Apoc.text.urlencode seems to be adding extra % characters to URL for Wikidata

[cobyyohacofa]

I am trying to follow the tutorial here: Neo4j: Enriching an existing graph by querying the Wikidata SPARQL API · Mark Needham (markhneedham....

When I get to the apoc.load.jsonParams section (right after Table 2), I get the following error:

Failed to invoke procedure apoc.load.jsonParams: Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't read url or key https://query.wikidata.org/sparql?query=SELECT+*%250AWHERE+%257B+%253Fperson+wdt%253AP106+wd%253AQ10833314+%253B%250A++++++++++++++++rdfs%253Alabel+%2522Nick+Kyrgios%2522%2540en+%253B%250A++++++++++++++++wdt%253AP569+%253FdateOfBirth+%253B%250A++++++++++++++++wdt%253AP27+%255B+rdfs%253Alabel+%253FcountryName+%255D+.%250A+++++++filter%2528lang%2528%253FcountryName%2529+%253D+%2522en%2522%2529%250A%257D as json: Server returned HTTP response code: 400 for URL: https://query.wikidata.org/sparql?query=SELECT+*%250AWHERE+%257B+%253Fperson+wdt%253AP106+wd%253AQ10833314+%253B%250A++++++++++++++++rdfs%253Alabel+%2522Nick+Kyrgios%2522%2540en+%253B%250A++++++++++++++++wdt%253AP569+%253FdateOfBirth+%253B%250A++++++++++++++++wdt%253AP27+%255B+rdfs%253Alabel+%253FcountryName+%255D+.%250A+++++++filter%2528lang%2528%253FcountryName%2529+%253D+%2522en%2522%2529%250A%257D

It seems like extra "25"s (% sign used in the HTML encoding) are getting inserted into the URL when it gets sent to Wikidata. I have tried cleaning the string using the replace() function but that doesn't work.

When I manually remove the "25"s and paste the URL in my browser, it is able to communicate with Wikidata just fine. Does anyone know how I can encode the URL without the extra "25"s

• Neo4j 4.2.7, Windows 10, Chrome

[michael_hunger]

Can you please create a GH issue for APOC for this, thank you!

[michael_hunger]

Hmm works for me

WITH "SELECT *
WHERE { ?person wdt:P106 wd:Q10833314 ;
                rdfs:label \"" + "Nick Kyrgios" + "\"@en ;
                wdt:P569 ?dateOfBirth ;
                wdt:P27 [ rdfs:label ?countryName ] .
       filter(lang(?countryName) = \"en\")
}" AS sparql
CALL apoc.load.jsonParams(
  "https://query.wikidata.org/sparql?query=" + apoc.text.urlencode(sparql),
  { Accept: "application/sparql-results+json"},
  null
)
YIELD value
RETURN value

[ali_hur57]

Hi Micheal,

I am having the same issue as reported by cobyyohacofa.

The query you just shared here is not working and giving me the same exception. I am using the latest version of neo4j, i.e., 4.3.4 with all the dependencies installed.
I encountered this issues while following this article: Making Sense of News, the Knowledge Graph Way

[michael_hunger]

Try to use single quotes around your string so you don't need to escape the double quotes.
We're just using a library function that we expose through apoc.

URL encoding adds "%xx" transcriptons for all invalid characters in an URL parameter.

%25 is acutally the percent sign which needs to be escaped.

Looks kinda like double encoding. What happens if you don't URLencode that string?

[ali_hur57]

Hi Micheal,

Thanks for your reply!

After following your suggestion, my query now looks as follow:

MATCH (e:Entity)
// Prepare a SparQL query
WITH 'SELECT *
      WHERE{
        ?item rdfs:label ?name .
        filter (?item = wd:' + e.wikiDataItemId + ')
        filter (lang(?name) = "en" ) .
      OPTIONAL{
        ?item wdt:P31 [rdfs:label ?class] .
        filter (lang(?class)="en")
      }}' AS sparql, e
// make a request to Wikidata
CALL apoc.load.jsonParams(
      'https://query.wikidata.org/sparql?query=' + 
    apoc.text.urlencode(sparql),
     { Accept: 'application/sparql-results+json'}, null)
YIELD value
UNWIND value['results']['bindings'] as row
FOREACH(ignoreme in case when row['class'] is not null then [1] else [] end | 
        MERGE (c:Class{name:row['class']['value']})
        MERGE (e)-[:INSTANCE_OF]->(c));

But it does not work either.

Failed to invoke procedure `apoc.load.jsonParams`: Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't read url or key https://query.wikidata.org/sparql?query=SELECT+*%250D%250A++++++WHERE%257B%250D%250A++++++++%253Fitem+rdfs%253Alabel+%253Fname+.%250D%250A++++++++filter+%2528%253Fitem+%253D+wd%253AQ267298%2529%250D%250A++++++++filter+%2528lang%2528%253Fname%2529+%253D+%2522en%2522+%2529+.%250D%250A++++++OPTIONAL%257B%250D%250A++++++++%253Fitem+wdt%253AP31+%255Brdfs%253Alabel+%253Fclass%255D+.%250D%250A++++++++filter+%2528lang%2528%253Fclass%2529%253D%2522en%2522%2529%250D%250A++++++%257D%257D as json: Server returned HTTP response code: 400 for URL: https://query.wikidata.org/sparql?query=SELECT+*%250D%250A++++++WHERE%257B%250D%250A++++++++%253Fitem+rdfs%253Alabel+%253Fname+.%250D%250A++++++++filter+%2528%253Fitem+%253D+wd%253AQ267298%2529%250D%250A++++++++filter+%2528lang%2528%253Fname%2529+%253D+%2522en%2522+%2529+.%250D%250A++++++OPTIONAL%257B%250D%250A++++++++%253Fitem+wdt%253AP31+%255Brdfs%253Alabel+%253Fclass%255D+.%250D%250A++++++++filter+%2528lang%2528%253Fclass%2529%253D%2522en%2522%2529%250D%250A++++++%257D%257D

When I don't use apoc.text.urlencode then It give me the following ERROR:

Blockquote
Failed to invoke procedure apoc.load.jsonParams: Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 52: https://query.wikidata.org/sparql%3Fquery=SELECT%20*
%20%20%20%20%20%20WHERE%7B
%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs:label%20%3Fname%20.
%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20filter%20(%3Fitem%20=%20wd:Q267298)
%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20filter%20(lang(%3Fname)%20=%20%22en%22%20)%20.
%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B
%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt:P31%20%5Brdfs:label%20%3Fclass%5D%20.
%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20filter%20(lang(%3Fclass)=%22en%22)
%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%7D

I am using neo4j version 4.3.4; APOC version 4.3.0.2.

Is there any issue to my configuration setup?