CouchDB – Get Database List

To get the list of all Databases present in a CouchDB, you can make HTTP GET request through REST API or go to Databases tab in Web Interface of CouchDB.

CouchDB – Get Database List using REST API

Send a HTTP GET request with the following URL.

http://hostname/_all_dbs/

We have our CouchDB running in our localhost. Hence, we shall use 127.0.0.1:5984 as hostname.

The resulting request URL that we have to use for PUT request will become,

http://127.0.0.1:5984/_all_dbs/

We will use Postman, to trigger a GET request with the URL to get list of databases in CouchDB. You can use any other CLI or GUI tool of your choice.

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CouchDB - Get Database List - JSON Array

The result is a JSON array with database names as elements.

Create Document via CouchDB Web Interface

You can also get database list in CouchDB using Web Interface.

Open URL http://hostname/_utils/ in your browser. In this example, the URL will be http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/.

Click on Databases tab present in the left panel. You will get the list of all databases.

CouchDB - Database List

Summary

In this CouchDB Tutorial, we learned to get the list of databases in CouchDB via HTTP REST API and CouchDB Web Interface.