mongodb - Can mongorestore take a single url argument instead of separate arguments?

Question

If I have a mongo database URL of the following format

mongodb://someUsername:[email protected]:27017/some_collection

Is there an easy way to give this to mongorestore without having to do

mongorestore -u someUsername -p somePassword -h some.server.com:27017 -db some_collection /path/to/dump

The reason I ask is because meteor mongo --url gives back a url of that form (and it looks like a standardized url format) but it expires in one minute. Because the password and host can be pretty long, it's hit or miss whether I can copy the parameters over (correctly) in one minute, and usually requires several tries.

Does something like the following exist?

mongorestore --url blah_blah /path/to/dump

See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/15865565/586086

Answer 1

I didn't find a way to pass the URL as a parameter but I wrote a one line command that converts the url into mongorestore parameters:

CMD=`meteor mongo -U autocomplete.meteor.com | tail -1 | sed 's_mongodb://([a-z0-9-]*):([a-f0-9-]*)@(.*)/(.*)_mongorestore -u 1 -p 2 -h 3 -d 4_'`
$CMD /path/to/dump