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The Website Reader crawls and processes entire websites, following links to create comprehensive knowledge bases from web content.

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Code

examples/concepts/knowledge/readers/web_reader.py
from agno.knowledge.reader.website_reader import WebsiteReader

reader = WebsiteReader(max_depth=3, max_links=10)

try:
    print("Starting read...")
    documents = reader.read("https://docs.agno.com/introduction")
    if documents:
        for doc in documents:
            print(doc.name)
            print(doc.content)
            print(f"Content length: {len(doc.content)}")
            print("-" * 80)
    else:
        print("No documents were returned")

except Exception as e:
    print(f"Error type: {type(e)}")
    print(f"Error occurred: {str(e)}")

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Usage

1

Create a virtual environment

Open the Terminal and create a python virtual environment.
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
2

Install libraries

pip install -U requests beautifulsoup4 agno openai
3

Set environment variables

export OPENAI_API_KEY=xxx
4

Run Agent

python examples/concepts/knowledge/readers/web_reader.py

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Params

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
urlstrRequiredURL of the website to crawl and read
max_depthint3Maximum depth level for crawling links
max_linksint10Maximum number of links to crawl