Python MongoDB Tutorial: Getting Started with MongoDB in Python

Hi everyone, welcome back. Python is a popular programming language that is widely used due to it’s many neat capabilities and features that can benefit a variety of different types of projects. MongoDB is also another popular choice for a document based database. MongoDB provides developers with more flexibility compared to relational databases. So we will go over how we can get started with MongoDB in Python in this article. With this introduction out of the way, let’s get into it.

Installations

First, we need to make sure we have two things installed. One is MongoDB itself and the other is PyMongo which is the driver that Python will use to interact with MongoDB.

A link to a local MongoDB instance can be found here. Or feel free to download and mess with other versions as you please.

PyMongo can be installed by using PIP or alternatively as a plugin through an IDE. The following command can be used to install PyMongo through PIP:

python -m pip install pymongo

How can we test if everything is installed and set up correctly?

Create a Python file and attempt to import PyMongo:

import pymongo