Is Perplexity to obsidian - Batch Export safe?

Medium risk

Perplexity to obsidian - Batch Export sends export telemetry with conversation URLs, titles, client ID, and email to cf-node-api.aluo.app.

When you export Perplexity content, the extension records export actions and sends them to cf-node-api.aluo.app. The telemetry can include the conversation URL, thread title or UUID, batch counts, a persistent client ID, subscription state, and an email value stored from Perplexity or Notion account data.

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Who publishes it

aluojack - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Same store account

1 other listing published from this account, 2k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

Shared hosts - 1 hostname

Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.

cf-node-api.aluo.app
Also called by 2 other listings, including ChatGPT Prompts Hub

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Findings

Export telemetry sends conversation URLs and titles to cf-node-api

Using the export features in Perplexity to obsidian - Batch Export sends export telemetry to cf-node-api.aluo.app, including the Perplexity conversation URL, conversation title, a stored client ID, and an email value from extension storage.

Severity
Medium unwanted
Type
Unexpected
CWE
CWE-359
Source
Dynamic sandbox
What actually happens
You did this

The user starts, completes, cancels, or encounters an error during an export.

The extension did this

The extension sends an export log containing the conversation URL, title-related data, stored client ID, and email value to cf-node-api.aluo.app.

Captured request
POSThttps://cf-node-api.aluo.app/
Fields in the export telemetry request
  • Perplexity conversation URL
    https://www.perplexity.ai/search/example-thread (illustrative)

    Links the export event to a specific Perplexity thread.

  • Conversation title
    Research notes for project planning (illustrative)

    Adds readable context about the exported Perplexity thread.

  • Stored account and client data
    clientId d7f3a1b2-... and user@example.com (illustrative)

    Can connect the export event to a stored client ID and email value from extension storage.

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Perplexity to obsidian - Batch Export contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.

  • cf-node-api.aluo.app

    Perplexity to obsidian - Batch Export sends data to cf-node-api.aluo.app. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026afmlkbanimddphcomahlfbaandfphjfk