# CSV Feeder
```{admonition} Module type

<span style='color: #FFA500'>[feeder](/core_modules.md#feeder-modules)</a></span>
```

Reads URLs from CSV files and feeds them into the archiving process.

### Features
- Supports reading URLs from multiple input files, specified as a comma-separated list.
- Allows specifying the column number or name to extract URLs from.
- Skips header rows if the first value is not a valid URL.

### Setup
- Input files should be formatted with one URL per line, with or without a header row.
- If you have a header row, you can specify the column number or name to read URLs from using the 'column' config option.


## Configuration Options

### YAML
```{code} yaml
csv_feeder:
  files:
  column:

```

### Command Line:
| Option | Description | Default | Type|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `csv_feeder.files` | **Required**. Path to the input file(s) to read the URLs from, comma separated.                         Input files should be formatted with one URL per line | None | valid_file |
| `csv_feeder.column` | Optional. Column number or name to read the URLs from, 0-indexed | None | string |

[API Reference](../../../autoapi/csv_feeder/index)