How to export a MySQL database to JSON?

Question

I am interested in exporting a subset of values from a MySQL database into a JSON-formatted file on disk.

I found a link that talks about a possible way to do this:

Answer 1

If you have Ruby, you can install the mysql2xxxx gem (not the mysql2json gem, which is a different gem):

$ gem install mysql2xxxx

and then run the command

$ mysql2json --user=root --password=password --database=database_name --execute "select * from mytable" >mytable.json

The gem also provides mysql2csv and mysql2xml. It's not as fast as mysqldump, but also doesn't suffer from some of mysqldump's weirdnesses (like only being able to dump CSV from the same computer as the MySQL server itself)