Python: download a file from an FTP server

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I'm trying to download some public data files. I screenscrape to get the links to the files, which all look something like this:

ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/nhanes/2001-2002/L28POC_B.xpt

I can't find any documentation on the Requests library website.

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9 Answers

Try using the wget library for python. You can find the documentation for it here.

import wget
link = 'ftp://example.com/foo.txt'
wget.download(link)
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If you want to take advantage of recent Python versions' async features, you can use aioftp (from the same family of libraries and developers as the more popular aiohttp library). Here is a code example taken from their client tutorial:

client = aioftp.Client()
await client.connect("ftp.server.com")
await client.login("user", "pass")
await client.download("tmp/test.py", "foo.py", write_into=True)
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