How to get the object id in PyMongo after an insert?

Question

I\'m doing a simple insert into Mongo...

db.notes.insert({ title: \"title\", details: \"note details\"})

After the note document is inserte

Answer 1

It's better to use insert_one() or insert_many() instead of insert(). Those two are for the newer version. You can use inserted_id to get the id.

myclient = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017/")
myDB = myclient["myDB"]
userTable = myDB["Users"]
userDict={"name": "tyler"}

_id = userTable.insert_one(userDict).inserted_id
print(_id)

Or

result = userTable.insert_one(userDict)
print(result.inserted_id)
print(result.acknowledged)

If you need to use insert(), you should write like the lines below

_id = userTable.insert(userDict)
print(_id)