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API Documentation
Summary
Documentation for xAI's Live Search feature, which enables the chat completions API to query live data sources (web, news, X posts) and incorporate them into model responses without manual orchestration.
Highlights
- Live Search is free during beta until June 5, 2025; using it means consenting to share request data with xAI
- Enabled via search_parameters field with mode set to 'auto', 'on', or 'off' in chat completions requests
- Default data sources are web and X posts; model automatically decides which source to use
- Supports returning citations to data sources via return_citations parameter
- Eliminates need to manually orchestrate web search and LLM tool calls
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Context
Audience
Developers building applications with xAI's Grok models who need real-time data in their chatbot responses
DomainAI API Development
FormatAPI reference guide
AccessFree during beta period; requires xAI API key
Source Overview
Using live data such as web, news or X posts for chat completions.
Topics
Related
xAI API Reference - Chat CompletionsGrok 3 modelsearch_parameters API fieldWeb search API integrationLLM tool calling patterns
