How to convert bson file to json with javascript with a simple script file. Followup this simple proces
Save the following file into index.js
const fs = require("fs");
const BSON = require("bson");
function BSON2JSON(from) {
const buffer = fs.readFileSync(from);
let index = 0;
const documents = [];
while (buffer.length > index) {
index = BSON.deserializeStream(
buffer,
index,
1,
documents,
documents.length
);
}
return documents;
}
const bsonFilePath = "file.bson";
const bson2json = BSON2JSON(bsonFilePath);
console.log("🚀 ~ file: bson2json:", bson2json);
If you want tot export the bson to a json file add at the end of the file this line of code:
fs.writeFileSync("file.json", JSON.stringify(bson2json));
