tavily map

Prerequisites

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

When to use

• You need to find a specific subpage on a large site
• You want a list of all URLs before deciding what to extract or crawl
• Step 3 in the workflow: search → extract → map → crawl → research

Quick start

# Discover all URLs
tvly map "https://docs.example.com" --json

# With natural language filtering
tvly map "https://docs.example.com" --instructions "Find API docs and guides" --json

# Filter by path
tvly map "https://example.com" --select-paths "/blog/.*" --limit 500 --json

# Deep map
tvly map "https://example.com" --max-depth 3 --limit 200 --json

Options

--max-depth

--max-breadth

--limit

--instructions

--select-paths

--exclude-paths

--select-domains

--exclude-domains

--allow-external / --no-external

--timeout

-o, --output

--json

Map + Extract pattern

map

extract

# Step 1: Find the authentication docs
tvly map "https://docs.example.com" --instructions "authentication" --json

# Step 2: Extract the specific page you found
tvly extract "https://docs.example.com/api/authentication" --json

Tips

• Map is URL discovery only — no content extraction. Use

  extract

  or

  crawl

  for content.
• Map + extract beats crawl when you only need a few specific pages from a large site.
• Use

  --instructions

  for semantic filtering when path patterns aren't enough.

See also

• tavily-extract — extract content from URLs you discover
• tavily-crawl — bulk extract when you need many pages