How to convert BSON to JSON with human-readable date format

Question

I would like to transform a BSON dump of MongoDB to JSON.

To do that, I\'m using the bsondump tool provided with Mongo, but I get an output like :

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Answer 1

bsondump converts BSON files into human-readable formats, including JSON. For example, bsondump is useful for reading the output files generated by mongodump.

Source: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/program/bsondump

Examples

bsondump --outFile collection.json collection.bson

The --pretty option outputs documents in a pretty-printed format JSON, eg:

bsondump --pretty --outFile collection.json collection.bson