> ## Documentation Index
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# Website Reader

> Parameters and methods of WebsiteReader, which crawls websites and reads pages into documents.

WebsiteReader reads data from websites.

## Parameters

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## 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.


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