How to mongoimport in a remote server

You can directly use the official mongoimport command, from a shell.

Below a full example :

mongoimport -h localhost:27018 -d developer-database -c developer-collection -u root -p root --authenticationDatabase admin --file data-local.json

You can add the option --jsonArray if you json contains an array.

You can add the option --type csv, if your file is not a json but a csv.

More informations: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/program/mongoimport/#bin.mongoimport

To import a csv file from your local machine to remote server:

mongoimport --host "hostname" --port "port" --db "databasename" --collection "collectionName" --file "filePath" --type csv --headerline

for importing json file

mongoimport --host "hostname" --port "port" --db "databasename" --collection "collectionName" --file "filePath"

--host Specifies hostname (In your case it is the address of your remote server) by default it is localhost.

--port Specifies port on which mongo server is running in your remote server by default it is 27017.

--file Specifies the location and name of a file containing the data to import.

Since your data size is small, I'd recommend using MongoDB Atlas. Create a cluster and mongoimport using the URI which can be found within your cluster (Connect --> Connect Your Application --> Connection String Only).

To mongoimport,

mongoimport --uri "URI" --drop --collection collectionName --file localFileLocation

where you need to specify: 1) "URI" 2) collectionName 3) localFileLocation.

Once the mongoimport works, you can query the cloud data via Mongo shell after fetching the connection string (Connect --> Connect with the Mongo Shell --> Connection String Only)

mongo "connectionString" --username yourUsername

where you need to specify: 1) "connectionString" 2) yourUsername.

Now, type in your password associated with the cluster you created, then you should be connected and ready to query data held in Mongo Atlas from the command line.