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Mongoimport Utility

In this article, we will discuss the mongoimport utility.

Purpose

Mongoimport is a command-line tool provided by MongoDB for importing data in various formats (e.g., JSON, CSV, TSV) to a MongoDB database.

Syntax

mongoimport --host [host] --port 27017 --db [database name] --collection [collection name] --file [json file] --jsonArray

Sample JSON

For this example, we will use the following JSON.

[
  {"subject": "MongoDB Basics"},
  {"subject": "Data Modeling in MongoDB"},
  {"subject": "Indexing and Query Optimization"},
  {"subject": "Aggregation Framework"},
  {"subject": "MongoDB Atlas Overview"},
  {"subject": "Replication and Sharding"}
]

Save the file as subject.json.

Example

Go to the following path – C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Tools\100\bin and execute the following command: -

mongoimport --host localhost --port 27017 --db test --collection Articles --file C:/mongo/subject.json --jsonArray

Picture showing the execution of the mongoimport command

Output

Once the mongoimport utility is executed the data is inserted into the collection.

Picture showing the data is imported in the collection

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Friday, December 8, 2023

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