Ive tried connecting to an ftp with the following powershell script:
#FTP Server Information - SET VARIABLES
$ftp = "ftp://XXX.com/"
$user = 'UserName'
$pass = 'Password'
$folder = 'FTP_Folder'
$target = "C:\Folder\Folder1\"
#SET CREDENTIALS
$credentials = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user, $pass)
function Get-FtpDir ($url,$credentials) {
$request = [Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)
$request.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+FTP]::ListDirectory
if ($credentials) { $request.Credentials = $credentials }
$response = $request.GetResponse()
$reader = New-Object IO.StreamReader $response.GetResponseStream()
while(-not $reader.EndOfStream) {
$reader.ReadLine()
}
#$reader.ReadToEnd()
$reader.Close()
$response.Close()
}
#SET FOLDER PATH
$folderPath= $ftp + "/" + $folder + "/"
$files = Get-FTPDir -url $folderPath -credentials $credentials
$files
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user,$pass)
$counter = 0
foreach ($file in ($files | where {$_ -like "*.txt"})){
$source=$folderPath + $file
$destination = $target + $file
$webclient.DownloadFile($source, $target+$file)
#PRINT FILE NAME AND COUNTER
$counter++
$counter
$source
}
But i keep getting 530 error (authentication error) when connecting. I know the username and password is working cause i've tested it in other ftp clients.
So, i think it might be a problem because the webapp demands a certain protocol, which isnt used in this script.
Ive been doing some research and i found something called Posh-SSH which might work. But is there a way to modify my script instead? When im connecting with winscp i use FTP protocol with TLS/SSL implicit encryption to port 990.
UPDATE: WORKS
I made the following work:
#FTP Server Information - SET VARIABLES
$ftp = "ftp://waws-prod-xxx.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net"
$user = 'xxxxx\xxxxx#email.com'
$pass = '$FRnqxxpxxxxxxx'
$folder = 'site/wwwroot/wwwroot/images/uploaded'
$target = "C:\Folder\Folder1\"
#SET CREDENTIALS
$credentials = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user, $pass)
function Get-FtpDir ($url,$credentials) {
$request = [Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)
$request.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+FTP]::ListDirectory
if ($credentials) { $request.Credentials = $credentials }
$response = $request.GetResponse()
$reader = New-Object IO.StreamReader $response.GetResponseStream()
while(-not $reader.EndOfStream) {
$reader.ReadLine()
}
#$reader.ReadToEnd()
$reader.Close()
$response.Close()
}
#SET FOLDER PATH
$folderPath= $ftp + "/" + $folder + "/"
$files = Get-FTPDir -url $folderPath -credentials $credentials
Write-Host($files)
$files
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user,$pass)
$counter = 0
foreach ($file in ($files)){
$source=$folderPath + $file
$destination = $target + $file
$webclient.DownloadFile($source, $target+$file)
#PRINT FILE NAME AND COUNTER
$counter++
$counter
$source
}
I ended up adding a new credential to the web app, and changing sftp in hostname to ftp, and now it works. Using the credentials from webpublish file works too.
I also made WinSCP work and im able to download the full folder with children.
#FTP Server Information - SET VARIABLES
$ftp = "waws-prod-xxx-xxx.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net"
$user = 'xxxxxx\xxxx#xxxxx.no'
$pass = '$xxxxxxxxx'
$folder = 'site/wwwroot/wwwroot/images/uploaded/*'
$target = "C:\Folder\Folder1\*"
# Load WinSCP .NET assembly
Add-Type -Path "WinSCPnet.dll"
# Setup session options
$sessionOptions = New-Object WinSCP.SessionOptions -Property #{
Protocol = [WinSCP.Protocol]::Ftp
HostName = $ftp
UserName = $user
Password = $pass
}
$session = New-Object WinSCP.Session
try
{
# Connect
$session.Open($sessionOptions)
# Download files
$session.GetFiles($folder, $target).Check()
}
finally
{
# Disconnect, clean up
$session.Dispose()
}
FtpWebRequest (nor any other built-in .NET FTP API) does not support implicit TLS/SSL encryption.
