Any FTP program that can do this?
 

I want to select a bunch of files from a folder (a few thousand in each folder) and have the FTP program download only files of a certain type - e.g, download only *.html and *.php

It can be done manually but it would take days because of the folder structure and the number of files involved.

Any recommendations please?

use cute ftp

right click -> sorting -> by entention

click the first file with that extention, hold down shift, click the last file. then add to queue. then do that for each type of extention you want.

Thanks... the problem is that I have hundreds and hundreds of folders, some within another folder, some within a folder that's within another folder, etc.

Looks like I'll have to use that method if there's nothing else. :(

It would be fantastic if I could select the root folder, and have the program download everything that ends with *.html or *.php, rather than having to enter each folder and select the files manually.

mabye you could hide all the other files?

or better yet, just download them all. then go to find-> find files or folders in windows and type the path for the folder you downloaded under "look in" then theres a thing on the top to click to sort by type of file. then delete all un-necessary files. problem solved.

I was going to say that it may be possible to download them all and then sort, but previous post is about it.

It's not a right way if you have a lot of other files though.

As far as I remember TeleportPro (or something similar to it) can download only files with specified extentions. I'm not sure if it can work with FTP, but I think you can get those files via http as well.

I'd download everything if there wasn't so much to download... there's about 10GB of stuff spread unevenly across 20-something domains. That's the problem. :)

At the moment I'm fiddling around with WS, bullet proof and cute FTP. Most processes like mass-html editing and mass file deletion/replacement are easy to work out, but this has me stumped. :( There must be a way to do this automatically without downloading everything.

Checking it out... didn't think of that.

you can search and search, but i would start downloading now. you might finish the download before you're done searching.

ahahahaha, true. :(

ok this is my first post but im pretty sure this should help you

download wget ( *nix version | windows version )
its a command line utility but it should work
for example
wget -r --accept=gif,jpg,htm ftp://user@pass:myserver.com
would download all files from your server that hat the extensions .gif .jpg and .htm

i hope thats what youre searching for

have a nice day...

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Thanks. :thumbsup

Grab a copy of FTPVoyager from RhinoSoft.com. It's not a free program like CuteFTP, but it is feature packed and has a very robust file filtering capability that will allow you to see and/or upload/download only files matching what you select. :Graucho

use tar to compress all files of the type you need. Then download the tarfile and uncompress it.. done.. and downloading one massive archive is 100x faster then downloading thousands of crappy lil files

ftp in windows let you do that get *.jpg