grunt-ftpscript

Upload files to FTP Server, Active or Passive mode, base ftp command.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-ftpscript --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-ftpscript');

Use matchdep load npm tasks is good idea.

require('matchdep').filterDev('grunt-*').forEach(grunt.loadNpmTasks);

The "ftpscript" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named ftpscript to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  ftpscript: {
    upload: {
      options: {
        host: 'ftp.server.host'
      },
      files: [
        { src: 'src/localfile', dest: '/remotefile' },
        {
          expand: true,
          cwd: 'dest',
          src: [
            '**/*.js',
            '!**/exclude.js'
          ],
          dest: '/remotefolder/'
        }
      ]
    }
  },
})

Username and password are stored as a JSON object in a file named .ftppass, This file should be located in the same folder as your Gruntfile. like grunt-ftp-deploy.

{
  "ftp.server.host": {
    "username": "username1",
    "password": "password1"
  },
  "authKey":{
    "username": "username2",
    "password": "password2"
  }
}

Options

options.host

Type: String Default value: 'localhost'

Ftp Server host address.

options.port

Type: Number Default value: 21

Ftp Server port.

options.authKey

Type: String Default value: same as options.host

Key in the .ftppass.

options.passive

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Use passive mode.

options.type

Type: String Default value: undefined

ascii or binary or auto detect with mime type.

options.dryrun

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Dry run, display ftp script, connect to Ftp Server, skip upload, send ls command, and quit.

options.ftpCommand

Type: String Default value: 'ftp'

Ftp command path, if it dos not in system PATH.

options.encoding

Type: String Default value: 'utf-8'

The encoding of send to Server stream.

options.ftpEncoding

Type: String Default value: 'utf-8'

The encoding of recive from Server stream.

options.mkdirs

Type: Boolean Default value: true

Execute mkdir /remote/folder command.

Usage Examples

In Gruntfile.js

grunt.initConfig({
  ftpscript: {
    main: {
      options: {
        host: 'localhost'
        , port: 2121
        , passive: true
        // , type: 'ascii'
        // , mkdirs: false
        // , dryrun: true
        // , ftpCommand: 'ftp'
        // , encoding: 'utf-8'
        // , ftpEncoding: 'utf-8'
      },
      files: [
        {
          expand: true,
          cwd: 'test',
          src: ['**/*.js', '!**/exclude.js', '!**/sub.js' , '!footer.js'],
          dest: '/js/'
        },
        {
          expand: true,
          cwd: 'test',
          src: ['nav_*', '!nav_test.html'],
          dest: '/app/'
        },
        {
          src: ['test/footer.js'],
          dest: '/foo/footer.js'
        }
      ]
    }
  }
});

Use dry run command parameters.

> grunt ftpscript:main:dry
Running "ftpscript:main:dry" (ftpscript) task

Dry-run mode, start display ftp script.
open localhost 2121
user testuser testpass
type ascii
prompt
passive
mkdir "/js"
mkdir "/js/sub"
mkdir "/app"
mkdir "/foo"
put "test/one.js" "/js/one.js"
put "test/sub/one.js" "/js/sub/one.js"
put "test/sub/three.js" "/js/sub/three.js"
put "test/sub/two.js" "/js/sub/two.js"
put "test/three.js" "/js/three.js"
put "test/two.js" "/js/two.js"
put "test/unit_test.js" "/js/unit_test.js"
put "test/nav_one.html" "/app/nav_one.html"
put "test/nav_two.html" "/app/nav_two.html"
put "test/footer.js" "/foo/footer.js"
quit

End display ftp script.
Connected to localhost.
>> 220 Vhost server
drwxr-xr-x   3 nobody   nobody       4096 Jul 18 06:58 app
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody   nobody       4096 Jul 17 09:54 foo
drwxr-xr-x   3 nobody   nobody       4096 Jul 17 09:54 js
226 Transfer complete
>> 221 Goodbye.

Done, without errors.

Grunt-ftpscript

Upload files to FTP Server, Active or Passive mode, bash ftp command.