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pyftpclient
Advanced tools
pyftpclient is a library that is made to make work with FTP/SFTP simple. it has the common functions that you would use when working with a regular file system, like open a file listdir, and glob, delete file or directory. It also has funcitons to simple download/upload of the files and directories from/to remote drive. The library takes care about opening and closing the sessions, so you don't have to worry about it
SFTPClient example
from pyftpclient.sftp_client import SFTPClient
connection_config = {
'hostname': '127.0.0.1',
'username': 'viewonly',
'password': 'viewonly'
}
with SFTPClient(**connection_config) as sftp:
print(sftp.listdir('/')
sftp.download_file('/home/src_file'), '~/dst_file')
sftp.download_tree(src_dir, dst_dir)
FTPClient example
from pyftpclient.ftp_client import FTPClient
connection_config = {
'hostname': '127.0.0.1',
'username': 'viewonly',
'password': 'viewonly'
'port': 21
}
with FTPClient(**connection_config) as ftp:
print(ftp.listdir('/')
ftp.download_file('/home/src_file'), '~/dst_file')
ftp.download_tree(src_dir, dst_dir)
FAQs
ftp client wrapper to simplify working with paramiko or ftplib
We found that pyftpclient demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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