How do Tavily Search and Extract differ?
Search returns candidate URLs and excerpts for a question. Extract starts from a URL you already know and can report failures for pages it cannot retrieve.
A longer excerpt helps you read more of a page. It cannot tell you whether the page is still the current notice or whether a missing exception appears elsewhere.
How quickly can Tavily credits run out?
Tavily lists 1,000 monthly credits on Researcher. Basic Search uses one credit and Advanced Search uses two. The free allowance stops at its limit unless pay-as-you-go is enabled.
Estimate the searches your app would run per reader question. Check extraction separately because it has its own credit rules.
Can you keep the response, and what happens to the query?
Tavily’s help page says its terms generally allow storage of returned results. Publisher rights still apply, and Tavily asks customers to contact it before sharing cached results across multiple customers.
That is about your copy of the results. The privacy policy separately describes limited sharing of query data with outside search index providers. Keep the question about public information and leave out private records.
How do you handle a page Tavily could not retrieve?
Sketch a fictional event result, a past event and a failed retrieval. Use no service or actual page.
- Use dates to rule out stale pagesA post from last month confirms that month’s rules only.
- Check the unresolved ruleIf the current listing does not answer the walk-in question and the detailed notice fails to load, return “booking rule unconfirmed” with the listing link.