See Does .NET FtpWebRequest Support both Implicit (FTPS) and explicit (FTPES)?
Posh-SSH is SSH/SFTP library. It has nothing to do with FTP.
And as you get an "authentication error", I believe your problem is actually different. Double check your credentials. You are probably using wrong ones in your code.
Also, if WinSCP works for you, you can use WinSCP .NET assembly from the PowerShell. WinSCP GUI can even generate a code template for you, based on your working GUI session.
i wanna write power shell script for send files to my ftp server files type .csv, but i'm getting error like this
Exception calling "UploadFile" with "2" argument(s): "The remote server returned an error: (553) File name not allowed."
At E:\test\test\transfer_data_script.ps1:12 char:1
+ $webclient.UploadFile($uri, $item.FullName)
My code looks like this
$Dir="E:\test\test\test"
#ftp server
$ftp = "ftp://ftp.test.com/usr/local/bin/php/test/domains/test.com/public_html/pizdu"
$user = "test"
$pass = "test-"
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user,$pass)
#list every sql server trace file
foreach($item in (dir $Dir "*.csv")){
"Uploading $item..."
$uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp+$item.Name)
$webclient.UploadFile($uri, $item.FullName)
Any idea why its not working? Any help ar advice will be appreciated
I need a simple script which will download file/files from my external FTP server.
I tried to run it in a batch file, but it didn't work:
ftp yourftpaddress
user yourusername
yourpassword
get yourfile.type
bye
pause
I need it for Windows 7
Please try out this PowerShell script for downloading files from an FTP Server
#ftp server
$ftp = "ftp://example.com/"
$usernmae = "XX"
$password = "XXX"
$SetType = "bin"
$remotePickupDir = Get-ChildItem 'c:\test' -recurse
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($username,$password)
foreach($item in $remotePickupDir){
$uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp+$item.Name)
#$webclient.UploadFile($uri,$item.FullName)
$webclient.DownloadFile($uri,$item.FullName)
}
Hope this helps! Cheers!
Hi All i am new to power shell scripting, i am trying to download all files in root directory and files in sub folder based on file name from FTP server. As i am looking to download files which got matched on files names in like, as my path will always point to root directory and root directory is having text files and sub folders, the sub folders contains text files.
I found an example to get text files to download to local from ftp server, but the example i found is only downloading text files from root directory it is not scanning sub folders and not getting files in sub folders.
Here is the example i tried
# $url = "ftp://XXX.com/"
$user = 'UserName'
$pass = 'Password'
$folder = 'FTP_Folder'
$target = "C:\Folder\Folder1\"
#SET CREDENTIALS
$credentials = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user, $pass)
function Get-FtpDir ($url,$credentials) {
$request = [Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)
$request.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+FTP]::ListDirectory
if ($credentials) { $request.Credentials = $credentials }
$response = $request.GetResponse()
$reader = New-Object IO.StreamReader $response.GetResponseStream()
$reader.ReadToEnd()
$reader.Close()
$response.Close()
}
#SET FOLDER PATH
$folderPath= $ftp + "/" + $folder + "/"
$Allfiles=Get-FTPDir -url $folderPath -credentials $credentials
$files = ($Allfiles -split "`r`n")
$files
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user,$pass)
$counter = 0
foreach ($file in ($files | where {$_ -like "*.txt"})){
$source=$folderPath + $file
$destination = $target + $file
$webclient.DownloadFile($source, $target+$file)
#PRINT FILE NAME AND COUNTER
$counter++
$counter
$source
}
I tried a module PSFTP module functions like Get-ftpchilditem function with recursive, but it not worked for me.
Please help me in this to get files from root folder and sub folders of FTP server to local system.
I have done it in the past using WinSCP and SFTP. The example is below. This uses SFTP SCP which is basically over SSH. I am sure you can change the WInSCP protocol to ftp and try different combination. Hope this helps you. Change the FileMasks to only include .txt and this will go through sub folders. Also for this to work you will require WinSCPnet.dll and WinSCP.exe which you can easily download from WinSCP site. Download the ".Net Assembly/COM Library" and keep the script and the required files in the same folder and update the path in the script. Good Luck.
