How can I use MongoDB with Flask?

Question

How can I connect a Flask application with the MongoDB database?

Answer 1

You can use pymongo to connect to the MongoDB database. You have to first import the MongoClient and then you have to create a connection with the database, refer to the following code:

from pymongo import MongoClient

client = MongoClient()

Then fetch your database instance and collection with the help of the following code:

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db = client.my_database

collection = db.my_collection