🪄 [FREE] PerplexPorter — Chrome Extension That Exports All Perplexity Convos

[M.Hassan_Ali]

[FREE TOOL] PerplexPorter — Export Every Perplexity AI Conversation to Markdown + JSON Locally

Free Chrome extension. Bypasses Perplexity’s 300-thread API ceiling, exports every convo as Markdown or JSON. Local-only.

Perplexity tightened Pro limits → your years of research are hostage on their servers. PerplexPorter rescues all of it.

Repo: github.com/HassanAliMAli/PerplexPorter

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🧠 Why bother — 30 sec

Perplexity hides every chat older than ~300 behind their API. You can’t see them, can’t export them through the UI, can’t get them back if your account dies. Your research = locked.

PerplexPorter cross-references 3 endpoints + DOM scraping to find EVERY thread you ever made — even archived ones — and ships them as clean files to your laptop.

🍿 What you get

Loot	Plain English
Full convo export	Every thread, every message, every source link
Markdown OR JSON	Markdown for reading, JSON for re-ingesting into another tool
Delta export	Already exported once? Next run only grabs NEW threads. Smart.
Auto-scroll	Loads lazy-loaded old chats automatically before exporting
Self-healing	Closed the tab mid-export? Re-pings the script, picks up from where it stopped
Zero telemetry	Nothing leaves your browser. No analytics, no remote calls.
Non-blocking	Runs async, UI stays smooth, you can keep working
Premium UI	Glassmorphic dark theme, not the usual extension-store ugliness

📥 Install — Chrome / Brave / Edge / Opera

Not in the Web Store (extensions like this rarely are). Manual install, 30 seconds:

1. Clone or download the repo:

git clone https://github.com/HassanAliMAli/PerplexPorter.git

(or download ZIP from GitHub → extract)
2. Open chrome://extensions/ in your browser
3. Toggle Developer Mode (top-right)
4. Click Load unpacked → pick the PerplexPorter/ folder
5. Pin it to your toolbar (puzzle icon → pin)

🎮 Use it — 60 seconds

1. Go to perplexity.ai/library
2. (Optional) click Auto Scroll to Bottom to load really old threads
3. Click the PerplexPorter icon → pick Markdown or JSON
4. Click Export Visible Threads
5. Browser auto-downloads everything

The delta export trick: run it once → exports everything. Run it again next month → only NEW threads since last run. Build a complete archive over time, zero duplicates.

🎯 What to actually do with the export

Play	Why it slaps
Re-ingest into ChatGPT / Claude	JSON format = paste into any new AI for “continue where I left off”
Personal RAG database	Feed all .md files into a local LLM (Ollama / LM Studio) → query your own brain
Obsidian / Notion import	Markdown drops straight into your second brain
Audit your own AI usage	“What did I research the most this year?” — grep across all .md
Account-death insurance	Perplexity bans your account? Cancels their pro tier? You still own everything
Build a knowledge base	Years of research, now searchable locally with grep or any text indexer

🛡️ Catch check

Q	A
Free?	Yes. MIT licensed.
Safe?	Open source, code auditable on GitHub. Zero external requests beyond Perplexity’s own API.
Logs into Perplexity for me?	No — uses your already-logged-in session cookie. Only sends requests Perplexity is already expecting.
Perplexity ban risk?	Throttled (100ms between requests). Acts like a normal user. Same risk as you scrolling fast.
Works on other AIs?	No — Perplexity-specific. For ChatGPT exports use the AI Chat Transfer thread.
Pro plan needed?	Free Perplexity works too — exports whatever you have access to

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Simple-pimple: clone repo → load unpacked in Chrome → visit Perplexity Library → click export. Your entire AI research history, in your hands, in Markdown or JSON, forever. Do it BEFORE Perplexity decides to wall things off further.

Your research isn’t theirs to hold hostage anymore.