I've been looking around for a module which allows me to do SSH / SFTP functions in python without using POPEN to do it manually. Is there anything like this? I haven't found any real information on this, thanks!
To download a remote file from the server using pysftp, we have to open a connection and from the sftp instance and use the get method that expects the path of a remote file that will be downloaded, and the second argument as a local path where the file should be stored.
from paramiko import Transport, SFTPClient, RSAKey key = RSAKey(filename='path_to_my_rsakey') con = Transport('remote_host_name_or_ip', 22) con. connect(None,username='my_username', pkey=key) sftp = SFTPClient. from_transport(con) sftp. listdir(path='.
SFTP, abbreviated for SSH File Transfer Protocol and known as Secure File Transfer Protocol, is a network protocol that allows us to access files, transfer them and manage them over any dependable data stream.
You're probably looking for the excellent paramiko library:
http://www.paramiko.org/
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