# Load WinSCP .NET assembly
Add-Type -Path "C:\Users\administrator.AD\Documents\WinSCP Script\WinSCPnet.dll"
$hostname = "ftp.xyz.net"
$user = "me"
$pass = "mypassword"
$sfolder = "/home/me"
$dfolder = "C:\tmp"
$sshHostKeyFingerprint = "ssh-rsa 2048 eb:2c:f9:ab:19:2e:0c:22:02:d4:8f:64:44:75:ec:04"
$mask = "*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.png;*.tiff;*.txt"
####################### END USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS #########################
# Main script
# Setup session options
$sessionOptions = New-Object WinSCP.SessionOptions -Property #{
Protocol = [WinSCP.Protocol]::Scp
HostName = $hostname
UserName = $user
Password = $pass
SshHostKeyFingerprint = $sshHostKeyFingerprint
}
$session = New-Object WinSCP.Session
$transferOptions = New-Object WinSCP.TransferOptions
$transferOptions.FileMask = "*.jpg; *.jpeg; *.png; *.tiff;"
try
{
# Will continuously report progress of synchronization
$session.add_FileTransferred( { FileTransferred($_) } )
# Connect
$session.Open($sessionOptions)
# Synchronize files
$synchronizationResult = $session.SynchronizeDirectories(
[WinSCP.SynchronizationMode]::Local,$dfolder, $sfolder, $False, $False, 1, $transferOptions)
# Throw on any error
$synchronizationResult.Check()
}
finally
{
# Disconnect, clean up
$session.Dispose()
}
I want to use PowerShell to transfer files with FTP to an anonymous FTP server. I would not use any extra packages. How?
I am not sure you can 100% bullet proof the script from not hanging or crashing, as there are things outside your control (what if the server loses power mid-upload?) - but this should provide a solid foundation for getting you started:
# create the FtpWebRequest and configure it
$ftp = [System.Net.FtpWebRequest]::Create("ftp://localhost/me.png")
$ftp = [System.Net.FtpWebRequest]$ftp
$ftp.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp]::UploadFile
$ftp.Credentials = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential("anonymous","anonymous#localhost")
$ftp.UseBinary = $true
$ftp.UsePassive = $true
# read in the file to upload as a byte array
$content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("C:\me.png")
$ftp.ContentLength = $content.Length
# get the request stream, and write the bytes into it
$rs = $ftp.GetRequestStream()
$rs.Write($content, 0, $content.Length)
# be sure to clean up after ourselves
$rs.Close()
$rs.Dispose()
There are some other ways too. I have used the following script:
$File = "D:\Dev\somefilename.zip";
$ftp = "ftp://username:password#example.com/pub/incoming/somefilename.zip";
Write-Host -Object "ftp url: $ftp";
$webclient = New-Object -TypeName System.Net.WebClient;
$uri = New-Object -TypeName System.Uri -ArgumentList $ftp;
Write-Host -Object "Uploading $File...";
$webclient.UploadFile($uri, $File);
And you could run a script against the windows FTP command line utility using the following command
ftp -s:script.txt
(Check out this article)
The following question on SO also answers this: How to script FTP upload and download?
I'm not gonna claim that this is more elegant than the highest-voted solution...but this is cool (well, at least in my mind LOL) in its own way:
$server = "ftp.lolcats.com"
$filelist = "file1.txt file2.txt"
"open $server
user $user $password
binary
cd $dir
" +
($filelist.split(' ') | %{ "put ""$_""`n" }) | ftp -i -in
As you can see, it uses that dinky built-in windows FTP client. Much shorter and straightforward, too. Yes, I've actually used this and it works!
