Inserting and Querying Date with MongoDB and Nodejs

Question

I need some help finding a record by date in mongodb and nodejs.

I add the date to the json object in a scraping script as follows:

jsonObj.last_upda         


        

Answer 1

To clarify. What is important to know is that:

• Yes, you have to pass a Javascript Date object.
• Yes, it has to be ISODate friendly
• Yes, from my experience getting this to work, you need to manipulate the date to ISO
• Yes, working with dates is generally always a tedious process, and mongo is no exception

Here is a working snippet of code, where we do a little bit of date manipulation to ensure Mongo can handle it correctly. In this example, I am using mongoose module and want results for rows whose date attribute is less than (ie. before) the date given as myDate param.

var inputDate = new Date(myDate.toISOString());
MyModel.find({
    'date': { $lte: inputDate }
})