How to get node's id with cypher request?

neo4j cypher
Aleksandrenko picture Aleksandrenko · Oct 5, 2014 · Viewed 17.3k times · Source

I'm using neo4j and making executing this query:

MATCH (n:Person) RETURN n.name LIMIT 5

I'm getting the names but i need the ids too. Please help!

Answer

subvertallchris picture subvertallchris · Oct 5, 2014

Since ID isn't a property, it's returned using the ID function.

MATCH (n:Person) RETURN ID(n) LIMIT 5

Related questions

Return node if relationship is not present

I'm trying to create a query using cypher that will "Find" missing ingredients that a chef might have, My graph is set up like so: (ingredient_value)-[:is_part_of]->(ingredient) (ingredient) would have a key/value …

Read More
How to reset / clear / delete neo4j database?

We can delete all nodes and relationships by following query. MATCH (n) OPTIONAL MATCH (n)-[r]-() DELETE n,r But newly created node get internal id as ({last node internal id} + 1) . It doesn't reset to zero. How can …

Read More
Adding relationship to existing nodes with Cypher

I'm trying out Neo4j for the first time. I'm using the 2.0-RC1 community edition. I've created some nodes: MERGE (u:User{username:'admin',password:'admin'}) MERGE (r1:Role{name:'ROLE_ADMIN'}) MERGE (r2:Role{name:'ROLE_WEB_USER'}) MERGE (…

Read More