Overview

Write new documents into collection.

$ export MONGOCAT_URL='mongodb://<username>:<password>@your-mongo-host'
$ mongocat -W -d tensim graphs
foo: bar                                # enter your object in minified yaml
5ec0a27324ec53bd2464c074                # prints object id on success
foo: baz
5ec0a27a24ec53bd2464c075

Read documents from a collection

$ mongocat -R -d tensim graphs
{'_id': ObjectId('5ec0a27324ec53bd2464c074'), 'foo': 'bar'}
{'_id': ObjectId('5ec0a27a24ec53bd2464c075'), 'foo': 'baz'}

Usage

$ mongocat --help
Usage: mongocat [OPTIONS] COLLECTION

  Read/write to mongodb COLLECTION.

Options:
  -R, --read
  -W, --write
  -p, --parser [json|yaml]
  -u, --url TEXT            MongoDB URI. format:
                            mongodb://[username:password@]host1[:port1]...

  -d, --database TEXT       Database name
  --help                    Show this message and exit.

Combine with the power of unix

Dump running processes to db

$ ps | jc --ps | jq -cM '.[]' | mongocat -WR -d tensim processes
5ec0aeef4814de15eb742155
5ec0aeef4814de15eb742156
5ec0aeef4814de15eb742157
5ec0aeef4814de15eb742158
5ec0aeef4814de15eb742159
{'_id': ObjectId('5ec0aeef4814de15eb742155'), 'pid': 195657, 'tty': 'pts/8', 'time': '00:01:05', 'cmd': 'fish'}
{'_id': ObjectId('5ec0aeef4814de15eb742156'), 'pid': 396223, 'tty': 'pts/8', 'time': '00:00:00', 'cmd': 'ps'}
{'_id': ObjectId('5ec0aeef4814de15eb742157'), 'pid': 396224, 'tty': 'pts/8', 'time': '00:00:00', 'cmd': 'jc'}
{'_id': ObjectId('5ec0aeef4814de15eb742158'), 'pid': 396225, 'tty': 'pts/8', 'time': '00:00:00', 'cmd': 'jq'}
{'_id': ObjectId('5ec0aeef4814de15eb742159'), 'pid': 396226, 'tty': 'pts/8', 'time': '00:00:00', 'cmd': 'mongocat'}

Curl straight into DB

$ curl 'https://api.github.com/repos/DaniloZZZ/mongocat/commits?per_page=5' |\
 jq -cM '.[] | {msg: .commit.message, name: .commit.committer.name}' |\
 mongocat -WR -d tensim commits
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 11145  100 11145    0     0  47628      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 47628
5ec0aa4ac6ddf6dc2bf2def9
5ec0aa4ac6ddf6dc2bf2defa
5ec0aa4ac6ddf6dc2bf2defb
{'_id': ObjectId('5ec0aa4ac6ddf6dc2bf2def9'), 'msg': 'First working version', 'name': 'Danil Lykov'}
{'_id': ObjectId('5ec0aa4ac6ddf6dc2bf2defa'), 'msg': 'upd deps', 'name': 'Danil Lykov'}
{'_id': ObjectId('5ec0aa4ac6ddf6dc2bf2defb'), 'msg': 'init', 'name': 'Danil Lykov'}

Tools used:

• jc: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

• jq: https://github.com/stedolan/jq

TODO

• [ ] Option to suppress print of added document

• [ ] Finding command that filters documents aka mongo grep

• [ ] Deleting documens using ids from stdin. Delete some: mongocat --find 'blah' | mongocat --delete

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

0.1.0 (2020-05-16)

• First release on PyPI.