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FlipboardRSS

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Flipboard will use visitor's RSS feed to discover articles and generate article summaries Operated by Flipboard.

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Assessment
Feed Fetcher
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is FlipboardRSS?

FlipboardRSS is a web crawler operated by Flipboard. Flipboard will use visitor's RSS feed to discover articles and generate article summaries

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

Identification

Bot name
FlipboardRSS
Operator
Flipboard
Category
Feed Fetcher
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
flipboardrss
User-agent patterns
FlipboardRSS
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FlipboardRSS/1.2; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy)
Main use cases
RSS/Atom feed fetchingContent aggregationNotification delivery

Why it crawls your site

FlipboardRSS crawls websites to fetch RSS and Atom feeds for content aggregation. It is operated by Flipboard as part of their feed aggregation infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow FlipboardRSS

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for FlipboardRSS 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 FlipboardRSS from crawling your entire site
User-agent: FlipboardRSS
Disallow: /

# Allow FlipboardRSS full access
User-agent: FlipboardRSS
Allow: /
Allow & verify

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

Traffic & trends

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Related bots

Other crawlers operated by Flipboard.

Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated July 26, 2026