rakutenusabot-image

What is rakutenusabot-image?

About

rakutenusabot-image is a specialized web crawler used by Rakuten to crawl and fetch product images from merchant websites. This enables Rakuten to display cashback deals with product imagery for their members. You can see how often rakutenusabot-image visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By Rakuten
Last Updated 15 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking rakutenusabot-image
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Country of Origin

Unknown
rakutenusabot-image has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
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Robots.txt

Should I Block rakutenusabot-image?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block rakutenusabot-image?

You can block rakutenusabot-image or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

How Do I Block All Fetchers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new fetchers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: rakutenusabot-image # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/rakutenusabot-image
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

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