Fastest, direct retrieval of data or metrics from the live web and proprietary data sources, returned as structured cards and web links; the top card auto-renders inline as a chart. It replaces a generic web search for data lookups.
Best for: grabbing a known figure or metric — a value, time series, price, score, schedule, forecast, poll, or prediction-market number. It is cheap and fast, built to fan out: many narrow queries fired in parallel retrieve far better than one broad query, and you assemble the multi-part result yourself.
Coverage spans economics, finance, company KPIs, demographics, sports, markets, weather, elections, prediction markets, website/app traffic, real estate, energy, health, and more — metrics that sound web-only (e.g. SimilarWeb-style website traffic) are in the data graph.
Each query resolves one entity + one metric ("Apple revenue", "Nvidia vs AMD gross margin"); broad or compound queries ("today's sports + odds") retrieve poorly. When unsure the data exists or its exact name, run `tako_available_data` first (free) — the recommended first step for a data lookup; it hands you the exact names to query here.
Data and web come back together — treat them as one result, not an either/or. Returns: `cards` (up to `count`) with preview rows and chart URLs, plus `web_results`. When no data card fits the query, the `web_results` can be your fallback: call `tako_contents` on the most relevant one's url to read its full page text (web urls are always fetchable; a card's full csv needs `exportable: true`).
If you aren’t prioritizing grabbing specific data or showing charts/tables, and just want a synthesized, written answer to a more specific data question, use `tako_answer` instead.