Neo4j REST API From Python

This is a companion notebook for the new Data Science Solutions book. The code is explained in the book.

This notebook provides Python sample code to access Neo4j API. It assumes that you are running a local Neo4j server with user/password credentials as supplied.



In [3]:

    
import requests
import json

run_check = False
user = 'neo4j'
password = 'demo'
neo4j_server = 'http://localhost:7474'

if run_check:
    r = requests.post('{}/db/data/transaction'.format(neo4j_server), auth=(user, password))
    print(r.status_code)
    print(r.json())
    commitUrl = str(r.json()['commit'])
    commitUrl
else:
    print('Set run_check variable to True for running this code')









    



Set run_check variable to True for running this code



In [4]:

    
if run_check:
    movie_title = 'Blizzard'
    movie_tagline = 'The winds are changing'
    movie_release = 2014

    dataJson = """{
      "statements": [
        {
          "statement": "CREATE (m:Movie {title:'%s', tagline:'%s', released:%d});",
          "parameters": null,
          "resultDataContents": [
            "row",
            "graph"
          ],
          "includeStats": true
        }
      ]
    }""" % (movie_title, movie_tagline, movie_release)
    r = requests.post(commitUrl, data=dataJson, auth=(user, password))
    r.json()
else:
    print('Set run_check variable to True for running this code')









    



Set run_check variable to True for running this code