Tavily Extract Agent Skill

| 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.

725 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

443

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

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

Bash runs shell commands — read the instruction before connecting

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.

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