Dear All,
somebody have experience to make a script to run in schedule for automatically download file from FTP?

Best Regards;
Boly

duplicate message

I have.
You need man, crontab and ftp, alternatively curl or wget.

echo "machine foobarhost login foo password bar" >>~/.netrc
cat >/usr/local/bin/dostuff <<EOF
echo "bin
get /there/foo.bar /here/foo.bar" | ftp foobarhost
EOF
EDITOR=vi crontab -e
00 00 * * * /usr/local/bin/dostuff
:wq

Thanks Agrouf, but I don't understand can you make bit detail then this.

Best Regards;
Boly

Let say you want to automatically download the file named "foo.bar" which is located on a ftp server named "foobarhost.net", under the "/there" directory. You want to schedule it every night at midnight and you want the file to be downloaded on your local machine to directory "/here".
The administrator of fooberhost.net is paranoid, so he uses accounts with password to let you connect with ftp. He gives you the account foo, whose password is bar.

So, the first step is to make so that your machine is able to automatically connect to foobarhost.net without you manually typing the password.
the ftp command uses a file named ".netrc" for that, which is located in your home directory.
You can edit it to add the password for the user foo for the machine foobarhost.net :
echo "machine foobarhost.net login foo password bar" >>~/.netrc
This will add the required line in the specified file. You can also use gedit or kwrite or vi to do that is you like.
Note this file must not be read by anybody, for obvious security reasons.
Let's change the read access so you are the only one who can access it:
chmod 600 ~/.netrc

Now we need a command that does the download so we can launch it automatically at midnight.
Let's call that command dostuff. Inside, we put the command to download foo.bar from /there at foobarhost.net:
echo "bin
get /there/foo.bar /here/foo.bar" | ftp foobarhost.net
This tells ftp to download foo.bar in binary mode from foobar.net/there to /here
We save the command file to dostuff under /usr/local/bin with gedit/vi/whatever

And last step is to schedule this command every day at midnight.
Use the crontab -e command for that.
add the line
00 00 * * * /usr/local/bin/dostuff
and save the file.
This tells cron to launch /usr/local/bin/dostuff every day of month (*) of every month(*) every day of the week (*) at 00:00

Great, now let's wait for midnight to see if it worked.
In the mean time, we can learn more about the different commands we used from the manual pages:
man ftp
man crontab

Regards,
Agrouf

Good description man.

first of all sorry i know this is a really old post but a quick google of what i need and this came up top

Agrouf seems like the man that could help me with this. I need to schedule a download of a file from an ftp. i want to give it a schedule start and stop time if possible or a way to manually start and stop it would work. but most importantly i need it to repeat the task every minute and to check the file size and resume the download if it bigger than what is already downloaded.

Long shot i know!

I have a program called flashFXP for windows which does this in windows but it requires setting a windows scheduled task so when i try in Linux i doesnt work.