- It seems like the ftp server allows anonymous access; You don't need pass username, password.
- FTP constructor accept hostname(or IP), not URL.
import sys
import os
from ftplib import FTP
ftp = FTP("ftpsite.com")
ftp.login()
ftp.cwd("/ftp/site/directory/")
listing = []
ftp.retrlines("LIST", listing.append)
words = listing[0].split(None, 8)
filesize = int(words[4])
filename = words[-1].lstrip()
class VerboseWriter:
def __init__(self, lf, filesize):
self.progress = 0
self.lf = lf
self.filesize = filesize
def write(self, data):
self.lf.write(data)
self.progress += len(data)
sys.stdout.write('\r{}/{} ({:.1%})'.format(self.progress, self.filesize, float(self.progress)/self.filesize))
sys.stdout.flush()
#download the file
with open(os.path.join(r"c:\example", filename), 'wb') as f:
ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + filename, VerboseWriter(lf, filesize).write, 8*1024)
print
ftp.quit()