Rakuten Price API — Offers & Seller Data

Rakuten listing, pricing, and seller data centered on Japan — normalized into one schema for JP marketplace repricing and cross-border sourcing

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· Free tier available · Plans from €399/mo

Coverage

Japan

Delivery

Webhooks or Polling

Integration

One API Endpoint

Schema

Complete Rakuten Marketplace Data

One unified schema for Rakuten listings. Pricing, seller signals, and product context in one structure.

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content

11 fields

Sourcesource

Product Namename

Brandbrand_name

GTINgtin

Product IDproduct_id

URLurl

Image URLimage_url

Currencycurrency

…

offers[]

5 fields

Positionposition

Seller Nameseller_name

Seller Typeseller_type

Priceprice

Currencycurrency

context

1 fields

Per-Item-Page Shape—

Developer Experience

One Endpoint.
Multiple Sources

Rakuten is a native integration within the kwery API. No separate implementation required.

Rakuten data is available through the same kwery API endpoint as all other sources. Specify source: "rakuten" in your request. Same webhook delivery, same audit trails, same reliability guarantees.

Stream results as they complete. Same pipeline as your other marketplace jobs.

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POST · api.kwery.co/stream

200 OK

# Submit a job querying Rakuten Japan
curl -X POST "https://api.kwery.co/stream" \
  -u "$KWERY_USER:$KWERY_PASS" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "source": "rakuten",
    "country": "jp",
    "key": "jan",
    "values": ["4901234567890", "4901234567891"],
    "callback_url": "https://your-app.example.com/webhook"
  }'

Global Coverage

Rakuten Marketplaces

Rakuten's largest market is Japan. kwery focuses coverage there and supports international Rakuten regions on request.

1 Market

jpJapan

Self-Serve

One Credit. One Resolved SKU

Product matching, product page, and offers — billed as a single credit.

Product Matching

Identify the correct product within the requested source using GTIN or URL.

Product Page

Title, brand, specs, images, and category — fully normalized.

Offers

Every seller, price, condition, and shipping option in the offer section.

Entry Price

€399 / mo

Included

100k credits / mo

Overage

€3.99 / 1k credits

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1,000 free credits on signup — no credit card required.

Enterprise

Need Custom Pricing, SLAs, or Support?

Dedicated volume pricing, custom SLAs, and direct engineering support for teams running millions of SKUs.

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Use Cases

What Teams Build With
Rakuten Data

One endpoint feeds the systems engineering teams ship to production — monitoring, sourcing, and intelligence.

Storefront Intelligence

Rakuten Ichiba doesn't merge listings into a shared Buy Box — each seller runs an independent branded storefront. Track competing storefronts selling similar products to model competitive pressure per category.

See how Rakuten repricing works

Points-Adjusted Price Intelligence

A listed price alone doesn't determine the best deal a shopper sees — Rakuten Super Points (redeemable across Rakuten's whole ecosystem) change the effective price. Track pricing with that adjustment in mind.

See Rakuten storefront intelligence

MAP & Brand Protection

Monitor storefront seller identity, observed price, and points context across Rakuten Ichiba's independent listings.

See how MAP monitoring works

Building an AI Shopping Agent?

Support

Common Questions

Answers to Rakuten-specific questions about pricing, sellers, and integration.

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Both the listed price and the points-back rate are returned per offer, along with an effective net price that bakes in points. Your repricing engine can compare apples to apples.

Yes. Shop name, rating, and review count are returned on every offer—useful for filtering trusted sellers in your competitive set.

Yes. JAN, EAN, and Rakuten item codes are all supported lookup keys.

Product titles and category paths are returned in original Japanese. Optional transliteration is available on request—most pricing use cases don't require it.

Japan is our primary coverage. Other Rakuten markets are available on enterprise plans—contact us for specifics.

Live on every request. Streaming jobs deliver results as soon as collection completes.

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