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So now we have the connection string for the MongoDB.

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Database, the cloud, MongoDB instance.

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And now we need some way to connect to the MongoDB database.

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And something we can use is what we already imported up here, which is called Mongoose.

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So Mongoose is sort of a JavaScript MongoDB driver, which means it contains a lot of functions that

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you can use to use MongoDB functions such as getting a list of objects or documents and saving models

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and so on, and connecting, of course, rather than doing.

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Ready raw commands inside of MongoDB.

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You have this nice interface to use it.

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Anyway, let's try and connect it and get connected to the MongoDB instance we have.

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So we go in, I go async function and I write connect to.

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M-lab or MongoDB.

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And in.

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Here we go.

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Await Mongoose Connect.

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And then we just copy in.

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This string over here.

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And also you need to use a little option here which says use new URL parser, set it to true.

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And if you don't set it to true, you're going to get a warning about that.

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The old URL parser is being deprecated, so you need to pass in this option here and.

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Okay, so.

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Once that is done, I will make a new async function.

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Call it main.

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And we'll call.

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Connect to.

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MongoDB.

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And then once that is done, we will call this function, which I will call.

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I will rename it to Reddit.

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Scrape Reddit.

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And.

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There we go.

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And then we call Main down here, as we did before.

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And now.

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Let's put a console log underneath the connect here.

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So we say connect it to M-lab.

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And yeah, let's try and run it.

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So I'm just going to comment out the scrape Reddit so we can just see if we actually connect to the

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database.

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So node index.js and we see the connected to lab string or console log here and that means we could

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go further on and get into actually saving models to MongoDB.

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Now.