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title: What an AI agent reads on The Southern · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/thesouthern.co.uk/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on The Southern

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. This is that view of [thesouthern.co.uk](https://www.thesouthern.co.uk/), from the copy the scanner kept.

647

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

0

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Home - The Southern. First 647 of 647 characters:

```
Home - The Southern The Southern As they say everything improves with age. On Edinburgh’s south side, just behind the Meadows on South Clerk Street, is The Southern. mon – thur 4pm – 12am fri – sat 12pm – 1am sat 12pm – 12am Food MenuDrink Click here to book Or give us a call on 0131 662 8926 0131 662 8926 | thesouthern@fullerthomson.com 22-26 South Clerk Street, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9PR MAP Skilled bar and waiting staff, chefs and kitchen assistants, always required. APPLY NOW The Southern is part of Fuller Thomson. FIND OUT MORE FacebookTwitterInstagram About Menus Bookings Contact Follow Cookie Policy Privacy Policy Application Form
```

 Facts

## What it can state about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | +441316628926 (a tel: link, not structured) |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | a PDF www.thesouthern.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2026/04/Sou |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 1 (BreadcrumbList, EntryPoint, ListItem, PropertyValueSpecification, ReadAction, SearchAction) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

| Link | Role | Where it goes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheSouthern/19685](https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheSouthern/19685) | booking | resdiary, acting for the business |

Everything here comes from one fetch of the homepage as a crawler; the [report](https://directindex.org/r/thesouthern.co.uk) turns it into a score and fixes, with a kit to paste.

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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","founder":{"@type":"Person","name":"Antonio 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"}}]}
```