Switching from Pinboard

Batata is built for people who love Pinboard. Same values — fast, private, no social feed, your data is yours — plus the part Pinboard never built: full-text archive, search by meaning, and an Ask that answers from your own pages, with citations.

What carries over

Export your library from Pinboard and import it in one click. Everything comes with it:

• URLs, titles, and your notes (Pinboard's “extended” field)
• All your tags
• Original save dates
• The public/private flag

Archiving, summaries, and embeddings run in the background after import, so large libraries come in fast and get richer over the next few minutes. See the step-by-step import guide.

Keep your tools — the API is compatible

Batata speaks Pinboard's read API. Point your existing Pinboard scripts and clients at batata.page and they keep working — including the familiar username:TOKEN auth format.

# create a token in Settings, then:
curl "https://batata.page/v1/posts/all?auth_token=YOURNAME:YOURTOKEN&format=json"
curl "https://batata.page/v1/posts/recent?auth_token=YOURNAME:YOURTOKEN"

Full endpoint list in the API reference.

Your data stays yours

Export your entire library as JSON anytime — no lock-in, no social feed, no firehose. After watching Delicious, Pocket, and Omnivore all shut down, we think portability isn't a feature; it's the whole point.

What you gain over Pinboard

• Full-text archive of every page — searchable, included free (Pinboard charges extra for archiving)
• Search by meaning— find “the article about idempotency keys” without the exact words
• Ask your library — answers built only from your saved pages, each claim cited to its source
• Auto-summary and suggested tags on every save