Python: download a file from an FTP server

The requests library doesn't support ftp:// links.

To download a file from an FTP server you could use urlretrieve:

import urllib.request

urllib.request.urlretrieve('ftp://server/path/to/file', 'file')
# if you need to pass credentials:
#   urllib.request.urlretrieve('ftp://username:password@server/path/to/file', 'file')

Or urlopen:

import shutil
import urllib.request
from contextlib import closing

with closing(urllib.request.urlopen('ftp://server/path/to/file')) as r:
    with open('file', 'wb') as f:
        shutil.copyfileobj(r, f)

Python 2:

import shutil
import urllib2
from contextlib import closing

with closing(urllib2.urlopen('ftp://server/path/to/file')) as r:
    with open('file', 'wb') as f:
        shutil.copyfileobj(r, f)

Use urllib2. For more specifics, check out this example from doc.python.org:

Here's a snippet from the tutorial that may help

import urllib2

req = urllib2.Request('ftp://example.com')
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
the_page = response.read()

You Can Try this

import ftplib

path = 'pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/nhanes/2001-2002/'
filename = 'L28POC_B.xpt'

ftp = ftplib.FTP("Server IP") 
ftp.login("UserName", "Password") 
ftp.cwd(path)
ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + filename, open(filename, 'wb').write)
ftp.quit()

Try using the wget library for python. You can find the documentation for it here.

import wget
link = 'ftp://example.com/foo.txt'
wget.download(link)