The /ftp/store Robot

Transloadit is happy to export to whatever storage solution suits you best.

The /ftp/store Robot exports encoding results to your FTP servers. No public key authentication is required. This Robot relies on password access.

Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
`credentials`	(required) String		Please create your associated Template Credentials in your Transloadit account and use the name of your Template Credentials as this parameter's value. They will contain the values for your ftp host, user and password.
`path`	String	`"${unique_prefix}/${file.url_name}"`	The path at which the file is to be stored. This can contain any available Assembly variables. Please note that you might need to include your homedir at the beginning of the path.
`url_template`	String	`"http://{HOST}/{PATH}"`	The URL of the file in the result JSON. The following Assembly variables are supported.
`ssl_url_template`	String	`"https://{HOST}/{PATH}"`	The SSL URL of the file in the result JSON. The following Assembly variables are supported.

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Live demos

Our /ftp/store Robot can be used in combination with other Robots, to create powerful workflows unique to your use case.
Here are a few example scenarios, and the required the Assembly Instructions to implement them.
You can also try demos of these examples right here, live on our website.

Store all uploaded files on an FTP server

{
  "steps": {
    "exported": {
      "use": [":original"],
      "robot": "/ftp/store",
      "credentials": "YOUR_CREDENTIALS",
      "path": "uploads/make/this/dir/if/you/!_like/${file.url_name}",
      "url_template": "http://ftp-demo.transloadit.com:81/make/this/dir/if/you/!_like/${file.url_name}"
    }
  }
}

Try the live demo

our /ftp/store Robot blog posts

Over the years we wrote the following posts about our /ftp/store Robot on our blog:

Releasing Our FTP Robot May 29, 2012

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You can easily combine Robots to create powerful workflows, unique to your business.
This is the power of Transloadit.