Bookmark Archive

For a small annual fee, Pinboard can download and store a copy of every page you bookmark, for your own private use.

How does it work?

Each time you save a bookmark, or put something on your toread list, Pinboard will crawl the URL and store a permanent copy of the page to your account.

You'll see a special checkbox icon next to the bookmark title:

Clicking on this icon will take you to a stored snapshot of the page. The snapshot is a complete copy of the page contents.

What does it cost?

An archival account costs $25 per year. If you paid money to join Pinboard, your signup fee will be deducted from this price.

You can request a refund within three days of enabling the service. After that, no refunds are available.

How do I sign up?

Click the button on the right side of this page. We'll turn on the archive feature, send you a PayPal invoice, and start crawling your existing bookmarks immediately.

If you change your mind, you can hit the 'Cancel' button at any time before making payment. If you don't pay the invoice, we'll also revert you to a basic account after three days.

What happens when my account expires?

We'll remind you when it's time to renew your account. If you choose not to renew, you'll have an opportunity to download your full set of archived bookmarks for safekeeping.

Once your paid account expires, you will no longer be able to see the archived copies of your bookmarks.

What are the conditions?

  • There is a 100 megabyte per-bookmark size limit. That includes all supporting files, stylesheets, images, embedded video, and other page dependencies. Bookmarks larger than this won't be archived.

    In practice, fewer than one in a thousand bookmarks exceeds the size limit. Your user profile page will list the bookmarks that were too big to store.

  • Due to the way our crawler works, we won't be able to archive bookmarks that require a login or are not visible from the public Internet.
  • Some pages with embedded Flash or heavy use of JavaScript (YouTube, GMail, Google Docs) will not archive correctly.
  • We reserve the right to terminate paid accounts for any reason. This is something we are only likely to do if you impose a truly unreasonable load on the service. If your account is terminated, we will refund you the pro-rated portion of your subscription fee and give you an opportunity to download your archived files.
  • Any content that is illegal to store under California law will be deleted.
  • Archived bookmarks are for your private use. If you want to share a archived bookmark with others, please copy it to your own server first.