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Add Tako to your agent

The fastest way to build with Tako. Paste one prompt into your coding agent to wire Tako into an existing project, or create a new Tako agent from the console.

Create a Tako-powered agent

Follow the agent quickstart in the console. It generates a prompt for your coding agent in seconds to build with the Tako APIs.

Installation

Tako ships official SDKs for Python and TypeScript / JavaScript. Every endpoint is also a single POST, so any other language works over the REST API directly.
For one-click MCP setup in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and VS Code, see the MCP server page.

Get your API key

1

Sign up for free credits

New to Tako? Sign up and get free credits to start building.
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Create an API key

Create an API key from your Tako console.
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Store it as an environment variable

Store it as an environment variable — for example TAKO_API_KEY — rather than hardcoding it.

Pick the right tool

Each API is a single call over the same curated, real-time data — here’s what each one is for, and why it beats a generic search API. Expand a tool to see when to reach for it.
  • Rank a cohort. “Which of the 20 largest US semiconductor companies grew revenue fastest since 2015?” — the Agent resolves the set, pulls each company’s data, and ranks them in one long-running run you dispatch and poll.
  • Background research job. Kick off an overnight run that compiles a competitor’s funding history, headcount, and recent filings into one cited brief, and read it when it finishes.
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  • Ground a chat assistant in real data. “What was NVIDIA’s latest quarterly revenue?” comes back as a finished written answer with the licensed data and web sources that back it attached — drop it straight into the conversation, no retrieval to wire up.
  • Keep a page current without an editor. A weekly market recap renders “How did the S&P 500 do this week?” as written copy plus the cards behind it, then re-runs each morning so the words and the data stay in sync.
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  • Fan out for an agent. One call per entity — “NVDA revenue last 4 quarters”, “AMD revenue last 4 quarters” — returns structured series in parallel with no LLM in the loop, so your agent computes on real values instead of waiting on generated text.
  • Embed a live chart. “Gold price, last 5 years” comes back as an interactive knowledge card — licensed data plus matching web results in the same call — ready to drop into a dashboard.
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  • Export a Tako card’s time series. Pass a Tako card URL — say the “US CPI, year over year” card from a Search or Answer result — and Contents returns that card’s full time series as CSV: load it into a dataframe or spreadsheet, or have an agent compute a 3-year growth rate on the real numbers.
  • Read the full page behind a web result. Pass the URL of a web result and get clean extracted text instead of raw HTML — the whole source your answer cited, ready for an agent to read.
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Already have your own data? Thin-Viz turns it into interactive, embeddable Tako cards. Want to see what data is available? The Data Graph lets you explore the entities and metrics Tako covers, then pin exactly what you find into Search. It consumes no credits, so it’s the cheapest way to find out what Tako has before you query it.

Make your first request

Pick the use case closest to what you’re building. Each is a single call over the same real-time data — the code and the live result below both change to match.
Search returns fast, structured knowledge cards for a query — no LLM in the loop. Ideal for pulling live prices you render or compute on yourself.

Code

Result

A knowledge card — a full data series with its sources, ready to render or compute on.

Next steps

Developer Playground

No setup required. Try a simple query like “Nvidia earnings” or a long-form prompt to see what Tako returns.

What is Tako?

Learn more about Tako’s key concepts and functionality.