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# Firecrawl Reader

> Parameters and methods of FirecrawlReader, which scrapes or crawls websites into documents using Firecrawl.

FirecrawlReader reads data from websites using Firecrawl.

## Parameters

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

## Methods

### `read()`

Scrapes or crawls the given URL, depending on `mode`, and returns a list of documents.

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

### `async_read()`

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