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The Rakuten plugin returns items from Rakuten Ichiba (rakuten.co.jp), Japan’s largest online marketplace, as structured JSON. It is two endpoints:
  • /marketplace/rakuten-search - the items for a keyword (in Japanese or English): item id and code, the shop, title and subtitle, link and images, the price in yen (and the top of the range when variants are priced differently), the Rakuten points a signed-out shopper earns, rating and review count, shipping fee, delivery estimate, unit price, subscription price, the daily genre rank, sold-out, used, pre-order and super-deal flags, genres and tags. Rakuten’s sponsored items come back separately in sponsored. Rakuten serves 45 items per page; one call collects up to 450.
  • /marketplace/rakuten-product - one item: the shop, title, tagline and description, condition, price (tax included), free shipping, availability and stock (when the shop shares it), delivery message, order limit, rating, genre and breadcrumbs, the shop’s own categories, attributes, the variant options and every variant (SKU) with its options, price, availability, stock, JAN code and image, and the images.
Rakuten Ichiba is a Japanese site: titles and descriptions are in Japanese, and prices are in yen, tax included. No Rakuten account or API key is involved.
Try it in the dashboard first: app.scrapeunblocker.com/dashboard/plugins. You get a live results view plus a copy-paste snippet.
To search with a Rakuten search link, leave the first argument out and pass url (su.rakuten_search(url="https://search.rakuten.co.jp/search/mall/...") in Python, su.rakutenSearch(undefined, { url }) in Node.js).

Response

Product

Each item is billed as one request. Rakuten points are shown on search results, not here.

Response

Errors

What you can build

  • Japan market research - see what sells in a category by rank, reviews and price.
  • Price and point monitoring - track yen prices, sales, point multipliers and shipping for your items or competitors’.
  • Shop analysis - follow a shop’s assortment, variants and stock.
  • Cross-border sourcing - find Japanese products with their JAN codes and specifications.

Next steps

Open the plugins

Run a Rakuten search and grab the JSON.

Get an API key

Free trial available on the pricing page.