Read-only mode for a pymongo.MongoClient connection to MongoDB

Question

For a project , I'm currently running a local MongoDB instance without authentication.

I connect to the database in python using pymongo. For most use cases, I'll only want to run read queries. I'd like to specify a read-only pymongo.MongoClient connection, so I can avoid accidental write operations, which could mess up the database.

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There is an existing related question that is in the context of replicas. In my case, there is a single node running in Docker. I also looked through the read preference docs .

Answer 1

The only way to prevent accidentally modifying your MongoDB data is by enabling authentication. PyMongo and other drivers do not have a feature that can accomplish this goal.