mongoexport

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Produce exports of data stored in a MongoDB instance formatted as JSON or CSV.

Examples (7)

Export a collection to `stdout`, formatted as JSON

mongoexport --uri=connection_string --collection=collection_name

Export the documents in the specified collection that match a query to a JSON file

mongoexport --db=database_name --collection=collection_name --query="query_object" --out=path/to/file.json

Export documents as a JSON array instead of one object per line

mongoexport --collection=collection_name --jsonArray

Export documents to a CSV file

mongoexport --collection=collection_name --type=csv --fields="field1,field2,..." --out=path/to/file.csv

Export documents that match the query in the specified file to a CSV file, omitting the list of field names on the first line

mongoexport --collection=collection_name --type=csv --fields="field1,field2,..." --queryFile=path/to/file --noHeaderLine --out=path/to/file.csv

Export documents to `stdout`, formatted as human-readable JSON

mongoexport --uri=mongodb_uri --collection=collection_name --pretty

Display help

mongoexport --help