Well, you have the answer right in front of you: The FTP.retrbinary method accepts as second parameter a reference to a function that is called whenever file content is retrieved from the FTP connection. Here is a simple example: #!/usr/bin/env python from ftplib import FTP def writeFunc(s): print “Read: ” + s ftp = FTP(‘ftp.kernel.org’) … Read more
I’ve managed to crack this, so now posting the relevant bit of code for future visitors: filenames = ftp.nlst() # get filenames within the directory print filenames for filename in filenames: local_filename = os.path.join(‘C:\\test\\’, filename) file = open(local_filename, ‘wb’) ftp.retrbinary(‘RETR ‘+ filename, file.write) file.close() ftp.quit() # This is the “polite” way to close a connection … Read more
There’s no better way (with FTP protocol in general, not just with ftplib). The MLST/MLSD is the only correct and reliable way. If you cannot use MLST/MLSD, trying CWD is the next best option. Trying to parse LIST is a fallback option. But you need to know that the server uses listing format your program … Read more
Status: Server sent passive reply with unroutable address The above means that the FTP server is misconfigured. It sends its internal network IP to outside network (to the client – FileZilla or Python ftplib), where it is invalid. FileZilla can detect that and automatically fall back to the original IP address of the server. Python … Read more
MLST or MDTM While you can retrieve a timestamp of an individual file over FTP with MLST or MDTM commands, neither is supported by ftplib. Of course you can implement the MLST or MDTM on your own using FTP.voidcmd. For details, refer to RFC 3659, particularly the: 3. File Modification Time (MDTM) 7. Listings for … Read more
this should do the trick 🙂 import sys import ftplib import os from ftplib import FTP ftp=FTP(“ftp address”) ftp.login(“user”,”password”) def downloadFiles(path,destination): #path & destination are str of the form “/dir/folder/something/” #path should be the abs path to the root FOLDER of the file tree to download try: ftp.cwd(path) #clone path to destination os.chdir(destination) os.mkdir(destination[0:len(destination)-1]+path) print … Read more
Extending the solutions that have been proposed so far, the issue is that implicit FTPS connections need the socket to be ssl wrapped automatically, before we get a chance to call login(). A lot of the subclasses that people are proposing do this in the context of the connect method, we can more generally manage … Read more
For those looking for a full solution for finding the latest file in a folder: MLSD If your FTP server supports MLSD command, a solution is easy: entries = list(ftp.mlsd()) entries.sort(key = lambda entry: entry[1][‘modify’], reverse = True) latest_name = entries[0][0] print(latest_name) LIST If you need to rely on an obsolete LIST command, you have … Read more