{"id":5393,"date":"2020-03-11T16:08:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scraping-bot.io\/blogs\/how-to-scrape-product-listings-from-rakuten\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:41:35","slug":"how-to-scrape-product-listings-from-rakuten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scraping-bot.io\/blogs\/how-to-scrape-product-listings-from-rakuten\/","title":{"rendered":"How to scrape product listings from Rakuten?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5393\" class=\"elementor elementor-5393\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5743af8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5743af8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92f53a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"92f53a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Historically,<strong> ScrapingBot&#8217;s first API is the Retail API<\/strong>. It allows you to collect all the details you need from a product page: price, shipping fee, description, brand, and more!<\/p> <div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scraping-bot.io\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Rakuten.webp\" alt=\"Scrape Rakuten products with ScrapingBot\" class=\"wp-image-3592\" width=\"353\" height=\"205\"\/><\/figure><\/div> <p>Our last retail website scraping example was on the number 1 reference: <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/scraping-bot.io\/blogs\/how-to-scrape-an-ebay-product-page\/\" target=\"_blank\">eBay<\/a>. This time, we&#8217;re going to look at its chinese competitor: Rakuten.<\/p> <p>Rakuten is one of the biggest retail websites nowadays, for both professional and private sellers around the world. The strength of ScrapingBot is to scrape any format of a website. Even though the information you&#8217;re looking for is the same, eBay and Rakuten are very different in their HTML. <\/p> <p>We&#8217;ve done the test on products from different categories&#8230;<\/p> <div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div> <div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center\"> <div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-75 is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/scraping-bot.io\/blogs\/pricing-web-scraper-api\/\">See pricing of our Rakuten Scraper<\/a><\/div> <\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a556b5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a556b5f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Rakuten Scraper<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d27f78f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d27f78f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>High-tech<\/h3> <p>Here is the Rakuten product we&#8217;re going to scrape:<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scraping-bot.io\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Capture-d\ufffde?cran-2020-04-14-a?-11.28.06.png\" alt=\"Scraping data from Rakuten\" class=\"wp-image-3935\"\/><\/figure> <p>And here is the data we retrieved:<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scraping-bot.io\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Capture-d\ufffde?cran-2020-04-14-a?-11.26.31.png\" alt=\"Data retrieved from Rakuten listing\" class=\"wp-image-3936\"\/><\/figure> <p>In the parsed information, you can see the product price and currency, shipping fee, tittle, description and brand. You will also see the previous price at the bottom. Not all the retail websites are providing the EAN13 code, so it will stay blank when not present on the product page. <\/p> <p>We&#8217;re going to scrape another Rakuten product page, to see if the API performs equally in different categories.<\/p> <div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div> <div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center\"> <div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-75 is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/scraping-bot.io\/blogs\/pricing-web-scraper-api\/\">See pricing of our Rakuten Scraper<\/a><\/div> <\/div> <h3><strong>Home Appliances<\/strong><\/h3> <p>We&#8217;re now looking at a cooking robot. Please meet the Moulinex Cookeo, and its product page on the Rakuten website:<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scraping-bot.io\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Capture-d\ufffde?cran-2020-03-11-a?-14.47.16-1024x431.png\" alt=\"Scraping Rakuten\" class=\"wp-image-3588\"\/><\/figure> <p>Here is the scraped information from the Rakuten product page:<\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scraping-bot.io\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Capture-d\ufffde?cran-2020-03-11-a?-14.47.25.png\" alt=\"Rakuten scraper\" class=\"wp-image-3589\"\/><\/figure> <p>You can try it with the live test. <\/p> <p>Just tick the <em>Retail website data extraction<\/em> box and the advanced options you need.<\/p> <p>Scrape the retail websites you&#8217;re interested in, and see it by yourself!<\/p> <div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div> <div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center\"> <div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-75 is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/scraping-bot.io\/blogs\/pricing-web-scraper-api\/\">See pricing of our Rakuten Scraper<\/a><\/div> <\/div>\\\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, ScrapingBot&#8217;s first API is the Retail API. 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