Reputation: 25
I need to create a node.js app that connects to this ftp server and downloads files from this directory:
ftp://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cors/rinex/2021/143/nynb
I've tried following the ftp
npm package docs but I feel like I am doing something horribly wrong:
import Client from "ftp";
/**
* https://github.com/mscdex/node-ftp
*/
const c = new Client();
c.on("ready", function () {
c.get(
"ftp://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cors/rinex/2021/143/nynb",
(error, stream) => {
if (error) throw error;
console.log(`stream`, stream);
stream.once("close", function () {
c.end();
});
}
);
});
// connect to localhost:21 as anonymous
c.connect();
When I run npm run dev
with nodemon
I get:
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:21
at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1146:16)
[nodemon] app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting...
Can someone please help? I'm completely stumped.
Is it possible if someone could show me a small example of how I can connect to this remote ftp server?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 2806
Reputation: 5411
There are a few points :
c.connect();
. You need to connect to www.ngs.noaa.gov
to download files from there.cors/rinex/2021/143/nynb
is a directory on the remote host. c.get
doesn't work, you need to list all files in the directory then download them 1 by 1.The code below connect to the remote server and list all files in the directory
const Client = require('ftp');
const fs = require("fs");
const c = new Client();
c.on('ready', function () {
c.list( "/cors/rinex/2021/143/nynb", function (err, list) {
if (err) throw err;
console.dir(list);
});
});
c.connect({
host: "www.ngs.noaa.gov",
});
Upvotes: 2