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polite-crawler for Grok

io.github.mark1russell7/polite-crawler

A polite crawler for agents: obeys robots.txt, fetches each page once, finds and verifies quotes.

client:Grok transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install polite-crawler in Grok

.mcp.json (in your project root)

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "polite-crawler": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "polite-crawler"
      ],
      "env": {
        "POLITE_CRAWLER_DIR": "<POLITE_CRAWLER_DIR>",
        "POLITE_CRAWLER_CONTACT": "<POLITE_CRAWLER_CONTACT>",
        "POLITE_CRAWLER_ALLOW_PRIVATE": "<POLITE_CRAWLER_ALLOW_PRIVATE>",
        "POLITE_CRAWLER_ALLOW_USER_PROVIDED": "<POLITE_CRAWLER_ALLOW_USER_PROVIDED>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Grok Build reads Claude Code's .mcp.json and Claude Desktop's config unchanged, so a server you have already set up there needs nothing new. The Grok web app and X integration do not take custom servers. Grok docs

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