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title: "Client.read_bytes"
description: "Read an entire asset into memory."
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# Client.read_bytes

import ParamField from "@docs/components/ParamField.astro";

```python
async def Client.read_bytes(
    asset: Asset,
    *,
    max_bytes: int | None = None,
) -> bytes
```

Read an entire asset into memory.

## Parameters

**asset**

type: Asset

The asset to resolve and read.
**max_bytes**

type: int | None

An optional maximum accepted object size in bytes.

## Returns

The complete object contents as `bytes`.

Source: https://tilebox.com/docs/api-reference/python/tilebox.storage.aio/Client.read_bytes/index.mdx