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title: "Tavily Search and Extract API / Retrieve raw web content from specified URLs"
description: "Tavily Search and Extract API tool tavily-extract on looot: input fields, $0.0016 per result, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Extract web page content from one or more specified URLs using Tavily Extract.

- **Tool id:** `tavily-extract`
- **Provider:** [Tavily Search and Extract API](/providers/tavily)
- **Job:** [Get extract](/reference/jobs/extract-get) (`extract.get`)
- **Price:** $0.0016 per result. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `chunks_per_source` | integer | no | Chunks are short content snippets (maximum 500 characters each) pulled directly from the source. Use `chunks_per_source` to define the maximum number of relevant chunks returned per source and to control the `raw_content` length. Chunks will appear in the `raw_content` field as: `<chunk 1> [...] <chunk 2> [...] <chunk 3>`. Available only when `query` is provided. Must be between 1 and 5. |
| `extract_depth` | string | no | The depth of the extraction process. `advanced` extraction retrieves more data, including tables and embedded content, with higher success but may increase latency.`basic` extraction costs 1 credit per 5 successful URL extractions, while `advanced` extraction costs 2 credits per 5 successful URL extractions. |
| `format` | string | no | The format of the extracted web page content. `markdown` returns content in markdown format. `text` returns plain text and may increase latency. |
| `include_favicon` | boolean | no | Whether to include the favicon URL for each result. |
| `include_images` | boolean | no | Include a list of images extracted from the URLs in the response. Default is false. |
| `include_usage` | boolean | no | Whether to include credit usage information in the response. `NOTE:`The value may be 0 if the total successful URL extractions has not yet reached 5 calls. See our [Credits & Pricing documentation](https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits) for details. |
| `query` | string | no | User intent for reranking extracted content chunks. When provided, chunks are reranked based on relevance to this query. |
| `timeout` | number | no | Maximum time in seconds to wait for the URL extraction before timing out. Must be between 1.0 and 60.0 seconds. If not specified, default timeouts are applied based on extract_depth: 10 seconds for basic extraction and 30 seconds for advanced extraction. |
| `urls` | array | yes | One or more URLs to extract content from (Tavily accepts up to 5 per request). |

## Output

Shape of the run's `result`, checked against 2 real answers:

```txt
{ results: { url, title, images: unknown[], raw_content }[], request_id, response_time, failed_results: unknown[] }
```

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"tavily-extract","input":{"urls":[]},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "tavily-extract",
    input: {
      urls: [],
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "tavily-extract",
        "input": {
            "urls": [],
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

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To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:extract.get` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/extract-get).