diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 820c03a..6dba6f3 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ You can also use this library without Requests:
     >>> from requests_html import HTML
     >>> doc = """<a href='https://httpbin.org'>"""
 
-    >>> html = HTML(html=doc, url='fakeurl', default_encoding='utf-8')
+    >>> html = HTML(html=doc)
     >>> html.links
     {'https://httpbin.org'}
 
diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst
index feac635..fd7e55c 100644
--- a/docs/source/index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/index.rst
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ You can also use this library without Requests:
     >>> from requests_html import HTML
     >>> doc = """<a href='https://httpbin.org'>"""
 
-    >>> html = HTML(html=doc, url='fakeurl', default_encoding='utf-8')
+    >>> html = HTML(html=doc)
     >>> html.links
     {'https://httpbin.org'}
 
diff --git a/requests_html.py b/requests_html.py
index 12a33cd..44d5631 100644
--- a/requests_html.py
+++ b/requests_html.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from w3lib.encoding import html_to_unicode
 
 
 DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'utf-8'
+DEFAULT_URL = 'https://example.org/'
 
 useragent = UserAgent()
 
@@ -204,7 +205,7 @@ class Element(BaseParser):
 class HTML(BaseParser):
     """An HTML document, ready for parsing."""
 
-    def __init__(self, *, url, html, default_encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING) -> None:
+    def __init__(self, *, url=DEFAULT_URL, html, default_encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING) -> None:
         super(HTML, self).__init__(
             element=PyQuery(html)('html'),
             html=html,