Neo4j Movies Application: Quick Start
This example application demonstrates how easy it is to get started with Neo4j in Python.
It is a very simple web application that uses our Movie graph dataset to provide a search with listing, a detail view and a graph visualization.
The Stack
These are the components of our Web Application:
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Application Type: Python-Web Application
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Web framework: Flask (Micro-Webframework)
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Neo4j Database Connector: Neo4j Python Driver for Cypher Docs
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Database: Neo4j-Server (4.x) with multi-database
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Frontend: jquery, bootstrap, d3.js
Provision a database quickly with Neo4j Sandbox or Neo4j Aura.
Setup
First get yourself setup with virtualenv so we don’t break any other Python stuff you have on your machine. After you’ve got that installed let’s setup an environment for our app:
virtualenv neo4j-movies
source neo4j-movies/bin/activateThe next step is to install the dependencies for the app with pip (or pip3 for python3):
pip install -r requirements.txtRun locally
Start your local Neo4j Server (Download & Install), open the Neo4j Browser. Then install the Movies data-set with :play movies, click the statement, and hit the triangular "Run" button.
And finally let’s start up a Flask web server:
python movies.py
# or python3 movies.py
Running on http://127.0.0.1:8080/Navigate to http://localhost:8080 and you should see your first Neo4j application
Configuration options
| Environment variable name | Default value (or N/A) |
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PORT |
8080 |
NEO4J_URI |
neo4j+s://demo.neo4jlabs.com |
NEO4J_USER |
movies |
NEO4J_PASSWORD |
movies |
NEO4J_DATABASE |
movies |
10 Dec 08, 2022
2 Oct 20, 2021
93 Nov 28, 2022
1 Dec 16, 2021
718 Dec 20, 2022
2 Jan 31, 2022
6 Jan 06, 2023
197 Dec 29, 2022
6 May 07, 2022
3 Nov 25, 2021
2 May 13, 2022
159 Jan 04, 2023
22 Sep 08, 2021
457 Dec 02, 2022
1.3k Jan 05, 2023
11 Dec 27, 2022
5 Jul 15, 2022
0 Apr 17, 2022
2.2k Jan 04, 2023
549 Nov 10, 2022