---
id: rdflib-jsonld
version: "0.6.2"
license: BSD
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# rdflib-jsonld — rdflib extension adding JSON-LD parser and serializer

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 336.0K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package extends rdflib with JSON-LD format support, allowing you to parse JSON-LD documents into RDF graphs and serialize RDF graphs back to JSON-LD output. It works as an automatically registered plugin that integrates with rdflib's standard parse and serialize methods.

However, this package is archived and deprecated. As of rdflib 6.0.1 (released 2021-09-17), JSON-LD handling has been integrated directly into rdflib itself, making this plugin obsolete. The maintainers have explicitly marked 0.6.2 as a final release and encourage all users to migrate to rdflib 6.0.1 or later. The only exception is if you are constrained to Python 3.6 or earlier, in which case you would need to use release 0.5.0 of this plugin with rdflib 5.0.0.

Use it for:

- Parse JSON-LD documents into RDF graphs for semantic web processing on legacy rdflib versions
- Serialize RDF graphs to JSON-LD format for linked data applications on Python 3.6 environments
- Maintain compatibility with codebases locked to Python 3.6 and rdflib 5.0.0

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides JSON-LD parsing and serialization for RDFLib graphs, converting between JSON-LD formatted documents and RDF graph representations.

No. This package is archived and abandoned. The maintainers explicitly recommend migrating to rdflib 6.0.1 or later, where JSON-LD support is now built-in. Install this only if forced to remain on Python 3.6 or earlier with rdflib 5.0.0; otherwise, upgrade to current rdflib and remove this dependency.

## Install

pip install rdflib-jsonld
uv add rdflib-jsonld
poetry add rdflib-jsonld

## Installing rdflib-jsonld

Before you install: Installation is straightforward with low friction, but the package is abandoned as of 0.6.2 (released 2021-09-18). The maintainers explicitly recommend migrating to rdflib 6.0.1 or later, where JSON-LD handling is now integrated directly.

License in practice: BSD license is permissive, imposing minimal restrictions on use and modification.

Quickstart:

pip install rdflib-jsonld

from rdflib import Graph
g = Graph().parse(data=testrdf, format='n3')
print(g.serialize(format='json-ld', indent=4))

This package is archived; rdflib 6.0.1+ has integrated JSON-LD support and is recommended instead.

Verify before relying:

- Whether rdflib 6.0.1+ is available for your Python version and whether migrating is feasible
- Whether the integrated JSON-LD support in rdflib 6.0.1+ covers all use cases previously handled by this plugin

## Package facts

- License: BSD (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 336.0K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

json-ld rdf parsing, rdflib json-ld serializer, semantic web json format, rdf graph json conversion, linked data json parsing, rdflib plugin json-ld, archived, semantic-web, rdf

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