anywidget-graph

Interactive graph visualization for Python notebooks.

Works with Marimo, Jupyter, VS Code, Colab, anywhere anywidget runs.

Features

• Universal: One widget, every notebook environment
• Backend-agnostic: Grafeo, Neo4j, NetworkX, pandas, or raw dicts
• Interactive: Pan, zoom, click, drag, pin, expand neighbors, box select
• Customizable: Colors, sizes, layouts, dark mode
• Exportable: HTML, JSON

Installation

uv add anywidget-graph

Optional extras:

uv add "anywidget-graph[networkx]"   # NetworkX support
uv add "anywidget-graph[pandas]"     # pandas support
uv add "anywidget-graph[grafeo]"     # Grafeo backend
uv add "anywidget-graph[cosmosdb]"   # CosmosDB / Gremlin support

Quick Start

from anywidget_graph import Graph

graph = Graph.from_dict({
    "nodes": [
        {"id": "alice", "label": "Alice", "group": "person"},
        {"id": "bob", "label": "Bob", "group": "person"},
        {"id": "paper", "label": "Graph Theory", "group": "document"},
    ],
    "edges": [
        {"source": "alice", "target": "bob", "label": "knows"},
        {"source": "alice", "target": "paper", "label": "authored"},
    ]
})

graph

Data Sources

Dictionary

graph = Graph.from_dict({
    "nodes": [{"id": "a"}, {"id": "b"}],
    "edges": [{"source": "a", "target": "b"}]
})

Direct initialization

graph = Graph(
    nodes=[{"id": "a", "label": "Alice"}, {"id": "b", "label": "Bob"}],
    edges=[{"source": "a", "target": "b", "label": "KNOWS"}],
)

Cypher results (Neo4j)

from neo4j import GraphDatabase

driver = GraphDatabase.driver("bolt://localhost:7687", auth=("neo4j", "password"))

with driver.session() as session:
    result = session.run("MATCH (a)-[r]->(b) RETURN a, r, b LIMIT 100")
    graph = Graph.from_cypher(result)

GQL results

graph = Graph.from_gql(result)

SPARQL results

from rdflib import Graph as RDFGraph

g = RDFGraph()
g.parse("data.ttl")
result = g.query("SELECT ?s ?p ?o WHERE { ?s ?p ?o }")
graph = Graph.from_sparql(result)

Gremlin results (CosmosDB, TinkerPop)

graph = Graph.from_gremlin(result)

GraphQL results

graph = Graph.from_graphql(
    response.json(),
    nodes_path="data.characters.results",
    id_field="id",
    label_field="name",
)

NetworkX

import networkx as nx

G = nx.karate_club_graph()
graph = Graph.from_networkx(G)

pandas DataFrames

import pandas as pd

nodes_df = pd.DataFrame({"id": ["alice", "bob"], "group": ["person", "person"]})
edges_df = pd.DataFrame({"source": ["alice"], "target": ["bob"], "weight": [1.0]})

graph = Graph.from_dataframe(nodes_df, edges_df)

Interactivity

Events

graph = Graph.from_dict(data)

@graph.on_node_click
def handle_node(node_id, node_data):
    print(f"Clicked: {node_id}")

@graph.on_edge_click
def handle_edge(edge_data):
    print(f"Edge: {edge_data['label']}")

@graph.on_selection
def handle_selection(node_ids):
    print(f"Selected: {node_ids}")

Selection

graph.selected_nodes            # Current selection (list of IDs)
graph.selection_mode = "box"    # Switch to box-select mode

Node expansion

graph.expand_node("alice")      # Fetch and merge neighbors (requires backend)

Node pinning

graph.pin_nodes(["alice", "bob"])   # Pin at current positions
graph.unpin_nodes(["alice"])        # Release back to layout
graph.toggle_pin("bob")            # Toggle pin state
graph.unpin_all()                   # Unpin everything

Clear

graph.clear()                   # Remove all nodes, edges, pins, and selection

Styling

Property-based coloring

graph = Graph.from_dict(
    data,
    color_field="group",               # Color nodes by field
    color_scale="viridis",             # Scale: viridis, plasma, inferno, magma, cividis, turbo
    size_field="score",                # Size nodes by field
    size_range=[5, 30],                # Min/max node size
)

Edge styling

graph.edge_color_field = "type"
graph.edge_color_scale = "plasma"
graph.edge_size_field = "weight"
graph.edge_size_range = [1, 8]

Layouts

Graph.from_dict(data, layout="force")      # ForceAtlas2 (default)
Graph.from_dict(data, layout="circular")
Graph.from_dict(data, layout="random")

Options

graph = Graph(
    nodes=nodes,
    edges=edges,
    width=800,                  # Widget width (px)
    height=600,                 # Widget height (px)
    background="#fafafa",       # Background color
    show_labels=True,           # Node labels
    show_edge_labels=False,     # Edge labels
    show_toolbar=True,          # Toolbar visibility
    show_settings=True,         # Settings panel
    show_query_input=True,      # Query input box
    dark_mode=True,             # Dark theme
    show_tooltip=True,          # Hover tooltips
    tooltip_fields=["label", "id"],
    max_nodes=300,              # Limit for node expansion
)

Database Backends

Grafeo (default)

import grafeo
db = grafeo.GrafeoDB()
graph = Graph(database_backend="grafeo", grafeo_db=db)

Neo4j (browser-side)

graph = Graph(
    database_backend="neo4j",
    connection_uri="neo4j+s://demo.neo4jlabs.com",
    connection_username="neo4j",
    connection_password="password",
)

Generic backend

graph = Graph(backend=my_backend)  # Any object implementing DatabaseBackend protocol

Export

graph.to_json()                         # JSON string with nodes and edges
graph.to_html()                         # Self-contained HTML string
graph.to_html(title="My Graph")         # Custom title
graph.save_html("graph.html")           # Write HTML to file

Environment Support

Environment	Supported
Marimo	Yes
JupyterLab	Yes
Jupyter Notebook	Yes
VS Code	Yes
Google Colab	Yes
Databricks	Yes

Related

• anywidget, custom Jupyter widgets made easy
• Grafeo, embeddable graph database
• grafeo-web, Grafeo in the browser

License

Apache-2.0