tavily-extract

SKILL.md

tavily extract

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

Before running

Run extract directly when tvly is available. Extract supports capped keyless
access, so do not look for an API key or authenticate before the first request.

If tvly is missing, follow the tavily-cli setup
before retrying. If the keyless cap is reached in an interactive session, run
tvly login to open browser OAuth, then retry the original extraction once. In
an unattended environment, report the cap and authentication options instead
of starting an interactive flow. Do not start a second login immediately after
guided setup has completed.

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

# 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.json

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 the JSON response to a 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).

Inspect failed_results even after exit code 0. A successful request can
still return no extracted pages. Retry the affected URL with advanced when
appropriate, otherwise report the per-URL failure instead of treating the
request as complete.

If search results already contain the content you need (via --include-raw-content), skip the extract step.

See also

tavily-search — find pages when you don't have a URL

tavily-crawl — extract content from many pages on a site