# Changelog of Rakuten Product Scraper (`sian.agency/rakuten-product-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/rakuten-product-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/rakuten-product-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to Rakuten Product Scraper will be documented in this file.

### \[1.0.0] - 2026-07-14

#### 🎉 Rakuten Product Scraper - Launch!

- **No-Code Keyword Search** - Scrape Rakuten Ichiba by typing search terms in Japanese (`コーヒー`) or English (`coffee`) — no account, no API key, no code needed.
- **Two Scrape Modes** - Fast **Overview** for wide catalog sweeps (~45 products per page) and **Detail** for full specifications, long descriptions and complete image galleries — all in one clean dataset.
- **25 Structured Fields** - Every product returns JPY price, Rakuten points, free-shipping flag, ratings, review count, shop, genre, images and live stock as export-ready Rakuten Ichiba data.
- **Native Rakuten Filters** - Sort by relevance, price or reviews, set a JPY price band, target a genre id or restrict to a single shop — the exact controls real shoppers use.
- **Authoritative JPY Pricing** - Detail mode scrapes the tax-included price straight from each product page — the number your customers actually pay.
- **Clean JSON / CSV / Excel Export** - One search in, one tidy dataset out — ready for pricing sheets, product feeds and dashboards.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- Turn Japan's #1 marketplace into structured data in under a minute — no scraping code to maintain.
- Free tier included (25 products per run) with pay-per-result pricing on paid — you only pay for the Rakuten data you keep.
- Decision-ready fields: JPY price, Rakuten points and live availability let you calculate true landed cost and act on stock-outs instantly.
- Search Japanese or English keywords and export to JSON, CSV or Excel with zero reshaping.

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- E-commerce sellers running daily Rakuten price monitoring to protect margin and factor in loyalty points.
- Pricing analysts building competitor pricing intelligence across Rakuten Ichiba shops.
- Category managers doing catalog and assortment research by sweeping entire Rakuten genres.
- Operations teams running in-stock and availability checks on key products.
- Marketplace and comparison sites extracting full product specs for feeds with the Rakuten product scraper.
- Analysts conducting Japan market and demand research from ratings, reviews and price distributions.