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# Website Reader

WebsiteReader is a reader class that allows you to read data from websites.

## Parameters

<Snippet file="website-reader-reference.mdx" />

## Methods

### `read()`

Crawls a website starting from the given URL and returns a list of documents.

| Parameter | Type            | Default  | Description                               |
| --------- | --------------- | -------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| `url`     | `str`           | Required | URL of the website to crawl and read      |
| `name`    | `Optional[str]` | `None`   | Name override for the resulting documents |

### `async_read()`

Async variant of `read()`. Accepts the same parameters.