Tavily MCP Server
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAVILY_API_KEY | Yes | Your Tavily API key for accessing Tavily's search and data extraction capabilities |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Server capabilities have not been inspected yet.
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| tavily-searchA | A powerful web search tool that provides comprehensive, real-time results using Tavily's AI search engine. Returns relevant web content with customizable parameters for result count, content type, and domain filtering. Ideal for gathering current information, news, and detailed web content analysis. |
| tavily-extractC | A powerful web content extraction tool that retrieves and processes raw content from specified URLs, ideal for data collection, content analysis, and research tasks. |
| tavily-crawlA | A powerful web crawler that initiates a structured web crawl starting from a specified base URL. The crawler expands from that point like a tree, following internal links across pages. You can control how deep and wide it goes, and guide it to focus on specific sections of the site. |
| tavily-mapA | A powerful web mapping tool that creates a structured map of website URLs, allowing you to discover and analyze site structure, content organization, and navigation paths. Perfect for site audits, content discovery, and understanding website architecture. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
TDQS
Scored across 4 tools
Each tool has a clearly distinct purpose: crawling (tavily-crawl) explores site structure, extraction (tavily-extract) retrieves content from URLs, mapping (tavily-map) analyzes site architecture, and searching (tavily-search) finds web information. There is no overlap in functionality, making tool selection straightforward for an agent.
All tool names follow a consistent 'tavily-verb' pattern (tavily-crawl, tavily-extract, tavily-map, tavily-search). This uniform naming convention enhances readability and predictability, with no deviations in style or structure.
With 4 tools, the server is well-scoped for web-related tasks, covering crawling, extraction, mapping, and searching. Each tool earns its place by addressing a specific aspect of web interaction without redundancy or excessive complexity.
The tool set provides comprehensive coverage for web content discovery and analysis, including search, extraction, and structural mapping. A minor gap exists in lacking explicit tools for content manipulation or summarization, but core workflows are fully supported.