(VBScript) SFTP Download all Files in a Directory

Demonstrates how to download all files in a remote directory. This example uses the SyncTreeDownload method in a non-recursive mode that forces the download of all files, regardless of date/time or size differences.

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

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

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

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.SFtp")
set sftp = CreateObject("Chilkat.SFtp")

success = sftp.Connect("my-ssh-server.com",22)
If (success = 1) Then
    success = sftp.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin","mySshPassword")
End If

If (success = 1) Then
    success = sftp.InitializeSftp()
End If

If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(sftp.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Download all the files from the remote directory "syncDownloadTest/xml"
' into our local directory "qa_output"
' Both directories are relative paths.  The remote directory
' is relative to the HOME directory of the SSH user account.
' The local directory is relative to the current working directory of the process.
' It is also possible to use absolute paths.

remoteDir = "syncDownloadTest/xml"
localDir = "qa_output"
' Mode 0 causes SyncTreeDownload to download all files.
mode = 0
' Do not recursively descend the remote directory tree.  Just download all the files in specified directory.
recursive = 0
success = sftp.SyncTreeDownload(remoteDir,localDir,mode,recursive)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(sftp.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Success.")

outFile.Close