Python 3 ftplib error “Name or service not known”

Question

I am trying to download a file from FTP server using ftplib library of Python 3.

Here is the relevant code-

ftp = ftplib.FTP(\"ftp://library.daisy.or         


        

Answer 1

The host argument of FTP constructor takes, as the name suggests, a hostname only, like library.daisy.org. You are passing in a whole URL.

This is correct:

ftp = ftplib.FTP("library.daisy.org")

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The full path goes to an argument of the RETR command:

ftp.retrbinary("RETR User_****/Wise & Otherwise-22.zip", open(filename, 'wb').write)

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As you are connecting via proxy, you have to cater for that too.

There are lot of questions here covering that part. But you didn't tell us what kind of proxy you are using, so I cannot be more specific.