Found example code, but it won't let me connect
Hello everyone
I found some example code on the internet, but it won't let me connect to the SFTP.
I've been using FileZilla for SFTP transfers, but I am now in the need for some automated scripting. So I came across WinSCP. Every day I connect to a remote folder and there are just under 100 files. And every day I'm downloading a dozen from there, and that list of files I need varies by day of week. So I want to automate that :)
I found this thread here and then copied the script mentioned in there:
Download a file from SFTP site using VBA
But the shell tells me host "username" does not exist. So something must be wrong in the syntax that I copied from there.
This is my script:
What am I doing wrong?
I tried the documentation/help on here, searched for the
I found some example code on the internet, but it won't let me connect to the SFTP.
I've been using FileZilla for SFTP transfers, but I am now in the need for some automated scripting. So I came across WinSCP. Every day I connect to a remote folder and there are just under 100 files. And every day I'm downloading a dozen from there, and that list of files I need varies by day of week. So I want to automate that :)
I found this thread here and then copied the script mentioned in there:
Download a file from SFTP site using VBA
But the shell tells me host "username" does not exist. So something must be wrong in the syntax that I copied from there.
This is my script:
# Connect to the host and login using password open sftp://user:password.host.com # Change the remote directory cd remotetargetpath # get all the files in the remote directory and download them to a specific local directory get *example_pattern*.csv localtargetpath # Close and terminate the session exit
I tried the documentation/help on here, searched for the
open
command, but can't find syntax :(