Tavily crawl integration

Integrate with the Tavily crawl tool using LangChain JavaScript.

Tavily is a search engine built specifically for AI agents (LLMs), delivering real-time, accurate, and factual results at speed. Tavily offers a Crawl endpoint that performs a structured web traversal from a starting URL, with built-in content extraction and intelligent discovery.

Overview

Integration details

Class	Package	PY support	Downloads	Version
TavilyCrawl	@langchain/tavily	✅

Tool features

Returns artifact	Native async	Return data	Pricing
❌	✅	base URL, page URL, raw content, images, favicon	1,000 free credits / month

Setup

The integration lives in the @langchain/tavily package, which you can install as shown below:

npm

npm install @langchain/tavily @langchain/core

yarn add @langchain/tavily @langchain/core

pnpm add @langchain/tavily @langchain/core

Credentials

Set up a Tavily API key and set it as an environment variable named TAVILY_API_KEY.

process.env.TAVILY_API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

It’s also helpful (but not needed) to set up LangSmith for best-in-class observability:

process.env.LANGSMITH_TRACING="true"
process.env.LANGSMITH_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Instantiation

The tool accepts the following parameters during instantiation:

• maxDepth (optional, number): Maximum number of hops from the starting URL. Default is 3.
• maxBreadth (optional, number): Maximum number of pages to crawl per level. Default is 50.
• limit (optional, number): Maximum total number of pages to crawl. Default is 100.
• instructions (optional, string): Natural-language instructions that guide the crawler.
• selectPaths (optional, string[]): Only crawl URLs containing these path regexes.
• selectDomains (optional, string[]): Only crawl these domain regexes.
• excludePaths (optional, string[]): Skip URLs containing these path regexes.
• excludeDomains (optional, string[]): Skip URLs from these domain regexes.
• allowExternal (optional, boolean): Allow the crawler to follow external links.
• extractDepth (optional, string): "basic" or "advanced" extraction depth for each crawled page. Default is "basic".
• format (optional, string): "markdown" or "text" content format. Default is "markdown".
• includeImages (optional, boolean): Include images discovered on each page. Default is false.

For a comprehensive overview of the available parameters, refer to the Tavily Crawl API documentation.

import { TavilyCrawl } from "@langchain/tavily";

const tool = new TavilyCrawl({
  maxDepth: 3,
  maxBreadth: 50,
  // limit: 100,
  // extractDepth: "basic",
  // format: "markdown",
  // includeImages: false,
  // allowExternal: false,
});

Invocation

Invoke directly with args

The Tavily crawl tool accepts the following arguments during invocation:

• url (required): The base URL to start crawling from.
• The following arguments can also be set during invocation: instructions, selectPaths, selectDomains, excludePaths, excludeDomains, allowExternal.

NOTE: The optional arguments are available for agents to dynamically set. If you set an argument during instantiation and then invoke the tool with a different value, the tool will use the value you passed during invocation.

await tool.invoke({ url: "https://docs.tavily.com" });

{
  "base_url": "https://docs.tavily.com",
  "results": [
    {
      "url": "https://docs.tavily.com/",
      "raw_content": "![light logo](https://mintcdn.com/tavilyai/HY1Rnt85q4usR4-R/logo/light.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=HY1Rnt85q4usR4-R&q=85&s=c5c878011f13d458af0997f3a540eb4f)\n![dark logo](https://mintcdn.com/tavilyai/HY1Rnt85q4usR4-R/logo/dark.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=HY1Rnt85q4usR4-R&q=85&s=1521677768a1f26b34a9ad86d04c62cc)\n\n##### Welcome\n\n## Documentation Index\n\nFetch the complete documentation index at: <https://docs.tavily.com/llms.txt>\n\nUse this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.\n\n# Build with Tavily\n\nYour journey to state-of-the-art web search starts right here.\n\n## Python SDK\n\n`pip install tavily-python`\n\n## JavaScript SDK\n\n`npm i @tavily/core`\n`from tavily import TavilyClient\n\ntavily_client = TavilyClient(api_key=\"tvly-YOUR_API_KEY\")\nresponse = tavily_client.search(\"Who is Leo Messi?\")\n\nprint(response)`\n`from tavily import TavilyClient\n\ntavily_client = TavilyClient(api_key=\"tvly-YOUR_API_KEY\")\nresponse = tavily_client.extract(\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence\")\n\nprint(response)`\n`from tavily import TavilyClient\n\ntavily_client = TavilyClient(api_key=\"tvly-YOUR_API_KEY\")\nresponse = tavily_client.crawl(\"https://docs.tavily.com\", instructions=\"Find all pages on the Python SDK\")\n\nprint(response)`\n`from tavily import TavilyClient\n\ntavily_client = TavilyClient(api_key=\"tvly-YOUR_API_KEY\")\nresponse = tavily_client.map(\"https://docs.tavily.com\")\n\nprint(response)`\n`from tavily import TavilyClient\n\ntavily_client = TavilyClient(api_key=\"tvly-YOUR_API_KEY\")\nresponse = tavily_client.research(\"What are the latest developments in AI?\")\n\nprint(response)`\n\n### Developer Resources\n\n## API Credits Overview\n\n## Rate Limits\n\n## Playground",
      "favicon": "https://docs.tavily.com/mintlify-assets/_mintlify/favicons/tavilyai/SXaxSfweEU3ftIlh/_generated/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png"
    },
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    },
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      "url": "https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/introduction",
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}

Invoke with ToolCall

We can also invoke the tool with a model-generated ToolCall, in which case a ToolMessage will be returned:

// This is usually generated by a model, but we'll create a tool call directly for demo purposes.
const modelGeneratedToolCall = {
  args: {
    url: "https://docs.tavily.com",
    instructions: "Find API reference pages",
  },
  id: "1",
  name: tool.name,
  type: "tool_call",
};

const toolMsg = await tool.invoke(modelGeneratedToolCall);

console.log(toolMsg.content.slice(0, 400));

Use within an agent

We can use the crawl tool directly with a LangChain agent by passing it to createAgent. The agent can dynamically set url, instructions, and the path/domain filters as part of its tool call.

// @lc-docs-hide-cell
import { ChatOpenAI } from "@langchain/openai";

const llm = new ChatOpenAI({
  model: "gpt-5.5",
  temperature: 0,
});

import { TavilyCrawl } from "@langchain/tavily";
import { createAgent } from "langchain";

const tavilyCrawlTool = new TavilyCrawl({
  maxDepth: 1,
  maxBreadth: 10,
  limit: 10,
});

const agent = createAgent({
  model: llm,
  tools: [tavilyCrawlTool],
});

const userInput = "Crawl https://docs.tavily.com and find the API reference for the search endpoint.";

const stream = await agent.streamEvents(
  { messages: [["human", userInput]] },
  { version: "v3" },
);

for await (const snapshot of stream.values) {
  const lastMsg = snapshot.messages[snapshot.messages.length - 1];
  if (lastMsg.tool_calls?.length) {
    console.dir(lastMsg.tool_calls, { depth: null });
  } else if (lastMsg.content) {
    console.log(lastMsg.content);
  }
}

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API reference

For detailed documentation of all Tavily Crawl API features and configurations head to the API reference: docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/crawl

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