libmongoc - API
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A Cross Platform MongoDB Client Library for C

This site documents the API. For tutorials, guides, and explainers, see `MongoDB C Driver <mongodb_docs_cdriver_>`_.

Introduction
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The MongoDB C Driver, also known as "libmongoc", is a library for using MongoDB from C applications, and for writing MongoDB drivers in higher-level languages.

It depends on :doc:`libbson <bson:index>` to generate and parse BSON documents, the native data format of MongoDB.


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   api
   application-performance-monitoring

