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Introduction

No need to write a single line of code to connect Tavily to your business processes. With Tavily’s robust search capabilities, you can pull in the latest online information into any application or workflow.

Simply set up Tavily in Zapier to automate research, track real-time news, or feed relevant data into your tools of choice.

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How to set up Tavily with Zapier

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Use cases for Tavily in Zapier

With Tavily, you can harness the power of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to create complex workflows. Here are some examples, for inspiration:

  • Automated Email Generation: Use Tavily to create tailored emails based on real-time data.

  • Meeting Preparation: Gather real-time information about meeting participants. For instance, before a client meeting, retrieve their latest news or social media updates and receive a concise summary through your preferred method, ensuring you’re well-informed.

  • Automated Reporting: Utilize Tavily’s online search data to generate reports. Push this information into tools like Google Sheets, Notion, or Slack to create a weekly digest of industry trends or competitor analysis, keeping your team updated effortlessly.

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Detailed example - company research

We can build an automated workflow that executes brief company research for newly signed-up companies and delivers the report via Slack.

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Best practices

To use Tavily most efficiently in your Zapier workflows, keep the following guidelines in mind when designing your automations:

  • Create concise queries for Tavily, and if needed, create multiple Tavily steps.
  • If up-to-date news information is required, configure “news” as your topic.
  • Add the current date to your queries for relevant, updated information.
  • Consider using specific domains to narrow down search results.
  • Use an LLM to generate queries for Tavily to enable a more agentic workflow.
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