RDFLib is a pure Python package for working with RDF. RDFLib contains most things you need to work with RDF, including:
The RDFlib community maintains many RDF-related Python code repositories with different purposes. For example:
Please see the list for all packages/repositories here:
6.0.1-alpha current master branch6.x.y current release and support Python 3.7+ only. Many improvements over 5.0.05.x.y supports Python 2.7 and 3.4+ and is mostly backwards compatible with 4.2.2.See https://rdflib.dev for the release schedule.
See https://rdflib.readthedocs.io for our documentation built from the code. Note that there are latest, stable 5.0.0 and 4.2.2 documentation versions, matching releases.
The stable release of RDFLib may be installed with Python's package management tool pip:
Alternatively manually download the package from the Python Package Index (PyPI) at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rdflib
The current version of RDFLib is 6.0.0, see the CHANGELOG.md file for what's new in this release.
With pip you can also install rdflib from the git repository with one of the following options:
$ pip install git+https://github.com/rdflib/rdflib@master
or
$ pip install -e git+https://github.com/rdflib/rdflib@master#egg=rdflib
or from your locally cloned repository you can install it with one of the following options:
$ python setup.py install
or
RDFLib aims to be a pythonic RDF API. RDFLib's main data object is a Graph which is a Python collection of RDF Subject, Predicate, Object Triples:
To create graph and load it with RDF data from DBPedia then print the results:
from rdflib import Graph
g = Graph()
g.parse('http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web')
for s, p, o in g:
print(s, p, o)
The components of the triples are URIs (resources) or Literals (values).
URIs are grouped together by namespace, common namespaces are included in RDFLib:
from rdflib.namespace import DC, DCTERMS, DOAP, FOAF, SKOS, OWL, RDF, RDFS, VOID, XMLNS, XSD
You can use them like this:
from rdflib import Graph, URIRef, Literal
from rdflib.namespace import RDFS
g = Graph()
semweb = URIRef('http://dbpedia.org/resource/Semantic_Web')
type = g.value(semweb, RDFS.label)
Where RDFS is the RDFS Namespace, g.value returns an object of the triple-pattern given (or an arbitrary one if more exist).
Or like this, adding a triple to a graph g:
g.add((
URIRef("http://example.com/person/nick"),
FOAF.givenName,
Literal("Nick", datatype=XSD.string)
))
The triple (in n-triples notation) <http://example.com/person/nick> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName> "Nick"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string> . is created where the property FOAF.giveName is the URI <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/givenName> and XSD.string is the URI <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>.
You can bind namespaces to prefixes to shorten the URIs for RDF/XML, Turtle, N3, TriG, TriX & JSON-LD serializations:
g.bind("foaf", FOAF)
g.bind("xsd", XSD)
This will allow the n-triples triple above to be serialised like this:
print(g.serialize(format="turtle"))
With these results:
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> <http://example.com/person/nick> foaf:givenName "Nick"^^xsd:string .
New Namespaces can also be defined:
dbpedia = Namespace('http://dbpedia.org/ontology/')
abstracts = list(x for x in g.objects(semweb, dbpedia['abstract']) if x.language=='en')
See also ./examples
The library contains parsers and serializers for RDF/XML, N3, NTriples, N-Quads, Turtle, TriX, JSON-LD, RDFa and Microdata.
The library presents a Graph interface which can be backed by any one of a number of Store implementations.
This core RDFLib package includes store implementations for in-memory storage and persistent storage on top of the Berkeley DB.
A SPARQL 1.1 implementation is included - supporting SPARQL 1.1 Queries and Update statements.
RDFLib is open source and is maintained on GitHub. RDFLib releases, current and previous are listed on PyPI
Multiple other projects are contained within the RDFlib "family", see https://github.com/RDFLib/.
Running the tests on the hostRun the test suite with nose.
Run the test suite and generate a HTML coverage report with nose and coverage.
nosetests --with-timer --timer-top-n 42 --with-coverage --cover-tests --cover-package=rdflib
There is also a script, run_tests.py to run everything.
Run the test suite inside a Docker container for cross-platform support. This resolves issues such as installing BerkeleyDB on Windows and avoids the host and port issues on macOS.
Tip: If the underlying Dockerfile for the test runner changes, use make build.
Run the test suite inside a Docker container with HTML coverage report.
Once tests have produced HTML output of the coverage report, view it by running:
python -m http.server --directory=cover
RDFLib survives and grows via user contributions! Please read our contributing guide to get started. Please consider lodging Pull Requests here:
You can also raise issues here:
For general "how do I..." queries, please use https://stackoverflow.com and tag your question with rdflib. Existing questions:
If you want to contact the rdflib maintainers, please do so via:
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