{"slug": "show-hn-live-counts-of-ai-assistants-reading-a-diaspora-business-directory", "title": "Show HN: Live counts of AI assistants reading a diaspora business directory", "summary": "A diaspora business directory called Nibiashara is publishing live counts of AI assistant traffic drawn from its own access logs, tracking named AI crawlers and assistants from OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Meta, Apple, DuckDuckGo, You.com, ByteDance and Common Crawl families over a rolling 7-day window. A \"read\" is defined as one access-log row per AI visitor, per page or API answer, per day, with generic bots, SEO tools, search-engine crawlers, the site's own monitors and flagged requests excluded; counts refresh every two minutes and the page reloads itself every two minutes. The directory exposes listings through an open JSON API, llms.txt, an MCP server and an A2A agent card, and offers a script tag that puts a live AI-read counter for any listing on a third-party site.", "body_md": "# Diaspora Agent Index\n\nAI assistants are reading this directory every day — checking listings, answering questions, sending customers to diaspora businesses. These are the live numbers, straight from our access logs. No projections, no padding: named AI crawlers and assistants only.\n\nLoading live counts…\n\n## Who's reading\n\nNamed AI crawlers and assistants, last 7 days\n\nLoading…\n\n## Most-read listings\n\nAI reads per listing, last 7 days\n\n1. Loading…\n\n## Most-read metros\n\nAI reads by metro, last 7 days\n\n1. Loading…\n\n## Most-read categories\n\nAI reads by category, last 7 days\n\n1. Loading…\n\n## Is AI reading your business?\n\nEvery listing here is machine-readable by design: open JSON API, llms.txt, MCP server, A2A agent card. Claiming is free while your listing is unclaimed — once it's verified, AI assistants can see that too.\n\n[Find your business and claim it](https://nibiashara.com/directory)\n\nRun an agent? The directory is built for you: [open API](https://nibiashara.com/api/v1/) · [MCP server](https://nibiashara.com/mcp) · [A2A agent card](https://nibiashara.com/.well-known/agent.json) · [llms.txt](https://nibiashara.com/llms.txt) · machine-readable reads feed at [/api/v1/reads](https://nibiashara.com/api/v1/reads).\n\nPut a live AI-read counter on your own site for any listing:\n\n`<script src=\"https://nibiashara.com/ai-reads.js\" defer data-b=\"your-listing-slug\"></script>`\nWhat a \"read\" is: one row in our access log per AI visitor, per page or API answer, per day, from a named AI crawler or assistant (OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Meta, Apple, DuckDuckGo, You.com, ByteDance and Common Crawl families). Generic bots, SEO tools, search-engine crawlers and our own monitors are excluded, as are flagged requests. Counts only — we never publish user agents, queries or anything per-visitor. Refreshed every two minutes; this page reloads itself every two minutes.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-live-counts-of-ai-assistants-reading-a-diaspora-business-directory", "canonical_source": "https://nibiashara.com/agent-index", "published_at": "2026-11-09 23:10:11+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-09 23:23:08.972398+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-crawlers", "agent-protocols", "ai-search", "structured-data"], "entities": ["Nibiashara", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Perplexity", "Meta", "Apple", "DuckDuckGo", "ByteDance"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-live-counts-of-ai-assistants-reading-a-diaspora-business-directory", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-live-counts-of-ai-assistants-reading-a-diaspora-business-directory.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-live-counts-of-ai-assistants-reading-a-diaspora-business-directory.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-live-counts-of-ai-assistants-reading-a-diaspora-business-directory.jsonld"}}