FlipboardProxy
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FlipboardProxy
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FlipboardProxy/1.1; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FlipboardProxy/1.1; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy) in your website logs, it indicates that FlipboardProxy has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FlipboardProxy/1.2; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FlipboardProxy/1.2; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy) in your website logs, it indicates that FlipboardProxy has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (FlipboardProxy/1.1; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (FlipboardProxy/1.1; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy) in your website logs, it indicates that FlipboardProxy has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (FlipboardProxy/1.1; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (FlipboardProxy/1.1; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy) in your website logs, it indicates that FlipboardProxy has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find 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) in your logs?
If you've seen 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) in your website logs, it indicates that FlipboardProxy has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Expected Behavior
This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.
Should I Block FlipboardProxy?
This bot is marked as non-compliant, which may mean it doesn't respect robots.txt or engages in aggressive crawling behavior. You may want to consider blocking it if it's causing issues for your site.
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Get Automated Bot ManagementHow Do I Block FlipboardProxy?
You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.
User Agent Tokens
FlipboardProxyShould match instances of this botrobots.txt
# robots.txt # This should block FlipboardProxy User-agent: FlipboardProxy Disallow: /
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