🔍 Tavily Search Tutorial

📅 March 2026 ⏱️ 3 min read 🏷️ Search, AI

Tavily is an AI-optimized search engine that returns concise, relevant results for AI agents. Perfect for research and information retrieval.

Installation

pip install tavily
# or
skillhub install tavily-search

API Key Setup

  1. Get your API key from tavily.com
  2. Set environment variable: export TAVILY_API_KEY="your_key"

Basic Usage

Python

from tavily import TavilyClient

client = TavilyClient(api_key="your_api_key")
results = client.search("What is ChatGPT?")
for result in results['results']:
    print(result['title'], result['url'])

Key Features

  • AI-optimized search results
  • Concise, relevant answers
  • Source citations included
  • Fast response time
  • No API key required for basic use