urllib.request.urlopen("ftp://username:password@ftpserver/file" returns <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known> if password contains '#'

Question

urllib.request.urlopen("ftp://username:password@ftpserver/file" returns <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known> if password contains '#'

Could someone let me know if there are any known issues? or workaround or fix available for this

Answer 1

The requests library doesn't support ftp:// type links.

To download a file from an FTP server I would recommend using urlretrieve .

Try something like the following:

import urllib.request

urllib.request.urlretrieve('ftp://server/path/to/file', 'file')
# if you need to pass credentials try 
urllib.request.urlretrieve('ftp://username:password@server/path/to/file', 'file')