Easiest way
The most trivial way to upload a binary file to an FTP server using PowerShell is using WebClient.UploadFile:
$client = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$client.Credentials =
New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password")
$client.UploadFile(
"ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/file.zip", "C:\local\path\file.zip")
Advanced options
If you need a greater control, that WebClient does not offer (like TLS/SSL encryption, etc), use FtpWebRequest. Easy way is to just copy a FileStream to FTP stream using Stream.CopyTo:
$request = [Net.WebRequest]::Create("ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/file.zip")
$request.Credentials =
New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password")
$request.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp]::UploadFile
$fileStream = [System.IO.File]::OpenRead("C:\local\path\file.zip")
$ftpStream = $request.GetRequestStream()
$fileStream.CopyTo($ftpStream)
$ftpStream.Dispose()
$fileStream.Dispose()
Progress monitoring
If you need to monitor an upload progress, you have to copy the contents by chunks yourself:
$request = [Net.WebRequest]::Create("ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/file.zip")
$request.Credentials =
New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password")
$request.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp]::UploadFile
$fileStream = [System.IO.File]::OpenRead("C:\local\path\file.zip")
$ftpStream = $request.GetRequestStream()
$buffer = New-Object Byte[] 10240
while (($read = $fileStream.Read($buffer, 0, $buffer.Length)) -gt 0)
{
$ftpStream.Write($buffer, 0, $read)
$pct = ($fileStream.Position / $fileStream.Length)
Write-Progress `
-Activity "Uploading" -Status ("{0:P0} complete:" -f $pct) `
-PercentComplete ($pct * 100)
}
$ftpStream.Dispose()
$fileStream.Dispose()
Uploading folder
If you want to upload all files from a folder, see
PowerShell Script to upload an entire folder to FTP
I recently wrote for powershell several functions for communicating with FTP, see https://github.com/AstralisSomnium/PowerShell-No-Library-Just-Functions/blob/master/FTPModule.ps1. The second function below, you can send a whole local folder to FTP. In the module are even functions for removing / adding / reading folders and files recursively.
#Add-FtpFile -ftpFilePath "ftp://myHost.com/folder/somewhere/uploaded.txt" -localFile "C:\temp\file.txt" -userName "User" -password "pw"
function Add-FtpFile($ftpFilePath, $localFile, $username, $password) {
$ftprequest = New-FtpRequest -sourceUri $ftpFilePath -method ([System.Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp]::UploadFile) -username $username -password $password
Write-Host "$($ftpRequest.Method) for '$($ftpRequest.RequestUri)' complete'"
$content = $content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($localFile)
$ftprequest.ContentLength = $content.Length
$requestStream = $ftprequest.GetRequestStream()
$requestStream.Write($content, 0, $content.Length)
$requestStream.Close()
$requestStream.Dispose()
}
#Add-FtpFolderWithFiles -sourceFolder "C:\temp\" -destinationFolder "ftp://myHost.com/folder/somewhere/" -userName "User" -password "pw"
function Add-FtpFolderWithFiles($sourceFolder, $destinationFolder, $userName, $password) {
Add-FtpDirectory $destinationFolder $userName $password
$files = Get-ChildItem $sourceFolder -File
foreach($file in $files) {
$uploadUrl ="$destinationFolder/$($file.Name)"
Add-FtpFile -ftpFilePath $uploadUrl -localFile $file.FullName -username $userName -password $password
}
}
#Add-FtpFolderWithFilesRecursive -sourceFolder "C:\temp\" -destinationFolder "ftp://myHost.com/folder/" -userName "User" -password "pw"
function Add-FtpFolderWithFilesRecursive($sourceFolder, $destinationFolder, $userName, $password) {
Add-FtpFolderWithFiles -sourceFolder $sourceFolder -destinationFolder $destinationFolder -userName $userName -password $password
$subDirectories = Get-ChildItem $sourceFolder -Directory
$fromUri = new-object System.Uri($sourceFolder)
foreach($subDirectory in $subDirectories) {
$toUri = new-object System.Uri($subDirectory.FullName)
$relativeUrl = $fromUri.MakeRelativeUri($toUri)
$relativePath = [System.Uri]::UnescapeDataString($relativeUrl.ToString())
$lastFolder = $relativePath.Substring($relativePath.LastIndexOf("/")+1)
Add-FtpFolderWithFilesRecursive -sourceFolder $subDirectory.FullName -destinationFolder "$destinationFolder/$lastFolder" -userName $userName -password $password
}
}
Here's my super cool version BECAUSE IT HAS A PROGRESS BAR :-)
Which is a completely useless feature, I know, but it still looks cool \m/ \m/
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $webclient -EventName "UploadProgressChanged" -Action { Write-Progress -Activity "Upload progress..." -Status "Uploading" -PercentComplete $EventArgs.ProgressPercentage } > $null
$File = "filename.zip"
$ftp = "ftp://user:password#server/filename.zip"
$uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp)
try{
$webclient.UploadFileAsync($uri, $File)
}
catch [Net.WebException]
{
Write-Host $_.Exception.ToString() -foregroundcolor red
}
while ($webclient.IsBusy) { continue }
PS. Helps a lot, when I'm wondering "did it stop working, or is it just my slow ASDL connection?"
