# $bsonSize
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New from version 8.0.1.

The `$bsonSize` operator in Amazon DocumentDB returns the size in bytes of a document when encoded as BSON.

**Parameters**
+ `expression`: An expression that resolves to a document or object.

## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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The following example shows how to use the `$bsonSize` operator to return the BSON size of each document.

**Create sample documents**

```
db.items.insertMany([
  {_id: 1, name: "a", tags: ["x"]},
  {_id: 2, name: "ab", tags: ["x", "y", "z"]},
  {_id: 3, name: "abc", tags: []}
]);
```

**Query example**

```
db.items.aggregate([
  { $project: { docSize: { $bsonSize: "$$ROOT" } } }
]);
```

**Output**

```
[
  {_id: 1, docSize: 46},
  {_id: 2, docSize: 65},
  {_id: 3, docSize: 39}
]
```

**Note**  
Exact sizes depend on BSON encoding of the document fields.

## Code examples
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To view a code example for using the `$bsonSize` operator, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:

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#### [ Node.js ]

```
const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function example() {
  const client = new MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
  try {
    await client.connect();
    const db = client.db('test');
    const collection = db.collection('items');
    const result = await collection.aggregate([
      { $project: { docSize: { $bsonSize: "$$ROOT" } } }
    ]).toArray();
    console.log(result);
  } finally {
    await client.close();
  }
}
example();
```

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#### [ Python ]

```
from pymongo import MongoClient

def example():
    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
    try:
        db = client['test']
        collection = db['items']
        result = list(collection.aggregate([
            {'$project': {'docSize': {'$bsonSize': '$$ROOT'}}}
        ]))
        print(result)
    finally:
        client.close()

example()
```

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