Python 3 – upload files over FTP

source: http://daanlenaerts.com/blog/2015/08/18/python-3-upload-files-over-ftp/

 

FTP is a very popular, and commonly used file transfer protocol. Almost everyone who has a website, has used FTP to put it online. It’s easy to use, fast, and – when using SFTP – secure as well. It can be really useful to be able to transfer files over FTP with a Python script. So that’s what I’ll be doing right now.

First create a new .py file. Let’s start with importing ftplib, which we’ll be using to transfer files.

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import ftplib

1	import ftplib

Next, it’s time to configure the connection to the server. We do this by providing ftplib with the server address, ftp username and password.

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server = 'ENTER_YOUR_SERVER_ADDRESS' username = 'ENTER_YOUR_USERNAME' password = 'ENTER_YOUR_PASSWORD' ftp_connection = ftplib.FTP(server, username, password)

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server = 'ENTER_YOUR_SERVER_ADDRESS' username = 'ENTER_YOUR_USERNAME' password = 'ENTER_YOUR_PASSWORD' ftp_connection = ftplib.FTP(server, username, password)

After creating our new FTP object, we’ll define the remote directory where the transferred file needs to get stored. We immediately navigate into this folder.

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remote_path = "/content/" ftp_connection.cwd(remote_path)

1 2	remote_path = "/content/" ftp_connection.cwd(remote_path)

The last piece of code we’ll add will read a local file (“a.txt” in this case) and transfer it to the previously defined remote directory.

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fh = open("C:/tempupload/a.txt", 'rb') ftp_connection.storbinary('STOR a.txt', fh) fh.close()

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fh = open("C:/tempupload/a.txt", 'rb') ftp_connection.storbinary('STOR a.txt', fh) fh.close()

That’s already it!

It’s kinda straight-forward, but for your convenience I pasted the full code below:

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import ftplib server = 'ENTER_YOUR_SERVER_ADDRESS' username = 'ENTER_YOUR_USERNAME' password = 'ENTER_YOUR_PASSWORD' ftp_connection = ftplib.FTP(server, username, password) remote_path = "/content/" ftp_connection.cwd(remote_path) fh = open("C:/tempupload/a.txt", 'rb') ftp_connection.storbinary('STOR a.txt', fh) fh.close()

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import ftplib   server = 'ENTER_YOUR_SERVER_ADDRESS' username = 'ENTER_YOUR_USERNAME' password = 'ENTER_YOUR_PASSWORD' ftp_connection = ftplib.FTP(server, username, password) remote_path = "/content/" ftp_connection.cwd(remote_path) fh = open("C:/tempupload/a.txt", 'rb') ftp_connection.storbinary('STOR a.txt', fh) fh.close()