How can I get file from FTP (using C#)?
Take a look at How to: Download Files with FTP or downloading all files in directory ftp and c#
// Get the object used to communicate with the server.
FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://www.contoso.com/test.htm");
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile;
// This example assumes the FTP site uses anonymous logon.
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential ("anonymous","[email protected]");
FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
Console.WriteLine("Download Complete, status {0}", response.StatusDescription);
reader.Close();
reader.Dispose();
response.Close();
Edit If you want to rename file on FTP Server take a look at this Stackoverflow question
Easiest way
The most trivial way to download a binary file from an FTP server using .NET framework is using WebClient.DownloadFile
.
It takes an URL to the source remote file and a path to the target local file. So you can use a different name for the local file, if you need that.
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
client.DownloadFile(
"ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/file.zip", @"C:\local\path\file.zip");
Advanced options
If you need greater control, that WebClient
does not offer (like TLS/SSL encryption, ASCII mode, active mode, etc), use FtpWebRequest
. Easy way is to just copy an FTP response stream to FileStream
using Stream.CopyTo
:
FtpWebRequest request =
(FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/file.zip");
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile;
using (Stream ftpStream = request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())
using (Stream fileStream = File.Create(@"C:\local\path\file.zip"))
{
ftpStream.CopyTo(fileStream);
}
Progress monitoring
If you need to monitor a download progress, you have to copy the contents by chunks yourself:
FtpWebRequest request =
(FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/file.zip");
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile;
using (Stream ftpStream = request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())
using (Stream fileStream = File.Create(@"C:\local\path\file.zip"))
{
byte[] buffer = new byte[10240];
int read;
while ((read = ftpStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
{
fileStream.Write(buffer, 0, read);
Console.WriteLine("Downloaded {0} bytes", fileStream.Position);
}
}
For GUI progress (WinForms ProgressBar
), see:
FtpWebRequest FTP download with ProgressBar
Downloading folder
If you want to download all files from a remote folder, see
C# Download all files and subdirectories through FTP.