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This function randomly selects a document from the specified MongoDB collection and returns it. It first connects to the MongoDB database, then retrieves all documents, and randomly selects one to return. If there are no documents, it returns None.
Technology Stack : Motor, MongoDB, asyncio
Code Type : Asynchronous MongoDB database operations
Code Difficulty : Intermediate
def find_random_document(db, collection_name):
from motor.motor_asyncio import AsyncIOMotorClient
from motor.motor_asyncio import AsyncIOMotorCollection
import random
client = AsyncIOMotorClient('localhost', 27017)
collection = client[collection_name]
documents = await collection.find({}).to_list(None)
random_document = random.choice(documents) if documents else None
client.close()
return random_document