/*************************************************************************** * _ _ ____ _ * Project ___| | | | _ \| | * / __| | | | |_) | | * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| * * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. * * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. * * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. * * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. * ***************************************************************************/ /* <DESC> * Gets a file using an SFTP URL. * </DESC> */ #include <stdio.h> #include <curl/curl.h> /* define this to switch off the use of ssh-agent in this program */ #undef DISABLE_SSH_AGENT /* * This is an example showing how to get a single file from an SFTP server. * It delays the actual destination file creation until the first write * callback so that it won't create an empty file in case the remote file * doesn't exist or something else fails. */ struct FtpFile { const char *filename; FILE *stream; }; static size_t my_fwrite(void *buffer, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *stream) { struct FtpFile *out=(struct FtpFile *)stream; if(out && !out->stream) { /* open file for writing */ out->stream=fopen(out->filename, "wb"); if(!out->stream) return -1; /* failure, can't open file to write */ } return fwrite(buffer, size, nmemb, out->stream); } int main(void) { CURL *curl; CURLcode res; struct FtpFile ftpfile={ "yourfile.bin", /* name to store the file as if successful */ NULL }; curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT); curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { /* * You better replace the URL with one that works! */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://user@server/home/user/file.txt"); /* Define our callback to get called when there's data to be written */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, my_fwrite); /* Set a pointer to our struct to pass to the callback */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &ftpfile); #ifndef DISABLE_SSH_AGENT /* We activate ssh agent. For this to work you need to have ssh-agent running (type set | grep SSH_AGENT to check) or pageant on Windows (there is an icon in systray if so) */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSH_AUTH_TYPES, CURLSSH_AUTH_AGENT); #endif /* Switch on full protocol/debug output */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L); res = curl_easy_perform(curl); /* always cleanup */ curl_easy_cleanup(curl); if(CURLE_OK != res) { /* we failed */ fprintf(stderr, "curl told us %d\n", res); } } if(ftpfile.stream) fclose(ftpfile.stream); /* close the local file */ curl_global_cleanup(); return 0; }