Operator

Rakuten

Rakuten runs 6 bots across 4 agent types. Each one is a separate user-agent so you can allow or block them independently.

Bot

Type

Purpose

Description

Rakuten CashbackShopping Bot · Catalog index

Shopping Bot

Catalog index

Rakuten Cashback is operated by Rakuten. Catalog crawler that indexes product feeds for AI-powered shopping experiences and answer engines. Allowing it is how products become discoverable inside agentic commerce.

Rakuten Image extraction botGeneric Crawler · General

Generic Crawler

General

Rakuten Image extraction bot is operated by Rakuten. Generic programmatic data extraction with intent that varies case-by-case. Worth checking the operator before blocking, some are legitimate research, some are abusive.

Rakuten-AgentShopping Bot · Catalog index

Shopping Bot

Catalog index

Rakuten-Agent is operated by Rakuten. Catalog crawler that indexes product feeds for AI-powered shopping experiences and answer engines. Allowing it is how products become discoverable inside agentic commerce.

Rakuten-AI-BotTraining Crawler · Training

Training Crawler

Training

Rakuten-AI-Bot is operated by Rakuten. Crawls broadly across the public web to gather content for training new model versions. Site owners can opt out via robots.txt, though enforcement varies by operator.

RakutenBotShopping Bot · Catalog index

Shopping Bot

Catalog index

RakutenBot is operated by Rakuten. Catalog crawler that indexes product feeds for AI-powered shopping experiences and answer engines. Allowing it is how products become discoverable inside agentic commerce.

rakutenusabot-imageLink Unfurler · Link preview

Link Unfurler

Link preview

rakutenusabot-image is operated by Rakuten. Single-page fetch triggered by a user action, link previews, social unfurlers, RSS readers. Volume tracks shares and clicks rather than crawl schedules.

Live data · via Cloudflare Radar

See how Rakuten's bots show up in real internet traffic

Cloudflare Radar publishes a continuously-updating view of AI bot activity across the websites Cloudflare protects. You can see which user-agents drive the most requests, how that share shifts week to week, and which industries each bot crawls hardest. The data refreshes on Cloudflare's side, so the link below is always current.

Open Cloudflare Radar AI Insights

What you'll find there

·User-agent share for every tracked AI bot, including Rakuten's
·Robots.txt and crawl-purpose breakdowns per operator
·Industry and content-type targets for each crawler
·Time-series trends going back several months