FlipboardProxy
What is FlipboardProxy?
About
FlipboardProxy crawls and fetches content from publisher websites to format articles for display in the Flipboard social magazine app. You can see how often FlipboardProxy visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.
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Last Updated | 13 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block FlipboardProxy?
Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.
How Do I Block FlipboardProxy?
You can block FlipboardProxy or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.
User Agent String | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 (FlipboardProxy/1.2; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy) |
# robots.txt
# This should block FlipboardProxy
User-agent: FlipboardProxy
Disallow: /