node-red-contrib-ftp

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A Node-RED node to FTP Server.

Pre-requisites

The node-red-contrib-ftp requires Node-RED to be installed.

Install

Run the following command in the root directory of your Node-RED install

npm install node-red-contrib-ftp

Restart your Node-RED instance, the ftp node appears in the palette and ready for use.

Usage

This node will allow you to LIST, GET, PUT and DELETE files on a remote FTP server.

The GET and PUT options use msg.filename (the path/name of the file on the remote machine) and msg.localFilename (the path/name of the file on the local machine - i.e. the one running NR).

The DELETE option only specifies msg.filename (the path/name of the file on the remote machine)

The LIST option returns an array of the file/folders in the user's default ftp folder, containing type, name, sticky, rights(an object), acl, owner, group, size and date.

Example

[{"id":"91039113.5ae0b8","type":"debug","z":"e052b363.bcca48","name":"","active":true,"console":"false","complete":"payload","x":494,"y":72,"wires":[]},{"id":"ebf6cb8.83c77b8","type":"inject","z":"e052b363.bcca48","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"none","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"x":114,"y":141,"wires":[["18704d55.fa8d63"]]},{"id":"18704d55.fa8d63","type":"function","z":"e052b363.bcca48","name":"","func":"msg.filename = 'test.csv';\nmsg.localFilename = '/Users/xxx/Desktop/test_remote.csv';\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":270,"y":141,"wires":[["6f4f3dda.a20a7c"]]},{"id":"6f4f3dda.a20a7c","type":"ftp in","z":"e052b363.bcca48","ftp":"a7676b1a.e9714","operation":"delete","filename":"","localFilename":"","name":"","x":440,"y":143,"wires":[["be82074.47a8878"]]},{"id":"8e30f382.5971f8","type":"inject","z":"e052b363.bcca48","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"none","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"x":108,"y":67,"wires":[["be82074.47a8878"]]},{"id":"be82074.47a8878","type":"ftp in","z":"e052b363.bcca48","ftp":"a7676b1a.e9714","operation":"list","filename":"","localFilename":"","name":"","x":276,"y":68,"wires":[["91039113.5ae0b8"]]},{"id":"a7676b1a.e9714","type":"ftp","z":"","host":"xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx","port":"21","secureOptions":"","user":"username","connTimeout":"","pasvTimeout":"","keepalive":""}]

Acknowledgements

The node-red-contrib-ftp uses the following open source software:

• node-ftp: node-ftp is an FTP client module for node.js that provides an asynchronous interface for communicating with an FTP server.

License

See license (Apache License Version 2.0).

Contributing

Both submitting issues to GitHub issues and Pull requests are welcome to contribute.

Developers

If the developer wants to modify the source of node-red-contrib-ftp, run the following code to create a clone.

cd ~\.node-red\node_modules
git clone https://github.com/joeartsea/node-red-contrib-ftp.git
cd node-red-contrib-ftp
npm install