What FlipboardProxy does
FlipboardProxy is the proxy service Flipboard uses to fetch, validate, and prepare certain elements of websites for presentation through the Flipboard application. Site administrators may see the "Flipboard" or "FlipboardProxy" user agents in their logs as a cluster of relatively tightly spaced requests. Flipboard has stated that these requests generally come in response to a user asking the service to scan a social media feed and construct a processed feed of items, and that they originate from Amazon EC2.
How to control FlipboardProxy
Target FlipboardProxy in your robots.txt with the FlipboardProxy token. Rules apply per bot, so you can allow this one while blocking others, or the reverse.
Allow FlipboardProxy
User-agent: FlipboardProxy
Allow: /Block FlipboardProxy
User-agent: FlipboardProxy
Disallow: /How to identify FlipboardProxy
Temso identifies FlipboardProxytraffic by matching the request's User-Agent header against this pattern. User-agent strings can be spoofed, so treat a match as an indication, not proof.
FlipboardProxyFlipboardProxy FAQ
What is FlipboardProxy?
FlipboardProxy is the service Flipboard uses to fetch, validate, and prepare website content for presentation in the Flipboard app. It typically appears in logs as tightly spaced clusters of requests triggered by user activity, originating from Amazon EC2.
How do I block FlipboardProxy?
Add a robots.txt group with "User-agent: FlipboardProxy" and "Disallow: /". If requests continue, you can block the user agent at the server level.
About Operational Bots
Monitoring, security scanning, link previews, webhooks, and feed fetchers: the utility traffic that keeps integrations and shared links working.
Most of this traffic is service-critical or user-triggered. Webhooks and previews don't follow robots.txt, and blocking them tends to break things you rely on.
