Neo4j plugin missing in Gephi 0.9.1 version

Question

I am pretty new to neo4j. In my graph, there are more than 5k nodes and neo4j browser doesnt show all the nodes, as there seems to be a limit and picture is messy as well. So i was trying to gephi 0.9 and installed the same. But I am unable to find the neo4j database plugin. I checked under Tools --> plugins --> available plugins section

Please let me know, if I am missing something here.

Plugin screenshot

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You don't actually need the Neo4j plugin for Gephi, as you can use neo4j-shell-tools instead to do a GraphML export, and open that in Gephi.

Beware that the option parsing of export-graphml is a bit buggy (and I should open an issue about it); if you want to use the -t or -r flags, they have to be specified before -o, like this:

export-graphml -r -o out.graphml match ...

I also had to add some metadata description to the GraphML file so Gephi finds more data (and I should also open an issue about that, at least for the generic metadata). The beginning of the file looks like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<graphml xmlns="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns/1.0/graphml.xsd">
<graph id="G" edgedefault="directed">

which I changed to

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<graphml xmlns="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns/1.0/graphml.xsd">
<key attr.name="label" attr.type="string" for="node" id="labels"/>
<key attr.name="label" attr.type="string" for="edge" id="label"/>
<key attr.name="someProperty" attr.type="boolean" for="node" id="someProperty"/>
<!-- more descriptions of node properties -->
<graph id="G" edgedefault="directed">