Search
Searches in Tavily.
This node is also exposed as an AI Agent tool.
This node has 1 input port and 1 output port.
Common Properties
Every node shares these.
- Name — the node's display name on the canvas.
- Color — the node's colour on the canvas.
- Delay Before (sec) — wait this long before the node runs.
- Delay After (sec) — wait this long after the node runs.
- Continue On Error — carry on instead of failing the flow. Defaults to false.
info
When Continue On Error is true the error is not raised at all, so a Catch node will not see it either.
Inputs
| Property | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Client ID | inClientID | Client ID from Connect node (optional if credentials provided) |
| Search Query | inQuery | The search query to execute |
Outputs
| Property | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Answer | outAnswer | AI-generated answer summary (if requested) |
| Result | outResult | Full search response including results array |
Options
| Property | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Credentials | optCredentials | Tavily API key (optional if Connect node is used) |
| Exclude Domains | optExcludeDomains | Comma-separated domains to exclude from results |
| Include Answer | optIncludeAnswer | Include an AI-generated answer summary One of: NONE, basic, advanced. |
| Include Domains | optIncludeDomains | Comma-separated domains to restrict results (e.g. docs.python.org，stackoverflow.com) |
| Include Images | optIncludeImages | Include image search results |
| Include Raw Content | optIncludeRawContent | Include cleaned full page content for each result |
| Max Results | optMaxResults | Maximum number of results (1-20) |
| Search Depth | optSearchDepth | Basic is faster，advanced provides more thorough results One of: basic, advanced. |
| Time Range | optTimeRange | Filter results by publication date One of: NONE, day, week, month, year. |
| Timeout (seconds) | optTimeout | Maximum time in seconds to wait for results |
| Topic | optTopic | Search category for optimized results One of: general, news, finance. |
Requirements
- A Client ID from this package's Connect node, unless you set credentials directly on this node.
- Tavily API Key — API key for Tavily AI search
value— API Key (password, required). Your Tavily API key
Store these in a Vault and reference the vault item from the node, rather than typing the secret into the property.
Related nodes
Connect · Disconnect · Extract · Crawl · Map · Toolkit
See also
- Tavily — every node in this package
- Message object — how properties read values from
msg - Handling failure — Continue On Error, Catch and retries