# Flipboard

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/flipboard/  
**Website:** https://flipboard.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Flipboard is a content curation and social magazine platform that aggregates articles, videos, and social media posts into personalized, magazine-style feeds. Founded in 2010, Flipboard allows users to curate content into magazines around topics of interest and follow curators and publishers. Flipboard has embraced open web standards, implementing ActivityPub to federate with the Fediverse and supporting RSS for publisher content distribution.

## Kin Score — 20.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 63.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Flipboard RSS Feeds** — Flipboard supports RSS feeds as the primary integration mechanism for publishers and content creators. Publishers can submit RSS feeds to be featured as Flipboard Magazines, ena...
- **Flipboard ActivityPub** — Flipboard has implemented the ActivityPub protocol, making its content available to the broader Fediverse. Starting in 2023, Flipboard began federating its magazines and curator...

## Security (1)

- **Flipboard Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Flipboard Plans Pricing**

## Tags

ActivityPub, Content Curation, Digital Publishing, Fediverse, News, RSS, Social-Media

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/flipboard/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.