How to upload to an FTP site

[Nick Brooks]

Hi, this is my first post here so I hope it's useful.

I've been playing with an anti-theft set-up using Tasker and wanted to upload a picture to an FTP site.  I've managed to do it using SL4A and this Python script.  I'm a complete novice programmer so it may not work for you, but it does work for me.

You need to pass 6 variables from Tasker to SL4A - all are compulsory

%myFTPuser -           your user name on the FTP site

%myFPTpass -          your password

%myFTPserver -         the name of your ftp server (mine is ftp.zen.co.uk)

%myFTPremotedir -   the name of the directory on the remote system where you want to put the file (may need to exist first)

%myFTPremotefile -   the name of the file on the remote system (overwrites without asking)

%myFTPlocaldir -       the name of the directory where the file you want to upload is. (eg /sdcard/DCIM/Tasker)

%myFTPlocalfile -       The name of the local file (eg picture2.jpg)

The script doesn't do much error checking but will report missing variables and a success or fail at the end.

Here's the content of the script:-

import android
droid = android.Android()
from ftplib import FTP 
#
#check all variables are present
#
try:
    myFTPuser = droid.getIntent().result[u'extras'][u'%myFTPuser']
except:
    droid.makeToast('User name missing')
    exit(1)
try:
    myFTPpass = droid.getIntent().result[u'extras'][u'%myFTPpass']
except:
    droid.makeToast('Password missing')
    exit(1)
try:
    myFTPserver = droid.getIntent().result[u'extras'][u'%myFTPserver']
except:
    droid.makeToast('Server name missing')
    exit(1)
  
try:
    myFTPlocaldir = droid.getIntent().result[u'extras'][u'%myFTPlocaldir']
except:
    droid.makeToast('Local directory name missing')
    exit(1)
try:
    myFTPlocalfile = droid.getIntent().result[u'extras'][u'%myFTPlocalfile']
except:
    droid.makeToast('Local file name missing')
    exit(1)
try:
    myFTPremotedir = droid.getIntent().result[u'extras'][u'%myFTPremotedir']
except:
    droid.makeToast('Remote directory name missing')
    exit(1)
try:
    myFTPremotefile = droid.getIntent().result[u'extras'][u'%myFTPremotefile']
except:
    droid.makeToast('Remote file name missing')
    exit(1)
#
# Get full local path name
#

if myFTPlocaldir.endswith("/") is not True:
    myFTPlocaldir += "/"

myFTPlocalfilename = myFTPlocaldir + myFTPlocalfile

#
# Upload the file
#
try:  
    session = FTP(myFTPserver, myFTPuser, myFTPpass)
    session.cwd(myFTPremotedir)

    uploadfile = open(myFTPlocalfilename,'rb')                        
    session.storbinary('STOR ' + myFTPremotefile, uploadfile)
    droid.makeToast("Uploading now...")

    uploadfile.close()                                         
    session.quit() 
    droid.makeToast("File transfered")
except: 
    droid.makeToast("An error occured")

[Konstantin Mozhukhov]

also you can use tasker plugin -  
1.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.giminisoft.sshftpdownupload
2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full

2013/7/31 Nick Brooks <nick...@gmail.com>

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[Brandon Horwath]

I assume maybe this can be adapted to work with more than photos?

The real question, could this be adapted to get tasker to integrate with chromecast?!?

Hmmm?

[Brandon Horwath]

Nevermind. Koush made an app for this.

... but not as a tasker plug-in.

[Wietse van Buitenen]

thanks for sharing!