--- title: What an AI agent reads on The Associated Press · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/r/ap.org/agent-view?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Numbers](https://directindex.org/stats)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) [Report](https://directindex.org/r/ap.org) · scanned 2026-10-22 # What an AI agent reads on The Associated Press An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [ap.org](http://www.ap.org/), taken from the copy the scanner kept. 22,035 characters of text without JavaScript Organization structured data for the business 0 of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge Text ## The words an agent gets Title: The Associated Press | Video, Photo, Text, Audio & Data News Agency · language en. First 1,800 of 22,035 characters: ``` The Associated Press | Video, Photo, Text, Audio & Data News Agency Skip to content English English Spanish FOLLOW AP AP Customer Zone Content Formats Video Live video Photos Graphics Text Services Data Solutions Audio Topics Breaking news Sports Business and finance Entertainment Lifestyle Climate and environment Religion and faith Politics Health Science FIFA World Cup 2026 Archive Partners and contributors Solutions Platforms AP Newsroom Media API AP Stylebook AP StoryShare APNews.com Services Global Media Solutions AP Productions Branded content and advertising Learning Workflow Solutions AI at AP Elections Intelligence Elections Who we serve Media Workflow Solutions Local Investigative Reporting Program Metadata services AP Planner AP Daybooks AP Stylebook Government Education Finance AI, Tech and Data Insights AP Forward Content Insights Solutions Insights News Highlights About Awards and recognition Media center The Definitive Source News values Supporting AP Corporate archives Careers AP Customer Zone Contact us Advancing the power of facts News and services that expand the reach of factual reporting Discover the latest world’s news in all formats and topics Access our news highlights Discover our solutions Helping news, media, brands and institutions leverage our world-class content and cutting-edge services to drive value to their audiences and business. Request a Demo 5,000 pieces of individual journalism every day 80% visual content 1.34M photos per year 2M video clips in archive News highlights Latest stories Revelers react to fireworks shooting off a traditional “Torito” during town festivities in Tepexpan, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Spotlights Week in Pictures AUG. 6, 2026 Read more People attend a rally for incumbent Democratic ``` Facts ## What it can say about the business | A business type in JSON-LD | Organization | | Name | The Associated Press | | Telephone | no | | Address | no | | Opening hours | no | | Menu or price list | nothing | | Cuisine in structured data | no | | JSON-LD blocks | 1 (BreadcrumbList, EntryPoint, ImageObject, ListItem, Organization, PropertyValueSpecification) | Actions ## The links it would act on No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on. Everything here comes from fetching the homepage once as a crawler. 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Scores are published under the same licence. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","email":"hello@directindex.org","founder":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://directindex.org/#antonio","name":"Antonio Curado","sameAs":["https://x.com/ab_curado"]},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]} ```