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action.website-reader, Fetch a webpage and convert content to markdown Use Website Reader when a workflow needs readable page content rather than a raw HTTP response. It follows redirects and returns the final URL alongside the page title, metadata, and Markdown.

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Durable retries

Website Reader can durably retry transient timeouts, rate limits, and selected retryable server failures. In Studio, set the workflow default under Workflow settings → Retries, then choose Inherit workflow default, Retry automatically, or Never retry in this step’s Retry control.
Retries use bounded exponential backoff, honor Retry-After, and stop after a five-minute elapsed budget. Studio allows two or three total attempts, including the first attempt. The YAML schema accepts up to 10, but the current worker ceiling is three. See Workflows → Retries for workflow defaults and step overrides.

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Configuration

Configuration goes inside the step’s with: block.
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string
required
Website URL to fetch (supports template expressions)
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number
default:"30000"
Timeout in milliseconds
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"auto" | "utf-8" | "latin1" | "windows-1250" | "windows-1252" | "iso-8859-2"
default:"auto"
Response encoding. Auto detects from Content-Type header and HTML meta tags.

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Output

Page content converted to markdown
Page title
Page excerpt/description
Author information
Site name
Content length in characters
Final URL after redirects