MongoDB: Python

Accessing MongoDB via Python

These instructions assume that you have already created a MongoDB instance somewhere.

You might have followed these three steps, for example:

MongoDB: MLab to:
- Sign up for an mlab.com account
- Set up a so-called “new private environment”
MongoDB: MLab Database Creation to set up a database
MongoDB: MLab Database Users and Collections to
- set up a database user/password
- set up at least one collection

If you did so, you’ll be able to look up the MongoDB URI, something such as:

mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds050559.mlab.com:50559/corgis

The pieces of this are as follows:

hostname	port	database name
`ds050559.mlab.com`	`50559`	`corgis`

The dbuser and dbpassword are whatever you set them to when you created the database user (they are NOT your mlab.com username and password.)

With this, you are ready to start coding.

Python access via MongoDB

Here are some useful links: