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python-3.x
Djaenike
Djaenike

Reputation: 1865

Downloading csv file from FTP server

I'm looking to download a csv file from our FTP every evening. I'm getting an error when I attempt to run the script saying "socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed". Here's the code I'm using:

import ftplib


ftp = ftplib.FTP('http://192.168.0.00', 'username', 'password')
files = ftp.dir('/')
ftp.cwd("/")
filematch = '*.csv'
target_dir = '/path/to/csv/file'
import os

for filename in ftp.nlst(filematch):
    target_file_name = os.path.join(target_dir,os.path.basename(filename))
    with open(target_file_name,'wb') as fhandle:
            ftp.retrbinary('RETR %s' %filename, fhandle.write)

Not sure what exactly is wrong with my code. Could it be something with the directory formatting, or the FTP format?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3301

Answers (1)

Dima Chubarov
Dima Chubarov

Reputation: 17159

The signature ftplib.FTP() is 

  ftplib.FTP([host[, user[, passwd[, acct[, timeout]]]]])

So you need to provide a hostname as a first argument not an URL.

Make it 

ftp = ftplib.FTP('192.168.0.00', 'username', 'password')

P.S. Is it really 192.168.0.00 with a 00 as the last octet?

Upvotes: 1

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