tavily-cli

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Web search, content extraction, crawling, and deep research via the Tavily CLI. Use this skill whenever the user wants to search the web, find articles, research a topic, look something up online, extract content from a URL, grab text from a webpage, crawl documentation, download a site's pages, discover URLs on a domain, or conduct in-depth research with citations. Also use when they say "fetch this page", "pull the content from", "get the page at https://", "find me articles about", or reference extracting data from external websites. This provides LLM-optimized web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and AI-powered deep research — capabilities beyond what agents can do natively. Do NOT trigger for local file operations, git commands, deployments, or code editing tasks.

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Added on2026-03-17

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npx skill4agent add tavily-ai/skills tavily-cli

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Tavily CLI

Web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and deep research. Returns JSON optimized for LLM consumption.

Run

tvly --help

or

tvly <command> --help

for full option details.

Prerequisites

Must be installed and authenticated. Check with

tvly --status

.

bash

tavily v0.1.0

> Authenticated via OAuth (tvly login)

If not ready:

bash

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

Or manually:

uv tool install tavily-cli

/

pip install tavily-cli

Then authenticate:

bash

tvly login --api-key tvly-YOUR_KEY
# or: export TAVILY_API_KEY=tvly-YOUR_KEY
# or: tvly login  (opens browser for OAuth)

Workflow

Follow this escalation pattern — start simple, escalate when needed:

Search — No specific URL. Find pages, answer questions, discover sources.
Extract — Have a URL. Pull its content directly.
Map — Large site, need to find the right page. Discover URLs first.
Crawl — Need bulk content from an entire site section.
Research — Need comprehensive, multi-source analysis with citations.

Need	Command	When
Find pages on a topic	`tvly search`	No specific URL yet
Get a page's content	`tvly extract`	Have a URL
Find URLs within a site	`tvly map`	Need to locate a specific subpage
Bulk extract a site section	`tvly crawl`	Need many pages (e.g., all /docs/)
Deep research with citations	`tvly research`	Need multi-source synthesis

For detailed command reference, use the individual skill for each command (e.g.,

tavily-search

,

tavily-crawl

) or run

tvly <command> --help

.

Output

All commands support

--json

for structured, machine-readable output and

-o

to save to a file.

bash

tvly search "react hooks" --json -o results.json
tvly extract "https://example.com/docs" -o docs.md
tvly crawl "https://docs.example.com" --output-dir ./docs/

Tips

Always quote URLs — shell interprets
```
?
```
and
```
&
```
as special characters.
Use
--json
for agentic workflows — every command supports it.
Read from stdin with
-
—
```
echo "query" | tvly search -
```
Exit codes: 0 = success, 2 = bad input, 3 = auth error, 4 = API error.

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