FlipboardBrowserProxy
Flipboard browser proxy
About this crawler
FlipboardBrowserProxy is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern FlipboardBrowserProxy in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block FlipboardBrowserProxy traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- FlipboardBrowserProxy
- Pattern
FlipboardBrowserProxy- Tags
- social-preview
- Reference
- http://flipboard.com/browserproxy
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (FlipboardBrowserProxy/0.0.5; +http://flipboard.com/browserproxy)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow FlipboardBrowserProxy:
User-agent: FlipboardBrowserProxy
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FlipboardBrowserProxy [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "FlipboardBrowserProxy") {
return 403;
}
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