How to display node attributes on a networkx graph visualized with pyvis?

Question

I would like to display node attributes when visualized with pyvis.

import networkx
import obonet

G = obonet.read_obo('https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/chebi/ontology/chebi_core.obo')

# Create smaller subgraph
H = nx.ego_graph(G, 'CHEBI:36464', 15)

H.nodes['CHEBI:24669']
>>> {'name': 'p-block molecular entity', 'subset': ['3_STAR'], 'def': '"Amain group molecular entity that contains one or more atoms of a p-block element." []', 'is_a': ['CHEBI:33579'], 'relationship': ['has_part CHEBI:33560']}

This is the data that I would like to show. For example name.

Then I plot the graph using pyvis:

from pyvis.network import Network

nt = Network('1500px', '1500px', notebook=True)
nt.from_nx(H)
nt.show('H.html')

And this is how the graph looks:

As you can see only the node labels are shown.

Pyviz Interactive configuration tutorial : https://pyvis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ — JimmyNJ, Jan 17 '23 at 20:20
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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '23 at 22:13

In order to get your node attribute displayed with the node labels, you can create a new 'label' key in your node dictionary and pass it the value of the attribute. See code below with the lite version of the dataset you provided:

import networkx as nx
import obonet
from pyvis.network import Network

G = obonet.read_obo('https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/chebi/ontology/chebi_lite.obo')

# Create smaller subgraph
H = nx.ego_graph(G, 'CHEBI:36464', 15)

for n in H.nodes(data=True):
  n[1]['label']=n[0]+' '+n[1]['name'] #concatenate label of the node with its attribute

nt = Network('1500px', '1500px', notebook=True)
nt.from_nx(H)
nt.show('network.html')

And the output gives:

If instead, you'd like to visualize the node attribute by hoovering over the node, you can use:

import networkx as nx
import obonet
from pyvis.network import Network

G = obonet.read_obo('https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/chebi/ontology/chebi_lite.obo')

# Create smaller subgraph
H = nx.ego_graph(G, 'CHEBI:36464', 15)

for n in H.nodes(data=True):
  n[1]['title']=n[1]['name'] #add hoovering to graph


nt = Network('1500px', '1500px', notebook=True)
nt.from_nx(H)
nt.show('network.html')

How to display node attributes on a networkx graph visualized with pyvis?

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