FTP Upload Multiple Files to Multiple Sites

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#1

I’ve search the forum quite a bit but have not been able to find a scenario like this. I need to automate Ftp uploads where I have several files that need to be uploaded to many different sites. The password/user id are the same for all sites.

I am not sure if a CSV file can be used for the list of urls and corresponding files since the list has to point to local files to be uploaded. Maybe this is a job for Ruby or Perl that can easily parse CSV. Or, there may be a stand-alone program to handle this situation. I’d appreciate some direction in this venture. THanks.

#2

Hi,

FTP upload can be easily done with the shell curl command
and you can parse CSV files or other sources also with AppleScript

#3

Stephan,

As always, thank you. I have to now take a look at curl since this is new to me. Any curl examples that you can point to which may get me started? Appreciated.

#4

something like this


property ftpserverPath : "[url=ftp://ftp.myServer.com/path/to/folder/]ftp.myServer.com/path/to/folder/[/url]"
property user_name : "user"
property pass_word : "pass"
property theFile : "myFile.xyz"

set sourceFile to ((path to desktop as text) & theFile)
set serverURL to ftpserverPath & theFile
curl_upload(POSIX path of sourceFile, serverURL)

on curl_upload(_source, _destination)
	do shell script "curl " & quoted form of _destination & " -u " & user_name & ":" & pass_word & " -T " & quoted form of _source
end curl_upload