MongoDB

Ingest your files into Unstructured from MongoDB.

The requirements are as follows.

The MongoDB requirements for a MongoDB Atlas deployment include:

• A MongoDB Atlas account. Create an account.

• A MongoDB Atlas cluster. Create a cluster.

• The cluster must be reachable from your application environment. Learn how.

• The cluster must be configured to allow IP address. Learn how.

  To get Unstructured’s IP address ranges, go to https://assets.p6m.u10d.net/publicitems/ip-prefixes.json and allow all of the ip_prefix fields’ values that are listed.

  These IP address ranges are subject to change. You can always find the latest ones in the preceding file.

• The cluster must have at least one database. Create a database.

• The database must have at least one user, and that user must have sufficient access to the database. Create a database user. Give the user database access.

• The database must have at least one collection. Create a collection.

  For the destination connector, Unstructured recommends that all documents in the target collection have a field named record_id with a String data type. Unstructured can use this field to do intelligent document overwrites. Without this field, duplicate documents might be written to the collection or, in some cases, the operation could fail altogether.

• The connection string for the cluster. For MongoDB Atlas, this connection string must include the protocol, username, password, host, and cluster name. For example:

  mongodb+srv://<db_user>:<db_password>@<host>/?retryWrites=true&w=majority&appName=<cluster>
  

  To get the connection string in MongoDB Atlas, do the following:

  1. Log in to your MongoDB Atlas console.

  2. In the sidebar, under Databases, click Clusters.

  3. Click on the cluster you want to connect to.

  4. Click Connect, or click the Cmd Line Tools tab and then click Connect Instructions.

  5. Click Drivers.

  6. Under Add your connection string into your application code, copy the connection string. You can then close the Connect dialog in MongoDB Atlas.

     Before you use this connection string, be sure to fill in any placeholders in the string, such as your MongoDB Atlas database user’s password value.

  Learn more.

To create or change a MongoDB source connector, see the following examples.

Replace the preceding placeholders as follows:

• <name> (required) - A unique name for this connector.
• <database> (required) - The name of the database on the target MongoDB instance.
• <collection> (required) - The name of the collection within the database.
• <uri> (required) - The instance connection string.

To change a connector, replace <connector-id> with the source connector’s unique ID. To get this ID, see List source connectors.