Remove NetworkX from cognee core.

cognee/api/v1/add/add.py

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ async def add(
         - DEFAULT_USER_EMAIL: Custom default user email
         - DEFAULT_USER_PASSWORD: Custom default user password
         - VECTOR_DB_PROVIDER: "lancedb" (default), "chromadb", "pgvector"
-        - GRAPH_DATABASE_PROVIDER: "kuzu" (default), "neo4j", "networkx"
+        - GRAPH_DATABASE_PROVIDER: "kuzu" (default), "neo4j"
 
     Raises:
         FileNotFoundError: If specified file paths don't exist

cognee/infrastructure/databases/graph/get_graph_engine.py

@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ async def get_graph_engine() -> GraphDBInterface:
     if hasattr(graph_client, "initialize"):
         await graph_client.initialize()
 
-    # Handle loading of graph for NetworkX
-    if config["graph_database_provider"].lower() == "networkx" and graph_client.graph is None:
-        await graph_client.load_graph_from_file()
 
     return graph_client
 
@@ -181,8 +178,7 @@ def create_graph_engine(
             graph_id=graph_identifier,
         )
 
-    from .networkx.adapter import NetworkXAdapter
+    raise EnvironmentError(
-
+        f"Unsupported graph database provider: {graph_database_provider}. "
-    graph_client = NetworkXAdapter(filename=graph_file_path)
+        f"Supported providers are: {', '.join(list(supported_databases.keys()) + ['neo4j', 'falkordb', 'kuzu', 'kuzu-remote', 'memgraph', 'neptune', 'neptune_analytics'])}"
-
+    )
-    return graph_client

cognee/modules/retrieval/cypher_search_retriever.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 from typing import Any, Optional
 from cognee.infrastructure.databases.graph import get_graph_engine
-from cognee.infrastructure.databases.graph.networkx.adapter import NetworkXAdapter
 from cognee.modules.retrieval.base_retriever import BaseRetriever
 from cognee.modules.retrieval.utils.completion import generate_completion
 from cognee.modules.retrieval.exceptions import SearchTypeNotSupported, CypherSearchError
@@ -31,8 +30,7 @@ class CypherSearchRetriever(BaseRetriever):
         """
         Retrieves relevant context using a cypher query.
 
-        If the graph engine is an instance of NetworkXAdapter, raises SearchTypeNotSupported. If
+        If any error occurs during execution, logs the error and raises CypherSearchError.
-        any error occurs during execution, logs the error and raises CypherSearchError.
 
         Parameters:
         -----------
@@ -46,12 +44,6 @@ class CypherSearchRetriever(BaseRetriever):
         """
         try:
             graph_engine = await get_graph_engine()
-
-            if isinstance(graph_engine, NetworkXAdapter):
-                raise SearchTypeNotSupported(
-                    "CYPHER search type not supported for NetworkXAdapter."
-                )
-
             result = await graph_engine.query(query)
         except Exception as e:
             logger.error("Failed to execture cypher search retrieval: %s", str(e))

cognee/modules/retrieval/natural_language_retriever.py

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 from typing import Any, Optional
 from cognee.shared.logging_utils import get_logger
 from cognee.infrastructure.databases.graph import get_graph_engine
-from cognee.infrastructure.databases.graph.networkx.adapter import NetworkXAdapter
+from cognee.infrastructure.llm.get_llm_client import get_llm_client
-from cognee.infrastructure.llm.LLMGateway import LLMGateway
+from cognee.infrastructure.llm.prompts import render_prompt
 from cognee.modules.retrieval.base_retriever import BaseRetriever
 from cognee.modules.retrieval.exceptions import SearchTypeNotSupported
 from cognee.infrastructure.databases.graph.graph_db_interface import GraphDBInterface
@@ -122,10 +122,6 @@ class NaturalLanguageRetriever(BaseRetriever):
               query.
         """
         graph_engine = await get_graph_engine()
-
-        if isinstance(graph_engine, (NetworkXAdapter)):
-            raise SearchTypeNotSupported("Natural language search type not supported.")
-
         return await self._execute_cypher_query(query, graph_engine)
 
     async def get_completion(self, query: str, context: Optional[Any] = None) -> Any:

cognee/modules/visualization/cognee_network_visualization.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import os
 import json
-import networkx
 
 from cognee.shared.logging_utils import get_logger
 from cognee.infrastructure.files.storage.LocalFileStorage import LocalFileStorage
@@ -8,7 +7,37 @@ from cognee.infrastructure.files.storage.LocalFileStorage import LocalFileStorag
 logger = get_logger()
 
 
+def _import_networkx():
+    """Dynamically import networkx with helpful error message if not available."""
+    try:
+        import networkx
+        return networkx
+    except ImportError:
+        raise ImportError(
+            "NetworkX is required for graph visualization but is not installed. "
+            "Please install it with: pip install 'cognee[visualization]' or pip install networkx"
+        )
+
+
 async def cognee_network_visualization(graph_data, destination_file_path: str = None):
+    """
+    Generate an interactive HTML visualization of the graph data.
+    
+    This function requires NetworkX to be installed. If you don't have NetworkX installed,
+    you can install it with: pip install 'cognee[visualization]' or pip install networkx
+    
+    Args:
+        graph_data: Tuple of (nodes_data, edges_data)
+        destination_file_path: Optional path to save the HTML file
+        
+    Returns:
+        str: Path to the generated HTML file
+        
+    Raises:
+        ImportError: If NetworkX is not installed
+    """
+    networkx = _import_networkx()
+    
     nodes_data, edges_data = graph_data
 
     G = networkx.DiGraph()

cognee/shared/utils.py

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 import os
 import requests
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
-import networkx as nx
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import http.server
 import socketserver

pyproject.toml

@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "pypdf>=4.1.0,<6.0.0",
     "jinja2>=3.1.3,<4",
     "matplotlib>=3.8.3,<4",
-    "networkx>=3.4.2,<4",
     "lancedb>=0.24.0,<1.0.0",
     "alembic>=1.13.3,<2",
     "pre-commit>=4.0.1,<5",
@@ -120,6 +119,7 @@ gui = [
     "qasync>=0.27.1,<0.28",
 ]
 graphiti = ["graphiti-core>=0.7.0,<0.8"]
+visualization = ["networkx>=3.4.2,<4"]
 # Note: New s3fs and boto3 versions don't work well together
 # Always use comaptible fixed versions of these two dependencies
 aws = ["s3fs[boto3]==2025.3.2"]