mongoose-query-random

mongoose-query-random

Pull out random documents from a collection using Mongoose.

Node.js Installation

$ npm install mongoose-query-random

Usage

require('mongoose-query-random');

query.random(count, unique, callback);

To return documents no more than once, set unique to true.

Examples

require('mongoose-query-random');

Cat.find().random(5, true, function(err, cats) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log(cats);
});

Users.find().where('name').equals('Anna').random(1, false, function(err, annas) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log(annas);
});

Performance Note

This module performs as well as mongodb's cursor.skip(), multiplied by the specified count (it needs to skip for each document it pulls out). So very large queries with a large count might take a while to execute.