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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does rakuten.co.jp block AI crawlers?

We couldn’t check rakuten.co.jp: its /robots.txt address answers with a web page rather than a robots.txt file.

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robots.txt
www.rakuten.co.jp/robots.txt · its /robots.txt address answers with a web page rather than a robots.txt file
llms.txt
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9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what rakuten.co.jp asks of crawlers. A firewall or CDN can still refuse a bot that robots.txt allows. The live check requests the page as each bot and shows the status it gets.

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