I want to download the most recent file from FTP server with python. I am able to connect to the server and download all the files in a particular directory but I do not know how to find the most recent file with the specific keyword in the subject.
Following is the code i am using. But it returns all the files with .png keyname. I do not know how to apply os.path.getctime here to get the latest file.Thats all the help i wanted. import ftplib import os ftp = ftplib.FTP('test.rebex.net', 'demo','password') ftp.retrlines('LIST') ftp.cwd("/pub") ftp.retrlines('LIST') ftp.cwd("example") ftp.retrlines('LIST') filematch='.png' target_dir='C:/Users/muzamal.pervez/Desktop/OPD Claims' for filename in ftp.nlst(filematch): target_file_name=os.path.join(target_dir,os.path.basename(filename)) with open(target_file_name,'wb') as fhandle: ftp.retrbinary('RETR %s' %filename, fhandle.write)
