FlipboardRSS

What is FlipboardRSS?

About

FlipboardRSS is a web crawler used by Flipboard to discover articles from RSS feeds and generate article summaries for content curation on the Flipboard platform. It fetches and processes RSS content to help build personalized magazines. You can see how often FlipboardRSS 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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Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Robots.txt

Should I Block FlipboardRSS?

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 FlipboardRSS?

You can block FlipboardRSS 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.

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: FlipboardRSS # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/flipboardrss
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.