diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 489346c..30f2a5b 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ attrs>=17.4  # to fix pytest compatibility on python 3.6
 pylint
 pytest>=4.6
 pytest-cov
+networkx>=1.9
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9314602..f0246f3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ def readme():
         # eg:
         #   'rst': ['docutils>=0.11'],
         #   ':python_version=="2.6"': ['argparse'],
+        'networkx>=1.9'
     },
     entry_points={
         'console_scripts': [
diff --git a/src/snkit/network.py b/src/snkit/network.py
index 2672f76..6c66e77 100644
--- a/src/snkit/network.py
+++ b/src/snkit/network.py
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pandas
 import shapely.errors
+try:
+    import networkx as nx
+    USE_NX = True
+except ImportError:
+    USE_NX = False
 
 from geopandas import GeoDataFrame
 from shapely.geometry import Point, MultiPoint, LineString, GeometryCollection, shape, mapping
@@ -603,3 +608,60 @@ def set_precision(geom, precision):
     geom_mapping = mapping(geom)
     geom_mapping['coordinates'] = np.round(np.array(geom_mapping['coordinates']), precision)
     return shape(geom_mapping)
+
+
+def to_networkx(network,directed=False,weight_col=None):
+    """Return a networkx graph
+    """
+    if not USE_NX:
+        raise ImportError('No module named networkx')
+    else:
+        # init graph
+        if not directed:
+            G = nx.Graph()
+        else:
+            G = nx.MultiDiGraph()
+        # get nodes from network data
+        G.add_nodes_from(network.nodes.id.to_list())
+        # add nodal positions from geom
+        network.nodes['pos'] = list(zip(network.nodes.geometry.x, network.nodes.geometry.y))
+        pos = network.nodes.set_index('id').to_dict()['pos']
+        for n,p in pos.items():
+            G.nodes[n]['pos'] = p
+        # get edges from network data
+        if weight_col is None:
+            network.edges['weight'] = network.edges.geometry.length
+            edges_as_list = list(zip(network.edges.from_id,network.edges.to_id,network.edges.weight))
+        else:
+            edges_as_list = list(zip(network.edges.from_id,network.edges.to_id,network.edges[weight_col]))
+        # add edges to graph
+        G.add_weighted_edges_from(edges_as_list)
+        return G
+
+
+def get_connected_components(network):
+    """Get connected components within network and id to each individual graph
+    """
+    if not USE_NX:
+        raise ImportError('No module named networkx')
+    else:
+        G = to_networkx(network)
+        return sorted(nx.connected_components(G), key = len, reverse=True)
+
+
+def add_component_ids(network,id_col='component_id'):
+    """Add column of component IDs to network data
+    """
+    # get connected components
+    connected_parts = get_connected_components(network)
+    # add unique id to each graph
+    network.edges[id_col] = 0 # init id_col
+    network.nodes[id_col] = 0 # init id_col
+    for count, part in enumerate(connected_parts):
+        # edges
+        network.edges.loc[ (network.edges.from_id.isin(list(part))) | \
+                           (network.edges.to_id.isin(list(part))), id_col ] = count + 1
+        # nodes
+        network.nodes.loc[ (network.nodes.id.isin(list(part))), id_col] = count + 1 
+    # return
+    return network
diff --git a/tests/test_init.py b/tests/test_init.py
index c6f594a..a0045a5 100644
--- a/tests/test_init.py
+++ b/tests/test_init.py
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@
 from pytest import fixture
 from shapely.geometry import Point, LineString, MultiPoint
 
+try:
+    import networkx as nx
+    from networkx.utils.misc import graphs_equal
+    USE_NX = True
+except ImportError:
+    USE_NX = False
+
 import snkit
 import snkit.network
 
@@ -346,3 +353,18 @@ def test_passing_slice():
 
     print(actual)
     assert_frame_equal(actual, expected)
+
+
+def test_to_networkx(connected):
+    '''test to networkx
+    '''
+    connected.nodes['id'] = ['n'+str(i) for i in connected.nodes.index]
+    connected = snkit.network.add_topology(connected)
+    G = snkit.network.to_networkx(connected)
+    
+    G_true = nx.Graph()
+    G_true.add_node('n0',pos=(0, 0))
+    G_true.add_node('n1',pos=(0, 2))
+    G_true.add_edge('n0', 'n1', weight=2)
+    
+    assert graphs_equal(G, G_true)
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