RUDOF(1)

✨ RUDOF(1) — the rudof query page, bestie edition ✨

okay so. this is the manual for rudof query, aka the part of rudof that actually runs your SPARQL queries 💅 it lives in the User Commands section of the rudof manual, and yes we're doing the whole thing, every single flag, no skipping, we don't do that here 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

rudof query — Run SPARQL queries

like. that's the whole vibe. you give it a query, it runs the query. iconic behavior honestly.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

rudof query [OPTIONS] --query <INPUT> [DATA]...

so it's query, then some [OPTIONS], then a required --query <INPUT> (slay, no skipping that one), and then zero or more [DATA]... things at the end 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Run SPARQL queries 🎀

that's it. that's the description. short, sweet, does exactly what it says on the tin.

🌈 Arguments: 🌈

• [DATA]... — the optional data inputs, they go at the very end, after the options 🍓

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

one bullet per flag, all of them, here we go, buckle up 💜

• -t, --data-format <FORMAT> — the RDF data format 🦋 default is turtle, and the possible values are: turtle, ntriples, rdfxml, trig, n3, nquads, jsonld, pg
• -b, --base <IRI> — the base IRI, which is what gets used to resolve relative IRIs inside your RDF data 🌸
• --query-type <TYPE> — the query type, so like SELECT, ASK, CONSTRUCT or DESCRIBE ✨ default is select, possible values are: select, construct, ask, describe
• --reader-mode <MODE> — the RDF reader mode 💅 default is strict, possible values are: lax, strict
• -q, --query <INPUT> — the SPARQL query itself, the main character fr fr 👑
• -r, --result-format <FORMAT> — the result query format 🌈 default is internal, possible values are: internal, turtle, ntriples, jsonld, json, rdfxml, csv, markdown, asciitable, trig, n3, nquads
• -c, --config-file <FILE> — config file name 🎀
• -o, --output-file <FILE> — output file name, and heads up, the default is the terminal 🖥️
• --force-overwrite — forces the write to the output file when it already exists, so it'll just steamroll right over it 💀
• --backend <BACKEND> — choose which RDF data backend to load the input into 🧚 here are the options:
  • memory (this is the default): parse into an in-process oxrdf::Graph.
  • qlever: launch a local QLever Docker container and index the input on disk. Requires the binary to be built with the qlever feature.
  • endpoint=<URL_OR_NAME>: query an external SPARQL endpoint by URL, or by the name of an endpoint registered in the TOML config. See also the --endpoint / -e shortcut.
• -e, --endpoint <URL_OR_NAME> — shortcut for --backend endpoint=<URL_OR_NAME> 🫶 it accepts either a full SPARQL endpoint URL, or the name of an endpoint registered in the TOML config. Mutually exclusive with --backend, so pick one, not both, no cap 🚫
• -h, --help — prints the help (and if you use -h you get a summary version of it) 💖

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ngl the -e / --backend mutual exclusivity is the real yikes moment here — they literally cannot be together. one of them. that's the rule. 🙈

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that's the whole page bestie, every flag accounted for, nothing dropped, we ate and left no crumbs 👑

this tea was served from rudof query 0.3.8+ds, dated August 2026 — mwah, love u, go run some queries 💖✨🎀🦋