A super-simple, no-frills FTP client for the command line written in Python. No sudo privileges needed to install or use. Works on *Nix, Mac OS X, and Windows systems and with Python versions 2 and 3.
This is a very early version of FTPY. As such, there are still uncaught exceptions and potential bugs that occur when using FTPY. So far in my usage, I haven't encountered any bugs but I have seen a few uncaught exceptions. Use at your own risk.
Drop ftpy into a directory on your path. One easy way to do this is by cloning the repository and moving the Python script wherever you want it:
$ git clone https://github.com/mshmoustafa/FTPY.git
$ mv FTPY/ftpy dir/in/your/PATH
Delete ftpy to uninstall the script. Note that FTPY does not install or create any other files, so uninstallation really does amount to deleting the ftpy script.
$ rm ftpy
Or on Windows:
del ftpy
Run the script:
$ python ftpy
Log into your host by typing in your host URL, username, and password at the prompts:
$ Host name (URL): myhost.com
$ Username (blank for anonymous): myusername
$ Password (blank for anonymous):
Run the script and provide the host as an argument:
$ python ftpy myhost.com
Log into your host by typing in your username and password at the prompts:
$ Username (blank for anonymous): myusername
$ Password (blank for anonymous):
Run the script and provide the host and username as arguments:
$ python ftpy myhost.com myusername
Log into your host by typing in your password at the prompt:
$ Password (blank for anonymous):
Run the script and provide the host, username, and password as arguments:
$ python ftpy myhost.com myusername mypassword
Keep in mind the lowered security of entering your password visibly on the command line. If any of your credentials are incorrect, the script will display prompts for you to type in your credentials again.
Once logged in, you can type in commands. FTPY attempts to emulate bash filesystem commands rather than use standard FTP commands. This means that the command to list the files in a directory is ls instead of list, the command to change directories is cd instead of cwd, etc.
ls lists the files in the current directory.
Command: ls
cd changes to another directory:
Command: cd public_html
cd .. goes up one directory.
Command: pwd
Works with binary and ascii files.
Command: get index.html
Note on binary vs. ascii: get uses the binary transfer mode for all downloads.
Works with binary and ascii files. If you are uploading a file outside of the directory where you executed ftpy, you must use the absolute path of the file.
Command: put myimage.png
Command: put /Users/username/myimage.png
Note on binary vs. ascii: put uses the binary transfer mode for all uploads.
Command: mv page.html subdirectory/page.html
Command: mv old_name.html new_name.html
Does not work on directories. See rmdir.
Command: rm deleteme.html
Command: mkdir new_directory
The directory must be empty to be deleted.
Command: rmdir empty_dir
Nicely closes the connection to the FTP server.
Command: exit
quit works the same as exit. Use whichever one you remember first.
Command: quit
FTPY is licensed with the MIT license. Enjoy.
One day I was using my ASUS C200 Chromebook and I needed to access my web server using FTP. So I opened up a terminal, typed in ftp and hit enter. To my surprise, I got this message: bash: ftp: command not found. I looked around for some FTP clients for use with my Chromebook, but I couldn't find any good ones to use. I could have switched over to my Xubuntu chroot using crouton, but I wanted a solution I could use in Chrome OS. So I decided to make my own FTP client using Python's excellent ftplib module. The goal is to make the client very easy to use in almost any environment.