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Tavily Extract

tavily-ai/tavily-extract

| Extract clean markdown or text content from specific URLs via the Tavily CLI. Use this skill when the user has one or more URLs and wants their content, says "extract", "grab the content from", "pull the text from", "get the page at", "read this webpage", or needs clean text from web pages. Handles JavaScript-rendered pages, returns LLM-optimized markdown, and supports query-focused chunking for targeted extraction. Can process up to 20 URLs in a single call.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/tavily-ai/skills --skill tavily-extract

What it tells the agent to use

found in the instruction text
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The instruction itself

8 sections, as written by the author

tavily extract

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

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

  • 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.md

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 output to 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).
  • 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

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take tavily-ai/tavily-extract from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.