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FlipboardProxy

Name: FlipboardProxy
Author: Flipboard

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

We work with publishers/partners to obtain their content so it is formatted for the Flipboard app. Operated by Flipboard.

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Assessment

Page Preview

What is FlipboardProxy?

FlipboardProxy is a web crawler operated by Flipboard. We work with publishers/partners to obtain their content so it is formatted for the Flipboard app.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

FlipboardProxy

Operator

Flipboard

Why it crawls your site

FlipboardProxy crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Flipboard as part of their link preview infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow FlipboardProxy

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for FlipboardProxy in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block FlipboardProxy from crawling your entire site
User-agent: FlipboardProxy
Disallow: /

# Allow FlipboardProxy full access
User-agent: FlipboardProxy
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows FlipboardProxy. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Flipboard's documentation.