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Tavily Make integrationAutomate Tavily with Make.

Need fresh web research inside your automations without writing a line of code? The Tavily Make integration gives you 4 action modules: search the web, crawl a site, pull raw page content, or call the API directly. This page walks you through the connection and a first scenario.

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What you can automate

What can the Tavily Make integration do for you?

The Tavily Make integration lets a Make scenario, the automation you build as a chain of bricks called modules, ask Tavily to search the web, crawl a website or fetch the content of pages. The results come back as bundles, one item each, that the next module can store, send or summarize.

A research feed for a sales team. When a new company lands in your CRM, Perform a Search looks it up on the web, and the results travel to the next module of the scenario, for example a note on the record.

A content archive for a marketing team. Crawl a Website walks through a site you name and returns what it read, ready to be written to a sheet or a document.

A clean input for an AI step. You already have a list of links; Extract Raw Content fetches their text so the next module works on the page itself, not just the address.

Limits worth knowing: Tavily has no trigger in Make, so a scenario starts on a schedule or on another app's event. The Make documentation page for Tavily is itself flagged as AI-generated from Tavily's docs, so check anything critical with Tavily. Many apps also have an n8n node; the n8n vs Make comparison helps you choose. To go further, see our Make training or the Make pricing page.

Connect

How do you connect Tavily to Make?

  1. 01

    Copy your Tavily API key

    You need an active Tavily account. Log in, open your dashboard and copy the API key shown there. Keep it at hand: Make asks for it once, then every Tavily module reuses the same connection.

  2. 02

    Add a Tavily module and open the connection window

    In your Make scenario, add any Tavily module and click Create a connection. The Connection name field is optional; a clear name helps when you later run several Tavily accounts side by side.

  3. 03

    Paste the key and save

    Paste the API key you copied from Tavily, or follow the instructions shown on screen, then save. The connection, your Tavily account linked to Make, now appears in the dropdown of every Tavily module.

First scenario

Your first scenario with Tavily

GoalWhen the scenario runs, Tavily searches the web for your topic, then Make fetches the raw content of the pages it found.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    From the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the + to add the first module. Search for Tavily and pick Perform a Search.

  2. 02

    Link your account and describe the search

    Click Create a connection, paste your API key, then fill in the module with the topic you want Tavily to look up on the web.

  3. 03

    Add Extract Raw Content

    Click the + on the right of the search module and add Extract Raw Content. Map, from the search module, the web addresses you want its text for.

  4. 04

    Test with Run once

    Click Run once. Make executes the scenario one time; read the bundles each module received and check the content matches your topic.

  5. 05

    Schedule and switch on

    Open the clock on the first module to set the schedule, every 15 minutes by default, then switch the scenario on. Each module run counts as an operation on your plan.

Modules

What the Tavily modules do

Tavily gives you 4 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

Tavily1

Crawl a Website

Action

In Make“Intelligently crawl a website to extract content.”

Hand Tavily one website and get back what it read as it moved through the pages, so a whole site becomes material your scenario can store or analyze.

When to use it
you want a competitor's documentation or a partner's catalog as a whole, not a single page picked by hand.
Watch out
test it with Run once and read what the crawl returns before you put the scenario on a schedule, since every run spends operations.
Tavily2

Extract Raw Content

Action

In Make“Retrieves raw content from a list of urls.”

Give this module a list of web addresses and it returns the raw content of each page, the text itself rather than the link, ready for a summary or an archive.

When to use it
the links already exist, in a sheet, a form answer or a previous search, and you only need what they contain.
Watch out
it reads the addresses you map; it does not go looking for new ones, which is the job of Perform a Search.
Tavily3

Make an API Call

Action

In Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.”

Reach any endpoint of the Tavily API from your scenario, using the same connection as the other modules, when the three ready-made modules do not cover what you need.

When to use it
Tavily offers something in its API that has no module in Make yet.
Watch out
you write the request yourself, so keep the Tavily API documentation open and test with Run once before you switch the scenario on.
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FAQ

Questions about the Tavily Make integration

01Is the Tavily Make integration free?
Yes on the Make side: Tavily is a standard app, available from the Free plan. That plan gives you 2 active scenarios, at least 15 minutes between two scheduled runs, 5 minutes of execution per run and 512 MB of data transfer. Paid plans drop the interval to 1 minute and lift the active scenario cap. Usage is counted in operations, one per module run. On the Tavily side, you need an active account with an API key; for its subscription, Tavily's own pricing page is the reference.
02What do you need to connect Tavily to Make?
An active Tavily account and its API key. Log in to Tavily, open your dashboard and copy the key displayed there. In Make, add a Tavily module, click Create a connection, give it a name if you like, paste the key and save. Every Tavily module in your scenarios then reuses that connection, so you only do this once per account. If Make refuses the key, copy it again from the dashboard and check that your Tavily account is still active.
03Does the Tavily Make integration have a trigger?
No. Tavily has no trigger module in Make, only actions, so something else has to start the scenario. Two options. Set a schedule on the first module: a new scenario runs every 15 minutes by default, and you can change that interval. Or open the scenario with another app's trigger, a new row in a sheet or a new record in a CRM for example, and place Perform a Search or Extract Raw Content right after it so Tavily works on that item.
04What if a Tavily module is missing in Make?
Use Make an API Call. It reaches any endpoint of the Tavily API from your scenario, with the same connection as the other modules, so a feature without a dedicated module is still within reach. Keep in mind that Make's documentation page for Tavily is flagged as AI-generated from Tavily's official docs and may contain mistakes; for anything important, check Tavily's own documentation or contact Tavily directly before you build around it.
05Should you use Make or n8n with Tavily?
It depends on the tool your team already uses. Many apps have an n8n node as well, so check both catalogs for the operations you need. On Make, you get 4 modules, a visual editor where each step is a module, the Run once test and a Free plan with 2 active scenarios. If your other automations already live in Make, keeping Tavily there means one place to watch. The n8n vs Make comparison linked above lays out the criteria side by side.
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