How to download from an FTP automatically

Hi,

You can completely automate it using a windows script file run as a task.

Go here for a good reference:

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ftp.html#UnattendedFTP

Good Luck,

- gurutc

please see:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23805128/creating-a-script-to-schedule-a-bat-file-to-connect-to-ftp-site.html

Little bit confusing...
i was able to create the batch file to call the ftp text
It does log in the user but I am not sure how to select all the folders and copy them to a certain directory?

Also....sometimes there me update on the file but the filename renames the same? Does it prompt for an overwrite?

First, you can not use script to down load directories. You need for that to use wget:

http://pages.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html

if you are going to download multiple files from the same dir, then use

prompt
mget *.ext

First of all...your answers are extremely vague...you should understand that in this matter I dont have as much knowledge as you...hence why I selected beginner when given the option
 
And there has to be a simpler way to do this?

Can you clarify what you want to do with example?

Sure, absolutely
I connect to an ftp server ftp.bbb.com
with user aaa pass bbb
On this ftp server there are about 15 folders (directories), and several files in each of these folders...
ftp.bbb.com
FolderA (Inside the folder there are files aaa.xls, aaa.doc)
FolderB (Inside the folder there are files bbb.xls, bbb.doc)
FolderC (Inside the folder there are files ccc.xls, ccc.doc)
 I need to copy all those folders/files into say a server called server1 (e:\portfolio)
Thanks

Sorry...I should say I need the script to copy (and replace if files are already existent) the files in all those folders daily to that location....and if there are any folders that are added the ftp I want it to copy those too

download wget and install it. from command line run

e:
cd \portfolio
\path\to\wget   --ftp-user=username --ftp-password=yourpassword  -r -nH ftp://remotehostname/dir

if this works then put the commands in .bat file

To install I just extract wget and click on the exe? A cmd box comes up and quickly goes away and thats it?

ok from start go to run then type cmd then enter. to find location of wget run

cd \
dir -s wget*.*

or

dir /s

And do i type the above on 3 seperate lines in the command prompt?
h:\c:
c:\> cd \portfolio
then
c:\portfolio>\path\to\wget   --ftp-user=username --ftp-password=yourpassword  -r -nH ftp://remotehostname/dir
?

I see it on my desktop...I extracted it fine
But then I see the folder and double click on wget.exe and get what I said before

wget1.JPG

yes, but I thought your dir is on e dirve

It is on the C...I just used e as an example...I will use c from now on
Ok, so I guess its installed (I double clicked on wget.exe a cmd box came up and went away after a second)
Then I tried

h:\c:
c:\> cd \portfolio
then
c:\portfolio>\path\to\wget   --ftp-user=username --ftp-password=yourpassword  -r -nH ftp://remotehostname/dir
And I get  "the system cannot find the path specified"

and instead of portfolio my folder is called ftp so its
 h:\c:
c:\> cd \ftp
then
c:\ftp>\path\to\wget   --ftp-user=username --ftp-password=yourpassword  -r -nH ftp://remotehostname/dir 
 

please replace \path\to by the dir name in which wget is. This is the dir to which wget.exe was extracted

So it will be ...
c:\ftp>\path\c:\wget\wget   --ftp-user=username --ftp-password=yourpassword  -r -nH ftp://remotehostname/dir 
?

It is extracted into c:\wget

ok, run

c:
c:\> cd \portfolio
c:\portfolio> \wget\wget   --ftp-user=username --ftp-password=yourpassword  -r -nH ftp://remotehostname/dir

/dir at the end is the name of the dir on the ftp server

wget: unrecognized option `--ftp-user=u41165610-bullrich'
Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
Try `wget --help' for more options.
C:\ftp>
I had two spaces between \wget and --ftp-user=username

can you show the full command you used?

C:\ftp> \wget\wget  --ftp-user=xxxx --ftp-password=aaaa -r -nH f
tp.3ianalysis.net/Qwest

wget: unrecognized option `--ftp-user=u41165610-bullrich'
Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
Try `wget --help' for more options.

try

C:\ftp> \wget\wget  --ftp-user=xxxx --ftp-password=aaaa -r -nH ftp://ftp.3ianalysis.net/Qwest

please note the ftp:// before the ftp site name

Same result

try this it is working:

\wget\wget -r -nH ftp://xxxx:aaaa@ftp.3ianalysis.net/Qwest

That worked very well....now if I want to put this on a network drive (which I am connected to via the Z: what would I do?
I want to put the folders in Z:\Folder

So next I would create a .bat file
and for all the folders put something like....
\wget\wget -r -nH ftp://xxxx:maaaa@ftp.3ianalysis.net/Qwest

\wget\wget -r -nH ftp://xxxx:maaaa@ftp.3ianalysis.net/CORS

\wget\wget -r -nH ftp://xxxx:maaaa@ftp.3ianalysis.net/MAS
etc?

Also...some of these folder names have spaces in them for example
AB AB
So it would be
ftp://xxxx:maaaa@ftp.3ianalysis.net/AB AB ?

Thats ok,
I am having issues installing wget and getting the script to run on other PCs...
The cmd box goes away so fast that I cant see whats going on (print scrn not quick enough either)
I want to put this on a server to run...
e:\folder1\folder2
so I put the wget extracted folder in folder2 and ran wget.exe
and my script is the same as before basically
except it is
e:
cd /folder1
cd /folder2
wget etc etc.
I think it is because it is not recognizing wget

how can I help?

umm... cannot install the wget thing on other machines for some reason...I think thats why the batch file isnt running now..

I am having issues installing wget and getting the script to run on other PCs...
The cmd box goes away so fast that I cant see whats going on (print scrn not quick enough either)
I want to put this on a server to run...
e:\folder1\folder2
so I put the wget extracted folder in folder2 and ran wget.exe
and my script is the same as before basically
except it is
e:
cd /folder1
cd /folder2
wget etc etc.
I think it is because it is not recognizing wget

any idea, sorry to rush you

I figured it out
Thanks for your help! Will leave this question open for a day in case I have any other questions!

Closing....thanks for your help!!