Why are rating and review_count null?

Some storefronts don't display them. The response reports what the page shows rather than estimating.

Does it list the shop's products?

No. Use Rakuten shop items for the catalog.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a lookup cost?

5 points per successful run, which is $5 per 1,000. Shops that don't resolve are not charged.

E-commerce & Marketplaces

Rakuten Ichiba Shop Data — Name, Description, Rating & Branding

Send a Rakuten shop code, or the shop URL, and this source returns the storefront as structured data: shop id, name, alias, URL, description, logo, cover image, rating, review count and whether it is a free-shipping shop.

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Example response

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "rakuten_shop",
  "shop": "blueritual",
  "shop_code": "blueritual",
  "human": "# Rakuten shop\n\n- **Shop:** blueritual\n- **Proxy traffic:** 648.6 KB\n- **Name:** Blue Ritual珈琲\n- **URL:** https://www.rakuten.co.jp/blueritual/\n- **Free-shipping shop:** yes",
  "machine": {
    "shop": {
      "id": 443067,
      "name": "Blue Ritual珈琲",
      "alias": "blueritual",
      "url": "https://www.rakuten.co.jp/blueritual/",
      "description": "Blue Ritual珈琲ではおすすめ人気商品を多数取り揃えております。豊富な口コミやランキングからお気に入りの商品がきっと見つかります。在庫に限りのある商品も多いので、気になるものはお早めにチェック！",
      "image": "https://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/blueritual/logo/logo1n.jpg?_ex=200x200",
      "cover": "https://shop.r10s.jp/blueritual/cabinet/13656034/top1920_640.jpg",
      "rating": null,
      "review_count": null,
      "is_free_shipping_shop": true
    },
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 664119
  },
  "total_points": 5
}

You send: A Rakuten shop code or shop URL
You get back: Shop name, description, logo, cover, rating and review count
Coverage: Rakuten Ichiba shops with a public storefront page.
Price: 5 pts — $5 per 1,000; Flat 5 points per successful run. A shop that doesn't resolve is not billed.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
Opening the storefront by hand	Open the page and read it	Free, and slow	Fine for one shop, useless across a list of sellers
Building a scraper	Write it, host it, and repair it when Rakuten changes the page	Engineering time	A maintenance commitment for something that isn't your product
NeuralVerge	One request per shop	$5 per 1,000, misses not billed	Returns the profile the storefront publishes; rating may be empty

Response

What you get back

Every field in the response shown above.

Field	Type	Description
`shop.id`	number	Rakuten's numeric shop ID.
`shop.name`	string	Shop name as shown on the storefront.
`shop.alias`	string	Shop code, as used in item and shop URLs.
`shop.url`	string	Link to the shop's storefront.
`shop.description`	string	Shop description text.
`shop.image`	string	Logo image URL.
`shop.cover`	string	Cover banner image URL.
`shop.rating`	number	Shop rating. Null when the storefront doesn't show one.
`shop.review_count`	number	Number of shop reviews. Null when not shown.
`shop.is_free_shipping_shop`	boolean	Whether the shop is flagged as a free-shipping shop.

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

One shop per request. shop accepts the shop code or a shop URL. Use the same shop code with Rakuten shop items to list the shop's catalog.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-rakuten-shops \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "shop": "sawaicoffee-tea" }'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Seller profiling

Pull a profile for each shop you see in search results or competitor lists.

Competitor tracking

Keep name, branding and rating for rival shops in one table.

Partner vetting

Check a shop's storefront details before you contact or list with it.

Feeding a catalog pull

Confirm the shop code before running Rakuten shop items.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

Rakuten Ichiba shops with a public storefront page.

Freshness

Read at request time.

Handling

This source returns publicly visible storefront information, stamped with the shop it was read from and a session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Rating and review_count are null for shops that don't show them.
—The description is the shop's own text and may be generic.
—This is a profile only. It doesn't include the shop's items.

FAQ

Questions, answered

It is the first path segment of a Rakuten item URL, and it comes back as shop.alias in item and search results.

Related sources

Rakuten shop items

The shop's item catalog.

Rakuten item

Full detail for one item from the shop.

Rakuten items search

Find items and shops by keyword.

All e-commerce & marketplaces

Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Rakuten, Shopify, Zalando and more: product, seller and review data.

Try rakuten shop on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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