(AutoIt) FTP Non-Recursive Sync Directory (Download)

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Download files from the server that have filenames matchhing a pattern, and don't yet exist in a local directory.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

; This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
; See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$oFtp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Ftp2")

$oFtp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com"
$oFtp.Username = "myUsername"
$oFtp.Password = "myPassword"
$oFtp.Port = 21
$oFtp.AuthTls = True

; Connect and login to the FTP server.
Local $bSuccess = $oFtp.Connect()
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oFtp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; Change to the remote directory where the files are located.
; This step is only necessary if the files are not in the root directory
; of the FTP account.
$bSuccess = $oFtp.ChangeRemoteDir("qa")
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oFtp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; Indicate that we only want to download files with filenames ending in ".txt"
$oFtp.SyncMustMatch = "*.txt"

; Modes for synchronization are as follows:
; mode=0: Download all files
; mode=1: Download all files that do not exist on the local filesystem.
; mode=2: Download newer or non-existant files.
; mode=3: Download only newer files. If a file does not already exist on the local filesystem, it is not downloaded from the server.
; mode=5: Download only missing files or files with size differences.
; mode=6: Same as mode 5, but also download newer files.
; mode=99: Do not download files, but instead delete remote files that do not exist locally.
Local $iMode = 1

; Download all files matching "*.txt" from the current remote ftp directory.
; The files are downloaded into c:/temp/qa_output
$bSuccess = $oFtp.SyncLocalDir("c:/temp/qa_output",$iMode)
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oFtp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; We can see what files were downloaded in the SyncedFiles property,
; which lists the files one per line.
ConsoleWrite($oFtp.SyncedFiles & @CRLF)

; Perhaps we wish to delete the files we just downloaded from the server..
$oSb = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$oSb.Append($oFtp.SyncedFiles)

$oSt = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringTable")
$oSt.AppendFromSb($oSb)

Local $iNumFiles = $oSt.Count
Local $i = 0
Local $sRemoteFilename
While $i < $iNumFiles
    $sRemoteFilename = $oSt.StringAt($i)
    ConsoleWrite("Deleting " & $sRemoteFilename & " from the FTP server" & @CRLF)
    $bSuccess = $oFtp.DeleteRemoteFile($sRemoteFilename)
    If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
        ConsoleWrite($oFtp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
        Exit
    EndIf

    $i = $i + 1
Wend

$bSuccess = $oFtp.Disconnect()