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Workato connects business applications through automated workflows called recipes. Add Tavily to bring web research into workflows such as account enrichment, competitor monitoring, and content collection.

Prerequisites

  • A Workato workspace where you can install and release connectors and create connections.
  • A Tavily API key with available credits.

Connect Tavily

The steps and screenshots below follow Workato’s Tavily connector documentation.
1

Install the connector

Search for Tavily in the recipe editor or the community library. Open the connector and click Install.
2

Release it to your workspace

Select Release connector, or Review code if you want to inspect it first. Enter a release summary and click Release to make the connector available in recipes.
Workato dialog with Release connector and Review code buttons

Release the installed connector. Screenshot from Workato documentation.

3

Create a Tavily connection

In Workato, choose Create → Connection, search for Tavily, and select it.Enter a Connection name, select a project under Location, and paste your key from API Keys in the Tavily dashboard into API key. Click Connect.
Workato Tavily connection form with connection name, project location, and API key fields

Tavily API key connection. Screenshot from Workato documentation.

Connecting runs a test search that consumes 1 Tavily credit.

Available actions

Example: collect product news in Google Sheets

Create a research log for your sales or marketing team. Connect Google Sheets to Workato and create a sheet with Title, URL, and Snippet column headers.
  1. Choose Create → Recipe → Run on a schedule. Configure Scheduler by Workato’s New recurring event to run weekly, selecting the day, time, and timezone.
  2. Add Tavily → Search web and select your Tavily connection. Set Query to Stripe product announcements, Topic to News, Search depth to Advanced, and Max results to 3. Replace Stripe with a company you follow.
  3. Add Google Sheets → Add rows in bulk and select your spreadsheet and sheet. Map Tavily’s Results list to Rows source list, then map each result’s title, URL, and content snippet to the corresponding sheet columns.
  4. Test the recipe, inspect the Tavily output and added rows, then start the recipe when ready.
To read a source in more detail, add Extract page content and pass it a URL returned by Search web.

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