude

That solution is useless, it does not actually track if the user pinned something. This will not be possible until they release their new API. – Assailant

I'll try this and tell you the results, could be a temporary solution until they launch the new API. thanks – Aoristic

This tracks the click on the button, not the action of successfully pinning content on pinterest. – Nonparticipation

This is NOT a solution – Burrell

Answer 3

As said before, the API is not public yet. The best workaround (I just tested it, and it works in my scenario) that I've found so far is http://www.seomoves.org/blog/tools/tracking-pins-with-the-pinterest-button-2595/

That link only lets you determine if the Pin Button was clicked, not if they actually made the share. Hope that helps a little!

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