llama-index-tools-scavio

Scavio real-time search tools for LlamaIndex — Google, Google News, Reddit, YouTube, and Amazon as clean Documents, with one API key. A drop-in Tavily alternative and SerpAPI alternative for LlamaIndex RAG pipelines and agents.

Install

pip install llama-index-tools-scavio

Setup

Get a Scavio API key from the Scavio Dashboard (new accounts get 50 free signup credits, one-time, no credit card). Set SCAVIO_API_KEY or pass api_key= to the tool spec.

Usage

from llama_index.tools.scavio import ScavioToolSpec

tool_spec = ScavioToolSpec()  # reads SCAVIO_API_KEY

# Direct call — returns a list of llama_index Document objects
docs = tool_spec.search("best real-time search API for AI agents", max_results=5)
for doc in docs:
    print(doc.text, doc.metadata["url"])

Hand the tools to an agent:

from llama_index.core.agent.workflow import FunctionAgent
from llama_index.llms.openai import OpenAI

agent = FunctionAgent(
    tools=ScavioToolSpec().to_tool_list(),
    llm=OpenAI(model="gpt-5.5"),
    system_prompt="You are a research assistant. Use Scavio for fresh web data.",
)
response = await agent.run("What are people on Reddit saying about Tavily alternatives?")

Tools

ScavioToolSpec exposes a curated subset of the Scavio API — the endpoints that map cleanly onto RAG Documents (each function returns List[Document]):

This is deliberately a subset, not the whole API. For full coverage — all 99 endpoints across Google, YouTube, Amazon, Walmart, Reddit, TikTok, TikTok Shop, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn — point any LlamaIndex agent at the hosted MCP server at mcp.scavio.dev, which exposes 99 tools with no install required.

Scavio vs Tavily vs SerpAPI

Migrating from Tavily

- from llama_index.tools.tavily_research import TavilyToolSpec
- tool_spec = TavilyToolSpec(api_key="tvly-...")
+ from llama_index.tools.scavio import ScavioToolSpec
+ tool_spec = ScavioToolSpec(api_key="sk_live_...")

  docs = tool_spec.search("your query")

Credits

Most calls cost 1 credit. YouTube search costs 2 and YouTube transcripts cost 8. Elsewhere in the API, Instagram costs 2-10 and LinkedIn 1-30. See scavio.dev/docs.

About Scavio

Scavio is a real-time search API built for AI agents — a unified API over Google, YouTube, Amazon, Walmart, Reddit, TikTok, TikTok Shop, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn that returns clean JSON. It is a cost-effective Tavily alternative and SerpAPI alternative with broader platform coverage. Learn more in the LlamaIndex integration docs.

Links

• Scavio: https://scavio.dev
• Docs: https://scavio.dev/docs/llamaindex
• Dashboard: https://dashboard.scavio.dev