sftp-client-promise v1.0.4

SSH2 SFTP Client

a SFTP client for node.js, a wrapper for ssh2

Installation

npm install sftp-client-promise

Usage

let Client = require('sftp-client-promise');
let conn = new Client();
conn.connect({
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    port: '8080',
    username: 'username',
    password: '******'
}).then(() => {
    return conn.sftp('readdir', {path: '/pathname'});
}).then((data) => {
    console.log(data, 'the data info');
}).catch((err) => {
    console.log(err, 'catch error');
    conn.end();
});

Documentation

the connection to server config pls see ssh2 client event.

list of methods: all the methods will return a Promise;

readdir

read a directory

conn.sftp('readdir', {path: remoteFilePath})

directory info:

type: // file type(-, d, l)
name: // file name
size: // file size
modifyTime: // file timestamp of modified time
accessTime: // file timestamp of access time
rights: {
    user:
    group:
    other:
},
owner: // user ID
group: // group ID

exists

return true if the path(file or directory) exists, false otherwise.

conn.sftp('exists', {path: remotePath})

createReadStream

download file from remote server

conn.sftp('createReadStream',  {
  path: remoteFilePath, 
  stream: localWriteStream, 
  option: option
})

for example:

conn.sftp('createReadStream', { 
  path: '/home/temp.gz', 
  stream: fs.createWriteStream('./local/temp.gz')
})

createWriteStream

upload file from local, data(stream | buffer | string)

conn.sftp('createWriteStream',  {
  path: remoteFilePath, 
  data: stream | buffer | string, 
  option: option
})

for example:

conn.sftp('createWriteStream', { 
  path: '/home/temp.gz', 
  data: fs.createReadStream('./local/temp.gz')
  //data: fs.readFileSync('./local/temp.gz')
  //data: 'some local data'
})

fastGet

download file from remote server

conn.sftp('fastGet', {remotePath: remotePath, localPath: localPath})

fastPut

upload local file to remote serer

conn.sftp('fastPut', {localPath: localPath, remotePath: remotePath})

readFile

download remote server file

conn.sftp('readFile', {path: remoteFilePath, option: option})

writeFile

upload file to remote server

conn.sftp('writeFile', {path: remoteFilePath, data: localFilePath, option: option})

appendFile

append local data to remote server file

conn.sftp('appendFile', {path: remoteFilePath, data: localData, option: option})

mkdir

create new directory recursively.

conn.sftp('mkdir', {path: remoteFilePath});

rmdir

remove the directory recursively.

conn.sftp('rmdir', {path: localPath});

unlink

delete file.

conn.sftp('delete', {path: remoteFilePath});

rename

rename remoteSourcePath to remoteDestPath (removes remoteSourcePath).

conn.sftp('rename', {oldPath: remoteSourcePath, newPath: remoteDestPath});

chmod

modify rights to remoteDestPath file

conn.sftp('chmod', {path: remoteDestPath,  mode: mode});

####connect

connection config you will see here

end

close the sftp connection. when you need it, you can call it in then() or catch().

conn.end();