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`.cypher`

1 claimant 0 primary 1 secondary secondary-only

SWH popularity

From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.

27.5K

total occurrences

11.1K

since 2019 (40.4%)

2012–2023

years active

Case variants in archive: .cypher (27.4K), .Cypher (42), .CYPHER (6) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to Cypher — every claim across all sources (including secondary ones) points to a single language.

Authoritative sources: △ Linguist · secondary △ Pygments · secondary ✗ Wikidata · no claim ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (2)

Languages that list .cypher among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.

Language	Source	Strength
Cypher	linguist	secondary
Cypher	pygments	secondary

Wikidata says… (1)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .cypher on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.

Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗

Format	Class (Wikidata `P31`)	Suggested label	MIME	Notes	Action
Cypher query format Q128792169 file format	file format	—	`—`	—	Use as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (2)

Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.

Bank.cypher · 11803 B · seen 60× in SWH

predicted: Cypher via fallback

swh:1:cnt:201723ed34bec1d74aae47e8cea7acbaf03ae7aa;origin=https://github.com/softvis-research/Getaviz;anchor=swh:1:rev:37349a6bbcd55ef314d586b0e2fd471d3ae3df9f;path=/generator2/org.getaviz.generator/src/test/resources/Bank.cypher

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Index_creation_on_COAUTHOR_relation.cypher · 113 B · seen 1× in SWH

predicted: Cypher via fallback

swh:1:cnt:66ba337867b84ec20f7d2fbbe18716002cc2fbde;origin=https://github.com/sftfjugg/DBLP-Neo4j-query-engine;anchor=swh:1:rev:66a8047dc128649504c923d936b553ab0bc67cc3;path=/scripts-cypher/other-scripts/Index_creation_on_COAUTHOR_relation.cypher

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