How to find names of all collections using PyMongo?

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Damir picture Damir · Mar 21, 2012 · Viewed 90.6k times · Source

How to find names of all collections using PyMongo and find all fields in chosen collection ? I have name of database and name of chosen collection. (Scenario : user input name of database, need to find all collections and show in dropdown list, when user click on one item need to find all fields in that collection)

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Dogbert picture Dogbert · Mar 21, 2012

To find the collections, you can use collection_names() - http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/api/pymongo/database.html#pymongo.database.Database.collection_names

Edit:

The collection_names is deprecated from 3.7 onwards and been replaced by list_collection_names - https://api.mongodb.com/python/current/api/pymongo/database.html#pymongo.database.Database.list_collection_names

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