How to make mongodump export JSON instead of BSON

mongodump exports your MongoDB database to a BSON format, but if you want to use JSON instead, you need to use the mongoexport tool.

Examples:

mongoexport -d mydatabase -c mycollection # Prints to stdout
mongoexport -d mydatabase -c mycollection -o mycollections.json # Write to mycollections.json

Note that some datatypes that can be stored in MongoDB can only be represented in BSON - so in some cases, information may be lost by exporting to JSON.