Tavily Search

Search the web and get relevant results optimized for LLM consumption.

Authentication

Get your API key at https://tavily.com and add to your OpenClaw config:

{
  "skills": {
    "entries": {
      "tavily-search": {
        "enabled": true,
        "apiKey": "tvly-YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or set the environment variable:

export TAVILY_API_KEY="tvly-YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"

Quick Start

Using the Script

node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query"
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query" -n 10
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query" --deep
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "query" --topic news

Examples

# Basic search
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "python async patterns"

# With more results
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "React hooks tutorial" -n 10

# Advanced search
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "machine learning" --deep

# News search
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "AI news" --topic news

# Domain-filtered search
node {baseDir}/scripts/search.mjs "Python docs" --include-domains docs.python.org

Options

| Option | Description | Default |

|--------|-------------|---------|

| -n <count> | Number of results (1-20) | 10 |

| --depth <mode> | Search depth: ultra-fast, fast, basic, advanced | basic |

| --topic <topic> | Topic: general or news | general |

| --time-range <range> | Time range: day, week, month, year | - |

| --include-domains <domains> | Comma-separated domains to include | - |

| --exclude-domains <domains> | Comma-separated domains to exclude | - |

| --raw-content | Include full page content | false |

| --json | Output raw JSON | false |

Search Depth

|-------|---------|-----------|----------|

Tips

Keep queries under 400 characters - Think search query, not prompt
Break complex queries into sub-queries - Better results than one massive query
Use --include-domains to focus on trusted sources
Use --time-range for recent information
Filter by score (0-1) to get highest relevance results