Proper way to import json file to mongo

Question

I\'ve been trying to use mongo with some data imported, but I\'m not able to use it properly with my document description.

This is an example of the .json I import u

Answer 1

There is a parameter --jsonArray:

Accept import of data expressed with multiple MongoDB document within a single JSON array

Using this option you can feed it an array, so you only need to strip the outer object syntax i.e. everything at the beginning until and including "shops" :, and the } at the end.

Myself I use a little tool called jq that can extract the array from command line:

./jq '.shops' shops.json