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Example thread on how to load #JSON into #Neo4j Aura -- working up from simple to more complex. Let's use the .@TheHackersNews public API to load a mini-feed of stories.
First: head endpoint with best stories, and simplest JSON load:
First: head endpoint with best stories, and simplest JSON load:
the apoc.load.json call always returns "value" with whatever came back. HackerNews is sending results, an array of post IDs.
We can extract out just the post IDs with a bit of extra cypher like this. Nice clean array of long values.
We can extract out just the post IDs with a bit of extra cypher like this. Nice clean array of long values.
One step further; now we will UNWIND the array, turning the nested array into each individual item, and then build the URL we'll ask of HackerNews to get the detail of each story. This is how we build URLs one by one; we just take the story ID and concat it into a string URL
