CreateMongoDB.md

How to create a MongoDB URL in 10min ?

1. Go to MongoDB website
   (skip steps 2 and 3 if you already have an account, just create a new cluster)
2. On the account setup page, choose wisely your Organization name and Project name (you can't change that). Select Python as preferred language
3. Choose Create a cluster on the Shared Clusters category (the free one)
4. Choose Azure as provider and Netherlands as region, then click on Create Cluster (it takes 1-5 minutes, but don't close the window !)
5. When it's done, click on Network Access on left panel
   1. Add IP Address
   2. Allow access from anywhere (because Heroku IP addresses changes everytime)
   3. Confirm (it can take up to 2 minutes)
6. Click on Clusters on left panel
   1. Connect
   2. Create a Database User (remember the credentials you choose !)
   3. Choose a connection method
   4. Connect with your application
   5. Choose Python as Driver
   6. Choose 3.6 or later as Version
   7. Copy the URL
7. Replace <password> with the one you chosen at step 5.ii

You're done 🥳

Now use that as MONGODB_URL

Note

It should look like : mongodb+srv://username:[email protected]/?retryWrites=true&w=majority
You can strip the DB name here, it's set on the MONGODB_DBNAME env var