import ftplib import os def download_flat_directory(ftp_host, username, password, remote_dir, local_path): # Connect and log in ftp = ftplib.FTP(ftp_host) ftp.login(username, password) # Change to the target directory on the server ftp.cwd(remote_dir) # Get a list of all filenames filenames = ftp.nlst() for filename in filenames: local_filename = os.path.join(local_path, filename) with open(local_filename, 'wb') as f: # Download file in binary mode ftp.retrbinary(f"RETR {filename}", f.write) ftp.quit() Use code with caution. Recursive Directory Downloads
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: Establishing a session with ftplib.FTP() . : Executing retrbinary() for each file to write
: Changing the working directory on the server with cwd() . flat directory (no subfolders)
: Executing retrbinary() for each file to write data to your local machine. Basic Download of All Files in a Folder
: Using nlst() for a list of names or mlsd() for machine-readable metadata.
If you only need to download the files within a single, flat directory (no subfolders), you can use a loop with nlst() .