You can simply handle file uploads through PowerShell, like this.
Complete project is available on Github here https://github.com/edouardkombo/PowerShellFtp
#Directory where to find pictures to upload
$Dir= 'c:\fff\medias\'
#Directory where to save uploaded pictures
$saveDir = 'c:\fff\save\'
#ftp server params
$ftp = 'ftp://10.0.1.11:21/'
$user = 'user'
$pass = 'pass'
#Connect to ftp webclient
$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user,$pass)
#Initialize var for infinite loop
$i=0
#Infinite loop
while($i -eq 0){
#Pause 1 seconde before continue
Start-Sleep -sec 1
#Search for pictures in directory
foreach($item in (dir $Dir "*.jpg"))
{
#Set default network status to 1
$onNetwork = "1"
#Get picture creation dateTime...
$pictureDateTime = (Get-ChildItem $item.fullName).CreationTime
#Convert dateTime to timeStamp
$pictureTimeStamp = (Get-Date $pictureDateTime).ToFileTime()
#Get actual timeStamp
$timeStamp = (Get-Date).ToFileTime()
#Get picture lifeTime
$pictureLifeTime = $timeStamp - $pictureTimeStamp
#We only treat pictures that are fully written on the disk
#So, we put a 2 second delay to ensure even big pictures have been fully wirtten in the disk
if($pictureLifeTime -gt "2") {
#If upload fails, we set network status at 0
try{
$uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp+$item.Name)
$webclient.UploadFile($uri, $item.FullName)
} catch [Exception] {
$onNetwork = "0"
write-host $_.Exception.Message;
}
#If upload succeeded, we do further actions
if($onNetwork -eq "1"){
"Copying $item..."
Copy-Item -path $item.fullName -destination $saveDir$item
"Deleting $item..."
Remove-Item $item.fullName
}
}
}
}
You can use this function :
function SendByFTP {
param (
$userFTP = "anonymous",
$passFTP = "anonymous",
[Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]$serverFTP,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]$localFile,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]$remotePath
)
if(Test-Path $localFile){
$remoteFile = $localFile.Split("\")[-1]
$remotePath = Join-Path -Path $remotePath -ChildPath $remoteFile
$ftpAddr = "ftp://${userFTP}:${passFTP}#${serverFTP}/$remotePath"
$browser = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$url = New-Object System.Uri($ftpAddr)
$browser.UploadFile($url, $localFile)
}
else{
Return "Unable to find $localFile"
}
}
This function send specified file by FTP.
You must call the function with these parameters :
userFTP = "anonymous" by default or your username
passFTP = "anonymous" by default or your password
serverFTP = IP address of the FTP server
localFile = File to send
remotePath = the path on the FTP server
For example :
SendByFTP -userFTP "USERNAME" -passFTP "PASSWORD" -serverFTP "MYSERVER" -localFile "toto.zip" -remotePath "path/on/the/FTP/"
Goyuix's solution works great, but as presented it gives me this error: "The requested FTP command is not supported when using HTTP proxy."
Adding this line after $ftp.UsePassive = $true fixed the problem for me:
$ftp.Proxy = $null;
Simple solution if you can install curl.
curl.exe -p --insecure "ftp://<ftp_server>" --user "user:password" -T "local_file_full_path"