tavily extract

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

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

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