I'm trying to traverse an ftp directory using FTPwalker, however I cannot connect.
The current call is being used:
walker = ftpwalker(server_name="hostname", url="ftp://username:password@hostname")
However walker.check_state() gives:
>> walker.check_state()
Find leading...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/FTPwalker/runwalker.py", line 100, in check_state
self.path_not_exit(False)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/FTPwalker/runwalker.py", line 157, in path_not_exit
self.m_walker.Process_dispatcher(False)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/FTPwalker/main_walker.py", line 82, in Process_dispatcher
leadings = self.find_leading_dirs(self.root)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/FTPwalker/main_walker.py", line 37, in find_leading_dirs
files, dirs = self.run_object.find_leading(top)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/FTPwalker/traverse.py", line 75, in find_leading
conn = ftplib.FTP(self.server_url)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/ftplib.py", line 118, in __init__
self.connect(host)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/ftplib.py", line 153, in connect
source_address=self.source_address)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/socket.py", line 498, in create_connection
for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/socket.py", line 537, in getaddrinfo
for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known
Is the url parameter entered here in the correct format? Pinging the hostname works.
FTPwalker is dead, use FTPflow:
https://pypi.org/project/FTPflow/
Old answer: While the parameter is misleadingly named url, the official FTPwalker example showed pretty clearly, that the value should actually be a plain hostname:
from FTPwalker.runwalker import ftpwalker
walker = ftpwalker("Uniprot", "ftp.uniprot.org")
walker.check_state()
In the the end, the value goes to ftplib.FTP.connect, which takes "hostname".