Python: FTPLIB Download files with original modify time

Question

I'm trying to write a python script to download files from the FTP server, the below code works for me, but I'm curious is there any way to download the files with the original modify time from FTP.Is that is possible with python?

Example: FileZilla have a feature to download the files with the original date time

with open(fileName,'wb') as write
    def writeData(chunk):
        fwrite.write(chunk)
    ftp_client.retrbinary('RETR {}'.format(downFileName), writeData)

Answer 1

As @Justin correctly commented, just set the timestamp after the download.

remote_path = "/remote/path/foo.txt"
local_path = "/local/path/foo.txt"
timestamp = ftp.voidcmd("MDTM " + remote_path)[4:].strip()
mtime = parser.parse(timestamp)

with open(local_path, "wb") as f:
    ftp.retrbinary("RETR " + remote_path, f.write)

os.utime(local_path, (mtime.timestamp(), mtime.timestamp()))

Some references:

• How to get FTP file's modify time using Python ftplib
• How can I set the last modified time of a file from python?
• Python Paramiko SFTP get file along with file timestamp/stat
• How can I set the last modified time of a file from python?

---

Though were you downloading all files in a folder, i would be an overkill to call MDTM for each. It that case, you can retrieve the timestamp from the directory listing retrieved using mlsd or `dir. See How to get FTP file's modify time using Python ftplib .