# Tavily Search Node

> Queries the web for current, highly relevant search results with customizable depth, country boosting, and image retrieval.

**URL:** https://caywork.com/learn/docs/node/tavily-search-node

## Content

The **Tavily Search Node** is a powerful web-search engine connector that allows your AI agent to query the web in real-time, fetching highly relevant snippets, summaries, and source URLs. It is optimized to extract clean information without bloating the context window with raw HTML.

## Parameters

### Required Parameters
* **query** (string): The search query to look up on the web.

### Optional Parameters
* **country** (string): Boost search results from a specific country (e.g., 'United States', 'Germany', 'Japan'). *Must be full country name; ISO codes are not supported.*
* **search_depth** (string): Depth of search. Available options:
  * `basic`: Standard search results.
  * `advanced`: More thorough, deep search.
  * `fast`: Optimized low latency with high relevance.
  * `ultra-fast`: Latency-prioritized low latency search.
* **max_results** (integer): The maximum number of search results to return (Default: `5`).
* **topic** (string): Category of search. Choose `general` or `news`.
* **time_range** (string): Returns results from a specific time window back from the current date.
* **start_date** / **end_date** (string): Filter results after/before a specific date in `YYYY-MM-DD` format.
* **exact_match** (string): Only return results containing this exact phrase.
* **include_domains** / **exclude_domains** (array): Filter results to include or exclude specific site domains.
* **include_favicon** (boolean): Include favicon URLs for each source.
* **include_images** (boolean): Include query-related images in the response.
* **include_image_descriptions** (boolean): Include text descriptions for returned images.
* **include_raw_content** (boolean): Include cleaned and parsed full HTML content for each result.

## Practical Use Cases

1. **Real-Time Fact Checking**: Automatically retrieve current information or news to cross-verify facts during conversational flows.
2. **Competitive Intelligence**: Monitor brand mentions or look up latest competitor announcements across specific included domains.
3. **News Summarization**: Perform hourly checks on specific topics with `topic: "news"` and `time_range` options to feed a newsletter generator.