rakutenusabot-image

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Rakuten's image-extraction bot, which retrieves product images from merchant sites that have partnered with Rakuten. Its bot page names the identifying token that appears in the user-agent string and gives an abuse contact.

Operated by Rakuten · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexrakutenusabot-image/[\d.]+
observedMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; rakutenusabot-image/1.0; +https://product-image.ebates.com/item-gsp/rakutenusabot.html) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
observedMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; rakutenusabot-image/1.0) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
Verifiable
Operator publishes no verification path
Respects robots.txt
Does not honor robots.txt
Behaves
Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset
Reachable operator
Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.