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# YouTube Reader

YouTubeReader is a reader class that allows you to read transcript from YouTube videos.

## Parameters

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## Methods

### `read()`

Reads the transcript of a YouTube video and returns a list of documents.

| Parameter | Type            | Default  | Description                                             |
| --------- | --------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| `url`     | `str`           | Required | URL of the YouTube video to extract the transcript from |
| `name`    | `Optional[str]` | `None`   | Name override for the resulting documents               |

### `async_read()`

Async variant of `read()`. Accepts `url` only.