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title: What an AI agent reads on 8th Hill · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/thehill.com/agent-view?format=md
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# What an AI agent reads on 8th Hill

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 [thehill.com](https://www.thehill.com/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

25,994

characters of text without JavaScript

Organization

structured data for the business

3

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill Visit our Facebook page Visit our X profile Visit our LinkedIn profile Visit our Haystack NewsBack ButtonFilter Button · language en-US. First 1,800 of 25,994 characters:

```
The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill Skip to content Toggle Menu Read The Paper UPGRADE Sign In Account Profile Manage Newsletters Log Out Newsletters Morning Report 12:30 Report Evening Report Business Defense Healthcare Energy & Environment Technology Whole Hog Politics The Gavel The Movement On The Ballot Toggle Menu 2026 ELECTIONS NEWS Senate House Administration Courts Media Campaign News 2026 Midterm Elections Education In The Know DC News State Watch Print Edition People in the News POLICY Defense Healthcare Energy & Environment Sports & Gaming Technology Transportation International Cybersecurity National Security Space BUSINESS Budget Taxes Personal Finance Lobbying HEALTH OPINION Columnists Congress Blog All Contributors Opinions – Campaign Opinions – Civil Rights Opinions – Criminal Justice Opinions – Cybersecurity Opinions – Education Opinions – Energy and Environment Opinions – Finance Opinions – Healthcare Opinions – Immigration Opinions – International Opinions – Judiciary Opinions – National Security Opinions – Technology Opinions – White House Submit Opinion Content EVENTS Upcoming Events About VIDEOS HILL INSIDER UPGRADE Sign In Account Profile Manage Newsletters Log Out Newsletters 2026 ELECTIONS NEWS POLICY BUSINESS HEALTH OPINION EVENTS VIDEOS HILL INSIDER Live: Trump gas prices Trending: Trump-Omar DOJ election certification Musk’s 'space monopoly' Sponsored: Content from IJM Campaign by Julia Mueller / 6 hours ago Justice Department sues to block Alaska results if Sullivan loses Video Player is loading.Play VideoDeSantis gifts Trump gold coin with engraved image of him ‘flipping the bird’PauseSkip BackwardSkip ForwardUnmuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 2:40Loaded: 2.49%0:00Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currentl
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | Organization |
| Name | Nexstar Media Group |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 1 (ContactPoint, ImageObject, NewsMediaOrganization, Organization, SearchAction, WebSite) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on.

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```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"}}]}
```