mongokit

A command line toolkit for interacting with MongoDB.

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Install

npm install -g mongokit

Connect your database

There are two options for connecting the mongokit commands to your own database.

CLI option

Use the option --uri and set it to the connection string for your database when running a command.

Example:

--uri mongodb://localhost:27017

Environment variable

Set the environment variable MONGO_URI to the connection string for your database before running commands.

Example:

export MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017

Or on Windows:

set MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017

Run commands

There is a full suite of commands you can run. Here's an example to get a whole collection as JSON data:

mongokit get collection <collection-name>

To see the full list of commands to get and set data:

mongokit --help

Run commands in development

Clone the repo and then install dependencies:

cd mongokit
npm install

Run commands:

npx ts-node src/cli.ts get dbs