Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Feed fetchers

Flipboard Proxy

Listed only

Flipboard's proxy service, which fetches and prepares elements of a page (e.g. a social feed a user asked Flipboard to scan) for presentation in the Flipboard app. Flipboard's own docs say these requests currently originate from an Amazon EC2 cluster but publish no fixed IP list.

Operated by Flipboard, Inc. · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexFlipboardProxy/[\d.]+
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; FlipboardProxy/1.2; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy)
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 (FlipboardProxy/1.2; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • Respects robots.txt

    Does not honor robots.txt

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.