How to Get All Documents Using Find() Method in Python

In this example we will show how to get all documents in the collection using the find() method in Python MongoDB.

Source Code

from pymongo import MongoClient

client = MongoClient("localhost", 27017)
db = client["mydatabase"]
collection = db["us_state"]

for x in collection.find():
    print(x)

Output:

{'_id': 1, 'State_name': 'Alabama', 'Abbreviation': 'AL', 'Capital': 'Montgomery', 'Total_area': 52420}
{'_id': 2, 'State_name': 'Alaska', 'Abbreviation': 'AK', 'Capital': 'Juneau', 'Total_area': 665384}
{'_id': 3, 'State_name': 'Arizona', 'Abbreviation': 'AZ', 'Capital': 'Phoenix', 'Total_area': 113990}
{'_id': 4, 'State_name': 'Arkansas', 'Abbreviation': 'AR', 'Capital': 'Little Rock', 'Total_area': 53179}
{'_id': 5, 'State_name': 'California', 'Abbreviation': 'CA', 'Capital': 'Sacramento', 'Total_area': 163695}
{'_id': 6, 'State_name': 'Colorado', 'Abbreviation': 'CO', 'Capital': 'Denver', 'Total_area': 104094}
{'_id': 7, 'State_name': 'Connecticut', 'Abbreviation': 'CT', 'Capital': 'Hartford', 'Total_area': 5543}
{'_id': 8, 'State_name': 'Delaware', 'Abbreviation': 'DE', 'Capital': 'Dover', 'Total_area': 2489}
{'_id': 9, 'State_name': 'Florida', 'Abbreviation': 'FL', 'Capital': 'Tallahassee', 'Total_area': 65758}
{'_id': 10, 'State_name': 'Georgia', 'Abbreviation': 'GA', 'Capital': 'Atlanta', 'Total_area': 59425}