how do i transfer live twitter steam to mongo db in python

Question

I need to make an app that will live stream tweets from twitter api to one of two things. I can either have them save to a file then from the file save them to my mongo db database, or I can have it go from the stream directly to the database.

Right now the program will save it to a file and print it in the terminal but I can not figure out where I would do the transfer. if i put the insert one in the on_status it just jumps out as soon as it hits that line and if i put it in the main area, it never does it.

from tweepy import Stream

from tweepy import OAuthHandler

import tweepy

import json

import pymongo

#tokens and access

access_token = ''

access_token_secret = ''

API_KEY = ''

API_KEY_secret = ''


#make connection to database

connection = pymongo.MongoClient('localhost', 27017)

#create the database and collection

database = connection.twitter_db

collection = database.tweets.create_index([("id", pymongo.ASCENDING)], unique=True,)

class MyListener (tweepy.Stream):

    def on_status(self, status):

        json_str=json.dumps(status._json)

        print(json_str)

        try:

            with open("UkraineTweets.json","a") as file:

                file.write(json_str + "\n")

                print("written to the file")

                #collection.insert_one(data)
     
           #print("entered into mongo_db")
     
           return True

        except:

            pass

            return False

if __name__ == "__main__":
    
    authentication = tweepy.OAuthHandler(API_KEY,API_KEY_secret)

    authentication.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

    api = tweepy.API(authentication)

    stream = MyListener(API_KEY, API_KEY_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)

    stream.filter(track=['Russia', 'Ukraine', 'war', 'Putin', '#StandWithUkraine' ,'#StopPutinNOW'], languages=['en'])''''