The /ftp/import Robot

Transloadit is happy to import from whatever storage solution suits you best.

The /ftp/import Robot imports whole libraries of files from your FTP servers into Transloadit. 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`	(required) String		The path on your FTP server where to search for files. Files are imported recursively from all sub-directories and sub-sub-directories (and so on) from this path.
`ignore_errors`	Boolean	`false`	There might be an error coming up when trying to extract meta data from your imported files. This happens for files that are zero bytes big for example. Setting this to `true` will cause the Robot to not stop the import (and the entire Assembly) when that happens.
`passive_mode`	Boolean	`true`	Determines if passive mode should be used for the FTP connection.

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Live demos

Our /ftp/import 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.

Copy many files from FTP into an Amazon S3 bucket

{
  "steps": {
    "imported": {
      "robot": "/ftp/import",
      "result": true,
      "credentials": "YOUR_CREDENTIALS",
      "path": "my_folder/snowflake.jpg"
    },
    "exported": {
      "use": [":original"],
      "robot": "/s3/store",
      "result": true,
      "credentials": "demo_s3_credentials"
    }
  }
}

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Import files from an FTP server

{
  "steps": {
    "imported": {
      "robot": "/ftp/import",
      "result": true,
      "credentials": "YOUR_CREDENTIALS",
      "path": "my_folder/snowflake.jpg"
    },
    "resized": {
      "use": ["imported"],
      "robot": "/image/resize",
      "result": true,
      "height": 130,
      "imagemagick_stack": "v2.0.3",
      "width": 130,
      "zoom": false
    },
    "exported": {
      "use": ["imported", "resized"],
      "robot": "/s3/store",
      "credentials": "demo_s3_credentials"
    }
  }
}

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our /ftp/import Robot blog posts

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

On Upgrades & Goodbyes August 8, 2014
Introducing the new /ftp/import Robot March 6, 2014

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