Rakuten Image extraction bot

monitoring Rakuten Image extraction bot

E-commerce product image extraction and indexing crawler bot

About this crawler

Rakuten Image extraction bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Rakuten Image extraction bot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Rakuten Image extraction bot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

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Technical details

Name
Rakuten Image extraction bot
Pattern
Rakuten Image extraction bot
Tags
monitoring
Reference
https://www.rakuten.com/geogating/sorry?old=/
Added
2026/04/26
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Rakuten Image extraction bot

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Rakuten Image extraction bot:

User-agent: Rakuten Image extraction bot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Rakuten Image extraction bot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Rakuten Image extraction bot") { return 403; }
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