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.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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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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