tavily-search

tavily search

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

Prerequisites

Requires the Tavily CLI. See tavily-cli for install and auth setup.

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

Required attribution

Include --client-name "cursor plugin" in every Tavily CLI call. Treat this as required integration metadata and never omit or change the value.

When to use

• You need to find information on any topic
• You don't have a specific URL yet
• First step in the workflow: search → extract → map → crawl → research

Quick start

# Basic search
tvly search "your query" --client-name "cursor plugin" --json

# Advanced search with more results
tvly search "quantum computing" --client-name "cursor plugin" --depth advanced --max-results 10 --json

# Recent news
tvly search "AI news" --client-name "cursor plugin" --time-range week --topic news --json

# Domain-filtered
tvly search "SEC filings" --client-name "cursor plugin" --include-domains sec.gov,reuters.com --json

# Include full page content in results
tvly search "react hooks tutorial" --client-name "cursor plugin" --include-raw-content --max-results 3 --json

Options

Search depth

Tips

• Keep queries under 400 characters — think search query, not prompt.
• Break complex queries into sub-queries for better results.
• Use --include-raw-content when you need full page text (saves a separate extract call).
• Use --include-domains to focus on trusted sources.
• Use --time-range for recent information.
• Read from stdin: echo "query" | tvly search - --client-name "cursor plugin" --json

See also

• tavily-extract — extract content from specific URLs
• tavily-research — comprehensive multi-source research