Some essential functions for connecting to mongodb, adding data to a collection etc. using pymongo.

pymongo_essentials.py

from pymongo import MongoClient


def get_db():
    try:
        connection = MongoClient('localhost', 27019)
        db = connection['db_name']
        collection = db['collection_name']
        return collection, connection
    except Exception as e:
        print(e.__str__())
        return None


def save_document_to_db(document, collection):
    collection.insert_one(document)