FlipboardRSS
GoodBotVerifiedBOTFlipboard will use visitor's RSS feed to discover articles and generate article summaries Operated by Flipboard.
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
Identification
FlipboardRSSWhy 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
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: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows FlipboardRSS. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Flipboard's documentation.
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