pymongo - mongodb+srv “dnspython must be installed” error

Question

I am trying to connect MongoDB from Atlas But I encountered:

dnspython must be installed error

My mongo uri (mo

Answer 1

In order to use mongo+srv protocol, you need to install pymongo-srv Launch this command to do it with python 3:

pip3 install pymongo[srv]

or this one for other versions:

pip install pymongo[srv]

And as @lukrebs suggested, for ZSH, add quotes:

pip3 install 'pymongo[srv]'

Answer 2

May be the protocol, your URI should start with:

mongo+srv instead of mongo+src

If it still not working please put a pip list with the versions of PyMongo and dnspython (and version of python that you are using)

Answer 3

In requirements.txt, replace pymongo with pymongo[tls,srv], as mentioned here.

Answer 4

I would like to answer my own questions here. As I mentioned in the comment, the kernel of the jupyter notebook has to be restarted in order for the pymongo to take effect of the loaded dnspython.

Answer 5

you can use mongo:// instead of mongodb+srv://

Answer 6

I solved this problem with:

$ python -m pip install pymongo[srv]