tavily-extract

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Extract clean markdown or text content from specific URLs via the Tavily CLI. Use this skill when the user has one or more URLs and wants their content, says "extract", "grab the content from", "pull the text from", "get the page at", "read this webpage", or needs clean text from web pages. Handles JavaScript-rendered pages, returns LLM-optimized markdown, and supports query-focused chunking for targeted extraction. Can process up to 20 URLs in a single call.

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Added on2026-03-17

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tavily extract

Extract clean markdown or text content from one or more URLs.

Prerequisites

Requires the Tavily CLI. See tavily-cli for install and auth setup.

Quick install:

curl -fsSL https://cli.tavily.com/install.sh | bash && tvly login

When to use

You have a specific URL and want its content
You need text from JavaScript-rendered pages
Step 2 in the workflow: search → extract → map → crawl → research

Quick start

bash

# Single URL
tvly extract "https://example.com/article" --json

# Multiple URLs
tvly extract "https://example.com/page1" "https://example.com/page2" --json

# Query-focused extraction (returns relevant chunks only)
tvly extract "https://example.com/docs" --query "authentication API" --chunks-per-source 3 --json

# JS-heavy pages
tvly extract "https://app.example.com" --extract-depth advanced --json

# Save to file
tvly extract "https://example.com/article" -o article.md

Options

Option	Description
`--query`	Rerank chunks by relevance to this query
`--chunks-per-source`	Chunks per URL (1-5, requires `--query` )
`--extract-depth`	`basic` (default) or `advanced` (for JS pages)
`--format`	`markdown` (default) or `text`
`--include-images`	Include image URLs
`--timeout`	Max wait time (1-60 seconds)
`-o, --output`	Save output to file
`--json`	Structured JSON output

Extract depth

Depth	When to use
`basic`	Simple pages, fast — try this first
`advanced`	JS-rendered SPAs, dynamic content, tables

Tips

Max 20 URLs per request — batch larger lists into multiple calls.
Use
--query
+
--chunks-per-source
to get only relevant content instead of full pages.
Try
basic
first, fall back to
```
advanced
```
if content is missing.
Set
--timeout
for slow pages (up to 60s).
If search results already contain the content you need (via
```
--include-raw-content
```
), skip the extract step.