Introducing the APOC library to deal with JSON data

The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file format is another data format you have probably used in your data science work. It is used by NoSQL document-like databases (or an equivalent of it, such as Binary JSON (BSON) for MongoDB). It is also one of the most used formats for data serialization and hence sharing data via web interfaces (APIs).

In this section, we will learn how to import JSON data into Neo4j. This format is not supported by Cypher directly, so we will have to rely on the APOC library to load such data. First, let’s have a look at the dataset we are going to use in this section.

Browsing the dataset

The file we are going to use contains the same data we used in the previous section but in a different format. Here is an example record from the JSON file:

{'cast': [{'name': 'Billy Magnussen'},
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