Python Script Uploading files via FTP

Question

I would like to make a script to upload a file to FTP.

How would the login system work? I'm looking for something like this:

ftp.login=(mylogin) ftp.pass=(mypass) 

And any other sign in credentials.

Answer 1

Use ftplib, you can write it like this:

import ftplib session = ftplib.FTP('server.address.com','USERNAME','PASSWORD') file = open('kitten.jpg','rb')                  # file to send session.storbinary('STOR kitten.jpg', file)     # send the file file.close()                                    # close file and FTP session.quit() 

Use ftplib.FTP_TLS instead if you FTP host requires TLS.

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To retrieve it, you can use urllib.retrieve:

import urllib   urllib.urlretrieve('ftp://server/path/to/file', 'file') 

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EDIT:

To find out the current directory, use FTP.pwd():

FTP.pwd(): Return the pathname of the current directory on the server.

To change the directory, use FTP.cwd(pathname):

FTP.cwd(pathname): Set the current directory on the server.

Answer 2

ftplib now supports context managers so I guess it can be made even easier

from ftplib import FTP from pathlib import Path  file_path = Path('kitten.jpg')  with FTP('server.address.com', 'USER', 'PWD') as ftp, open(file_path, 'rb') as file:         ftp.storbinary(f'STOR {file_path.name}', file) 

No need to close the file or the session