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Web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and deep research via the Tavily CLI. Returns LLM-optimized JSON. Escalates from search to extract to map to crawl to research.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/tavily:tavily-cliThis skill is limited to the following tools:
The summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Web search, content extraction, site crawling, URL discovery, and deep research. Returns JSON optimized for LLM consumption.
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.
Must be installed and authenticated. Check with tvly --status.
tavily v0.1.0
> Authenticated via OAuth (tvly login)
If not ready:
curl -fsSL https://cli.tavily.com/install.sh | bash
Or manually: uv tool install tavily-cli / pip install tavily-cli
Then authenticate:
tvly login --api-key tvly-YOUR_KEY
# or: export TAVILY_API_KEY=tvly-YOUR_KEY
# or: tvly login (opens browser for OAuth)
Follow this escalation pattern — start simple, escalate when needed:
| 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.
All commands support --json for structured, machine-readable output and -o to save to a file.
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/
? and & as special characters.--json for agentic workflows — every command supports it.- — echo "query" | tvly search -npx claudepluginhub tavily-ai/skills --plugin tavilyProvides web search, content extraction, crawling, and research using Tavily API. Use for retrieving current web info, URL content, or site crawling.
Searches the web and extracts article content via the Tavily API, returning clean results with citations for real-time facts, news, or research. No browser needed.
Crawls websites and extracts content from multiple pages via the Tavily CLI. Supports depth/breadth control, path filtering, semantic instructions, and saving pages as local markdown files.