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My CSV bulk-create workflow for a 200-pin seasonal batch, and the three places it falls over

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JayDee

Sharing because I wasted a weekend on this. Native Bulk Create takes a CSV, caps around 200 items per file, and processing can take up to about two hours - do not assume a failed upload just because nothing appears for 20 minutes.

Where it broke for me:

  • Image URLs have to be publicly reachable. My staging CDN required a signed URL and every row failed with nothing useful in the report.
  • I couldn't target board sections, only boards, so everything landed in the board root and I re-sorted 200 pins by hand.
  • Once it's scheduled you can edit the title, board, description, link and time, but not the image. One typo'd graphic = delete and redo.

Anyone found a way around the section thing?

# bulk # csv # seasonal

2 replies

Tom

No way around sections that I know of. I gave up and made the sections into real boards where it mattered. Ugly but it works and the board name shows in more surfaces anyway.

Daniel Kim

Two hours is optimistic in Q4. I've had a 180-row file sit for most of a day in early November. Build the batch a week before you need it.

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