VBSCRIPT TO FTP

[craizie11]

does anyone have a VBSCRIPt that will connect to a FTP site and download all the files (including subdirectories) in the directory.

For Example my ftp site is: ftp.injoy.com
username: user
password: pass

then i want to change to directory /webapps

and then download all the files (including all the subdirectories in /webapps) into my c:\webapps directory

I was using a dos batch file with the mget command, however mget doesn't pull the subdirectories.
And i need to be able to get the subdirectories.

 

[xmsre]

No, but I have the opposite. I have one that you put into your sendto folder so that when you right click a file you get a sendto FTP site option.

 

[Narizz28]

MGET won't do the subs. To get multiple files from multiple subdir's, write an answer file. Use the same commands as you would enter at the CLI in a txt doc, line by line. Then run the answer file against the Wscript.Shell run method like so (Assuming the txt was in C:\):

Set ObjShell = CreateObject(Wscript.Shell)

ObjShell.Run ("FTP.EXE -s:C:\Answerfile.txt")

Set up the destination folders, and use "lcd" in the answer file to change dest dir's.

And don't forget to release the instanstiated objects with a "Set objShell = nothing" to prevent memory leaks. (Just a personal rule of thumb of mine)

Hope that helps.

 

[craizie11]

Narizz,

Thanks for the advice...but what exactly am i putting in the answerfile.txt that'll allow me to pull the subdirectories? Just the dos commands for ftp?

 

[EBGreen]

I think ncftp will do subs. Can't remember for sure.

 

[Narizz28]

Yes, throw a CD in between MGET statements (and an lcd command to change the local current dir) and walk the subdir's manually. You answer file will look something like this:

username
password
binary
lcd C:mget *.zip 
lcd C:\Folder1
cd folder1
mget *.zip
lcd C:\folder2
cd folder2
ascii
mget *.ini
bye

And kick the ftp session off bye the example in my first post in this thread.

Hope that helps you.

 

[Narizz28]

Oops, I forgot the VERY FIRST LINE in the answer should be the connection, like:

open ftp.domain.com

Sorry about that.

 

[craizie11]

Narizz28,

Thanks for the advice. What i'm looking for is a method for the script to automatically detect the directories and then pull the files from there. More of a dynamic script (VBSCRIPT or DOS Batch), rather then me specifying the directories to download. I don't know if there exists such a method, but if anyone knows please let me know.

Thanks again.

 

[EBGreen]

you could do it using ncftp. It will give you a dir of the remote directory. You can capture this output parsing it for the subdirs. Then CD into those pull their files and see if any of them have subdirs...etc...etc.

 

[SlakeB]

This is a question for xmsre:

When you said:
"No, but I have the opposite. I have one that you put into your sendto folder so that when you right click a file you get a sendto FTP site option."

what sendto folder are you talking about? I would like to be able to add some of my own scripts to a right click menu.