Tavily

Tavily

The robomotion tavily CLI connects to Tavily for AI-powered web search and content extraction. It searches the web with relevance scoring, extracts content from URLs, crawls websites to discover pages, and maps site structure — all with configurable depth and domain filtering.

When to use

• Search the web with AI-powered relevance scoring and topic filtering
• Extract clean content from one or more URLs
• Crawl websites starting from a root URL
• Map site structure to discover all URLs

Prerequisites

• robomotion CLI installed
• Package installed: robomotion install tavily
• Tavily API key configured via Robomotion vault

IMPORTANT: Session Mode Required for Multi-Step Operations

Each CLI command runs as a separate process — connection IDs from connect do NOT persist across calls. You MUST use --session on connect and pass --session-id to all subsequent commands.

Workflow

1. Install (once): robomotion install tavily
2. Connect with session:

   robomotion tavily tavily_connect --session --output json
   # → {"outClientId":"<client-id>","session_id":"<session-id>"}
   

3. Use the returned client-id and session-id in all subsequent commands:

   robomotion tavily tavily_search --client-id "<client-id>" --search-query <query> --session-id "<session-id>" --output json
   

4. Disconnect when done:

   robomotion tavily tavily_disconnect --client-id "<client-id>" --session-id "<session-id>" --output json
   

Always append --output json to get structured JSON results.

Commands Reference

• robomotion tavily tavily_connect --session --output json Connects to Tavily API and returns a client ID
• robomotion tavily tavily_disconnect --client-id --session-id "<session-id>" --output json Closes the Tavily connection and releases resources
• robomotion tavily tavily_search --client-id --search-query [--search-depth] [--topic] [--include-answer] [--time-range] [--5] [--include-raw-content] [--include-images] [--include-domains] [--exclude-domains] [--60] --session-id "<session-id>" --output json Searches the web using Tavily AI-powered search
• robomotion tavily tavily_extract --client-id --ur-ls [--extract-depth] [--format] [--include-images] [--60] --session-id "<session-id>" --output json Extracts content from one or more URLs using Tavily
• robomotion tavily tavily_crawl --client-id --url [--extract-depth] [--format] [--1] [--20] [--50] [--allow-external] [--150] --session-id "<session-id>" --output json Crawls a website starting from a root URL and extracts content from discovered pages
• robomotion tavily tavily_map --client-id --url [--1] [--20] [--50] [--allow-external] [--150] --session-id "<session-id>" --output json Maps a website to discover all URLs starting from a root URL

Environment

• ROBOMOTION_API_TOKEN (if vault credentials are needed)