Tavily Python Wrapper

The Tavily Python wrapper allows for easy interaction with the Tavily API, offering the full range of our search and extract functionalities directly from your Python programs. Easily integrate smart search and content extraction capabilities into your applications, harnessing Tavily's powerful search and extract features.

Installing

pip install tavily-python

Tavily Search

Search lets you search the web for a given query.

Usage

Below are some code snippets that show you how to interact with our search API. The different steps and components of this code are explained in more detail in the API Methods section further down.

Getting and printing the full Search API response

from tavily import TavilyClient

# Step 1. Instantiating your TavilyClient
tavily_client = TavilyClient(api_key="tvly-YOUR_API_KEY")

# Step 2. Executing a simple search query
response = tavily_client.search("Who is Leo Messi?")

# Step 3. That's it! You've done a Tavily Search!
print(response)

This is equivalent to directly querying our REST API.

Generating context for a RAG Application

from tavily import TavilyClient

# Step 1. Instantiating your TavilyClient
tavily_client = TavilyClient(api_key="tvly-YOUR_API_KEY")

# Step 2. Executing a context search query
context = tavily_client.get_search_context(query="What happened during the Burning Man floods?")

# Step 3. That's it! You now have a context string that you can feed directly into your RAG Application
print(context)

This is how you can generate precise and fact-based context for your RAG application in one line of code.

Getting a quick answer to a question

from tavily import TavilyClient

# Step 1. Instantiating your TavilyClient
tavily_client = TavilyClient(api_key="tvly-YOUR_API_KEY")

# Step 2. Executing a Q&A search query
answer = tavily_client.qna_search(query="Who is Leo Messi?")

# Step 3. That's it! Your question has been answered!
print(answer)

This is how you get accurate and concise answers to questions, in one line of code. Perfect for usage by LLMs!

Tavily Extract

Extract web page content from one or more specified URLs.

Usage

Below are some code snippets that demonstrate how to interact with our Extract API. Each step and component of this code is explained in greater detail in the API Methods section below.

Extracting Raw Content from Multiple URLs using Tavily Extract API

from tavily import TavilyClient

# Step 1. Instantiating your TavilyClient
tavily_client = TavilyClient(api_key="tvly-YOUR_API_KEY")

# Step 2. Defining the list of URLs to extract content from
urls = [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change"
] # You can provide up to 20 URLs simultaneously

# Step 3. Executing the extract request
response = tavily_client.extract(urls=urls, include_images=True)

# Step 4. Printing the extracted raw content
for result in response["results"]:
    print(f"URL: {result['url']}")
    print(f"Raw Content: {result['raw_content']}")
    print(f"Images: {result['images']}\n")

# Note that URLs that could not be extracted will be stored in response["failed_results"]

Tavily Crawl (Open-Access Beta)

Crawl lets you traverse a website's content starting from a base URL.

Note: Crawl is currently available on an invite-only basis. For more information, please visit crawl.tavily.com

Usage

Below are some code snippets that demonstrate how to interact with our Crawl API. Each step and component of this code is explained in greater detail in the API Methods section below.

Crawling a website with instructions

from tavily import TavilyClient

# Step 1. Instantiating your TavilyClient
tavily_client = TavilyClient(api_key="tvly-YOUR_API_KEY")

# Step 2. Defining the starting URL
start_url = "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon"

# Step 3. Executing the crawl request with instructions to surface only pages about citrus fruits
response = tavily_client.crawl(
    url=start_url,
    max_depth=3,
    limit=50,
    instructions="Find all pages on citrus fruits"
)

# Step 4. Printing pages matching the query
for result in response["results"]:
    print(f"URL: {result['url']}")
    print(f"Snippet: {result['raw_content'][:200]}...\n")

Tavily Map (Open-Access Beta)

Map lets you discover and visualize the structure of a website starting from a base URL.

Usage

Below are some code snippets that demonstrate how to interact with our Map API. Each step and component of this code is explained in greater detail in the API Methods section below.

Mapping a website with instructions

from tavily import TavilyClient

# Step 1. Instantiating your TavilyClient
tavily_client = TavilyClient(api_key="tvly-YOUR_API_KEY")

# Step 2. Defining the starting URL
start_url = "https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon"

# Step 3. Executing the map request with parameters to focus on specific pages
response = tavily_client.map(
    url=start_url,
    max_depth=2,
    limit=30,
    instructions="Find pages on citrus fruits"
)

# Step 4. Printing the site structure
for result in response["results"]:
    print(f"URL: {result['url']}")

Documentation

For a complete guide on how to use the different endpoints and their parameters, please head to our Python API Reference.

Cost

Tavily is free for personal use for up to 1,000 credits per month.
Head to the Credits & Pricing in our documentation to learn more about how many API credits each request costs.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

If you are encountering issues while using Tavily, please email us at support@tavily.com. We'll be happy to help you.

If you want to stay updated on the latest Tavily news and releases, head to our Developer Community to learn more!

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