tavily-crawl — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited tavily-crawl (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
Findings & checks · 0 flagged
Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Crawl a website and extract content from multiple pages. Supports saving each page as a local markdown file.
Crawl requires authentication. Run the requested command directly when tvly is already authenticated; do not add a status check to every invocation.
If tvly is missing, follow the tavily-cli setup. If an installed CLI reports an authentication error, use tvly login for authentication only, or tvly init --skip-skills when guided verification is also useful. Browser-based OAuth is preferred when an interactive user can complete it. --no-browser prints the sign-in link instead of opening it, but still waits for a localhost callback. In an unattended agent or CI environment, leave authentication to the user or use a securely provided TAVILY_API_KEY. Do not start a second login immediately after guided setup has completed.
/docs/)# Basic crawl
tvly crawl "https://docs.example.com" --json
# Save each page as a markdown file
tvly crawl "https://docs.example.com" --output-dir ./docs/
# Deeper crawl with limits
tvly crawl "https://docs.example.com" --max-depth 2 --limit 50 --json
# Filter to specific paths
tvly crawl "https://example.com" --select-paths "/api/.*,/guides/.*" --exclude-paths "/blog/.*" --json
# Semantic focus (returns relevant chunks, not full pages)
tvly crawl "https://docs.example.com" --instructions "Find authentication docs" --chunks-per-source 3 --json| Option | Description |
|---|---|
--max-depth | Levels deep (1-5, default: 1) |
--max-breadth | Links per page (default: 20) |
--limit | Total pages cap (default: 50) |
--instructions | Natural language guidance for semantic focus |
--chunks-per-source | Chunks per page (1-5, requires --instructions) |
--extract-depth | basic (default) or advanced |
--format | markdown (default) or text |
--select-paths | Comma-separated regex patterns to include |
--exclude-paths | Comma-separated regex patterns to exclude |
--select-domains | Comma-separated regex for domains to include |
--exclude-domains | Comma-separated regex for domains to exclude |
--allow-external / --no-external | Include external links (default: allow) |
--include-images | Include images |
--timeout | Max wait (10-150 seconds) |
-o, --output | Save JSON output to file |
--output-dir | Save each page as a .md file in directory |
--json | Structured JSON output |
For agentic use (feeding results to an LLM):
Always use --instructions + --chunks-per-source. Returns only relevant chunks instead of full pages — prevents context explosion.
tvly crawl "https://docs.example.com" --instructions "API authentication" --chunks-per-source 3 --jsonFor data collection (saving to files):
Use --output-dir without --chunks-per-source to get full pages as markdown files.
tvly crawl "https://docs.example.com" --max-depth 2 --output-dir ./docs/--max-depth 1, --limit 20 — and scale up.~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.