apoc.export.csv.query

Procedure APOC Core

apoc.export.csv.query(query,file,{config,…​,params:{params}}) - exports results from the cypher statement as csv to the provided file

Signature

apoc.export.csv.query(query :: STRING?, file :: STRING?, config :: MAP?) :: (file :: STRING?, source :: STRING?, format :: STRING?, nodes :: INTEGER?, relationships :: INTEGER?, properties :: INTEGER?, time :: INTEGER?, rows :: INTEGER?, batchSize :: INTEGER?, batches :: INTEGER?, done :: BOOLEAN?, data :: STRING?)

Input parameters

Name Type Default

query

STRING?

null

file

STRING?

null

config

MAP?

null

Output parameters

Name Type

file

STRING?

source

STRING?

format

STRING?

nodes

INTEGER?

relationships

INTEGER?

properties

INTEGER?

time

INTEGER?

rows

INTEGER?

batchSize

INTEGER?

batches

INTEGER?

done

BOOLEAN?

data

STRING?

Usage Examples

The examples in this section are based on the following sample graph:

CREATE (TheMatrix:Movie {title:'The Matrix', released:1999, tagline:'Welcome to the Real World'})
CREATE (Keanu:Person {name:'Keanu Reeves', born:1964})
CREATE (Carrie:Person {name:'Carrie-Anne Moss', born:1967})
CREATE (Laurence:Person {name:'Laurence Fishburne', born:1961})
CREATE (Hugo:Person {name:'Hugo Weaving', born:1960})
CREATE (LillyW:Person {name:'Lilly Wachowski', born:1967})
CREATE (LanaW:Person {name:'Lana Wachowski', born:1965})
CREATE (JoelS:Person {name:'Joel Silver', born:1952})
CREATE
(Keanu)-[:ACTED_IN {roles:['Neo']}]->(TheMatrix),
(Carrie)-[:ACTED_IN {roles:['Trinity']}]->(TheMatrix),
(Laurence)-[:ACTED_IN {roles:['Morpheus']}]->(TheMatrix),
(Hugo)-[:ACTED_IN {roles:['Agent Smith']}]->(TheMatrix),
(LillyW)-[:DIRECTED]->(TheMatrix),
(LanaW)-[:DIRECTED]->(TheMatrix),
(JoelS)-[:PRODUCED]->(TheMatrix);

The Neo4j Browser visualization below shows the imported graph:

play movies

The apoc.export.csv.query procedure exports the results of a Cypher query to a CSV file or as a stream.

The following query exports all DIRECTED relationships and the nodes with Person and Movie labels on either side of that relationship to the file movies-directed.csv:

WITH "MATCH path = (person:Person)-[:DIRECTED]->(movie)
      RETURN person.name AS name, person.born AS born,
             movie.title AS title, movie.tagline AS tagline, movie.released AS released" AS query
CALL apoc.export.csv.query(query, "movies-directed.csv", {})
YIELD file, source, format, nodes, relationships, properties, time, rows, batchSize, batches, done, data
RETURN file, source, format, nodes, relationships, properties, time, rows, batchSize, batches, done, data;
Table 1. Results
file source format nodes relationships properties time rows batchSize batches done data

"movies-directed.csv"

"statement: cols(5)"

"csv"

0

0

10

3

2

20000

1

TRUE

NULL

The contents of movies-directed.csv are shown below:

"name","born","role","title","tagline","released"
"Lilly Wachowski","1967","","The Matrix","Welcome to the Real World","1999"
"Lana Wachowski","1965","","The Matrix","Welcome to the Real World","1999"

The following query returns a stream of all DIRECTED relationships and the nodes with Person and Movie labels on either side of that relationship:

WITH "MATCH path = (person:Person)-[:DIRECTED]->(movie)
      RETURN person.name AS name, person.born AS born,
             movie.title AS title, movie.tagline AS tagline, movie.released AS released" AS query
CALL apoc.export.csv.query(query, null, {stream: true})
YIELD file, nodes, relationships, properties, data
RETURN file, nodes, relationships, properties, data;
Table 2. Results
file nodes relationships properties data

NULL

0

0

10

"\"name\",\"born\",\"title\",\"tagline\",\"released\" \"Lilly Wachowski\",\"1967\",\"The Matrix\",\"Welcome to the Real World\",\"1999\" \"Lana Wachowski\",\"1965\",\"The Matrix\",\"Welcome to the Real World\",\"1999\" "

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