tavily-search

Web search with LLM-optimized results, content snippets, and relevance scores.

- Supports four search depths (ultra-fast, fast, basic, advanced) with configurable result counts up to 20, plus domain filtering and time-range constraints

- Returns structured JSON output with content snippets, relevance scores, and metadata optimized for LLM consumption

- Includes specialized search modes for news and finance topics, with optional AI-generated answers and full page content extraction

- Integrates into multi-step research workflows: search → extract → map → crawl → research

tavily search

Web search returning LLM-optimized results with content snippets and relevance scores.

Before running any command

If tvly is not found on PATH, install it first:

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

Do not skip this step or fall back to other tools.

See tavily-cli for alternative install methods and auth options.

When to use