Is it possible to download files during the build pipeline on Azure DevOps?

Question

I am trying to deploy my application using Azure DevOps. Is it possible to download all the images during the build of pipeline? Can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

You can try this powershell scripts to coonect to FTP server and then you can download the files:

#FTP Server Information - SET VARIABLES

$ftp = "ftp://XXX.com/" 

$user = 'UserName' 

$pass = 'Password'

$folder = 'FTP_Folder'

$target = "C:\Folder\Folder1\"

#SET CREDENTIALS

$credentials = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user, $pass)

function Get-FtpDir ($url,$credentials) {

    $request = [Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)

    $request.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+FTP]::ListDirectory

    if ($credentials) { $request.Credentials = $credentials }

    $response = $request.GetResponse()

    $reader = New-Object IO.StreamReader $response.GetResponseStream() 

    while(-not $reader.EndOfStream) {

        $reader.ReadLine()

    }

    #$reader.ReadToEnd()

    $reader.Close()

    $response.Close()

}

#SET FOLDER PATH

$folderPath= $ftp + "/" + $folder + "/"

$files = Get-FTPDir -url $folderPath -credentials $credentials

$files 

$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient 

$webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user,$pass) 

$counter = 0

foreach ($file in ($files | where {$_ -like "*.txt"})){

    $source=$folderPath + $file  

    $destination = $target + $file 

    $webclient.DownloadFile($source, $target+$file)

    #PRINT FILE NAME AND COUNTER

    $counter++

    $counter

    $source

}

After that, you can publish those files to the Artifacts by PublishBuildArtifacts.

Hope this helps.

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