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Rakuten Image extraction bot

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Rakuten uses this bot to crawl product images so that we can display cashbach deals for our merchants. Operated by Rakuten.

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Assessment

Aggregator

What is Rakuten Image extraction bot?

Rakuten Image extraction bot is a web crawler operated by Rakuten. Rakuten uses this bot to crawl product images so that we can display cashbach deals for our merchants.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Rakuten Image extraction bot

Operator

Rakuten

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

One or two isolated anecdotes from individual site owners

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Rakuten Image extraction bot crawls websites to collect and process web content. It is operated by Rakuten as part of their web crawling infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Rakuten Image extraction bot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for rakutenusabot-image in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Rakuten Image extraction bot from crawling your entire site
User-agent:  rakutenusabot-image
Disallow: /

# Allow Rakuten Image extraction bot full access
User-agent:  rakutenusabot-image
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows rakutenusabot-image. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Rakuten's documentation.