About this bot
Rakuten Image extraction bot is a crawler associated with Rakuten and used for scraping.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is rakutenusabot-image. Representative HTTP request identity: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; rakutenusabot-image/1.0) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Unverified with Medium confidence. Identity type: observed.
robots.txt behavior is currently unconfirmed. Do not assume robots.txt alone will control this traffic.
Risk classification: Neutral. Recommended handling is to evaluate the request context before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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rakutenusabot-imageMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; rakutenusabot-image/1.0) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Rakuten
- Purpose
- Scraping
- Common Use
- Rakuten Image extraction bot is used for public web data collection, page extraction, content monitoring, and third-party crawler activity.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `rakutenusabot-image` as an identification signal only. Corroborate the claimed identity independently before applying trust-based rules.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `rakutenusabot-image` User-Agent token. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Use server-side controls if restriction is required.