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xAI Adds Official Firecrawl Plugin to Grok Build

June 23, 2026 at 17:45 EDT

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On June 23, 2026, xAI announced that it had added Firecrawl's official plugin to the plugin marketplace of Grok Build, its agentic coding CLI. The plugin lets users run web search, scraping, and page interaction directly from the terminal, with 1,000 free monthly credits offered initially.

June 23, 2026 · xAI

Firecrawl Plugin Lands in the Grok Build Marketplace

xAI's terminal coding agent gains official web search and scraping. Install with one click via /plugin, sign in through browser OAuth — no API key setup required.

138.1K

GitHub stars

1.3M+

Developers using it

150K+

Companies onboard

Requests processed (cumulative)

Five capabilities the plugin adds

Web search Web / news / image sources, with optional scraping of results

Single-page fetch Scrape any page with JS rendering support

URL mapping Retrieve the URL structure of an entire site

Crawl Traverse and fetch a full site

Live browser actions Clicks, form input, pagination, login, and more

All include automatic JS rendering, anti-bot handling, and proxy rotation — output as clean Markdown or structured data.

Setup flow — from zero to first search

1 · Open

Run /plugin in Grok Build

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2 · Add

Search "firecrawl," one-click install

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3 · Sign in

Browser OAuth — no API key

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4 · Use

Free tier: 1,000 credits / month

Easy adoption

Grok Build keeps skill-format compatibility with Claude Code, so migration is relatively easy. Runs via a hosted MCP server with results tucked into a .firecrawl/ directory.

Caveats to note

When MCP is unavailable, switch to the CLI (npm install -g firecrawl-cli). Parsing local files requires an additional install. Licensed under AGPL-3.0.

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