Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform

Gephi is an award-winning open-source platform for visualizing and manipulating large graphs. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Localization is available in English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, German, Romanian, Greek, Hungarian, Korean, Swedish and Ukrainian.

• Fast Powered by a built-in OpenGL engine, Gephi is able to push the envelope with very large networks. Visualize networks up to a million elements. All actions (e.g. layout, filter, drag) run in real-time.

• Simple Easy to install and get started. An UI that is centered around the visualization. Like Photoshop™ for graphs.

• Modular Extend Gephi with plug-ins. The architecture is built on top of Apache Netbeans Platform and can be extended or reused easily through well-written APIs.

Download Gephi for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and consult the release notes. Example datasets can be found on our wiki.

Install and use Gephi

Download and Install Gephi on your computer.

Get started with the Quick Start and follow the Tutorials. Load a sample dataset and start to play with the data.

If you run into any trouble or have questions consult our discussions.

Latest releases

Stable

• Latest stable release on gephi.org.

Development builds

Development builds are generated regularly. Current version is 0.11.2-SNAPSHOT

• gephi-0.11.2-SNAPSHOT-windows-x64.exe (Windows)

• gephi-0.11.2-SNAPSHOT-macos-x64.dmg (Mac OS X)

• gephi-0.11.2-SNAPSHOT-macos-aarch64.dmg (Mac OS X Silicon)

• gephi-0.11.2-SNAPSHOT-linux-aarch64.tar.gz (Linux aarch64)

• gephi-0.11.2-SNAPSHOT-linux-x64.tar.gz (Linux)

Developer Introduction

Gephi is developed in Java and uses OpenGL for its visualization engine. Built on the top of Netbeans Platform, it follows a loosely-coupled, modular architecture philosophy. Gephi is split into modules, which depend on other modules through well-written APIs. Plugins can reuse existing APIs, create new services and even replace a default implementation with a new one.

Consult the Javadoc for an overview of the APIs.

Requirements

• Java JDK 17 (or later)

• Apache Maven version 3.6.3 or later

Checkout and Build the sources

• Fork the repository and clone

  git clone git@github.com:username/gephi.git
  

• Run the following command or open the project in an IDE

  mvn -T 4 clean install
  

• To skip tests and speed up the build, use the skipTests profile

  mvn -T 4 clean install -P skipTests
  

• Once built, one can test running Gephi

  cd modules/application
  mvn nbm:cluster-app nbm:run-platform
  

Note that while Gephi can be built using JDK 17 or later, it currently requires JDK 17 to run.

Create Plug-ins

Gephi is extensible and lets developers create plug-ins to add new features, or to modify existing features. For example, you can create a new layout algorithm, add a metric, create a filter or a tool, support a new file format or database, or modify the visualization.

• Plugins Portal

• Plugins Quick Start (5 minutes)

• Browse the plugins created by the community

• We've created a Plugins Bootcamp to learn by examples.

Gephi Toolkit

The Gephi Toolkit project packages essential Gephi modules (Graph, Layout, Filters, IO…) in a standard Java library which any Java project can use for getting things done. It can be used on a server or command-line tool to do the same things Gephi does but automatically.

• Download

• GitHub Project

• Toolkit Portal

Localization

We use Weblate for localization. Follow the guidelines on the wiki for more details how to contribute.

Icons

Gephi uses icons from various sources. The icons are licensed under the CC BY 3.0 license.

All icons can be found in the DesktopIcons module, organised by module name.

License

Gephi main source code is distributed under the dual license CDDL 1.0 and GNU General Public License v3. Read the Legal FAQs to learn more.

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