Prerequisites: MongoDB Python Basics

This article is about converting the PyMongo Cursor to JSON. Functions like find() and find_one() returns the Cursor instance.

Let’s begin:

1. Importing Required Modules: Import the required module using the command:

   from pymongo import MongoClient
   from bson.json_util import dumps

   If MongoDB is already not installed on your machine you can refer to the guide: Guide to Install MongoDB with Python

2. Creating a Connection: Now we had already imported the module, its time to establish a connection to the MongoDB server, presumably which is running on localhost (host name) at port 27017 (port number).

   client = MongoClient(‘localhost’, 27017)

3. Accessing the Database: Since the connection to the MongoDB server is established. We can now create or use the existing database.

   mydatabase = client.name_of_the_database

4. Accessing the Collection: We now select the collection from the database using the following syntax:

   collection_name = mydatabase.name_of_collection

5. Getting the documents: Getting all the documents from the collection using find() method. It returns the instance of the Cursor.

   cursor = collection_name.find()
   

6. Converting the Cursor to JSON: Converting the Cursor to the JSON.
   First, we will convert the Cursor to the list of dictionary.

   list_cur = list(cursor)

   Now, converting the list_cur to the JSON using the method dumps() from bson.json_util

   
   
   
   

   json_data = dumps(list_cur)
   

   You can now save it to the file or can use it in the program using loads() function.

Below is the implementation.

Output:

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