Inventory Sync: FTP URL Format
Inventory Sync supports downloading files from the following types of servers:
- Plain-text FTP
- FTP with implicit SSL/TLS
- FTP with explicit SSL/TLS
- SFTP
The type of connection is determined by the very start of the URL:
# Plain-text FTP
ftp://user:password@example.com/file.csv
# FTP with implicit SSL (FTPS)
ftps://user:password@example.com/file.csv
# FTP with explicit SSL (FTPS)
ftp+ssl://user:password@example.com/file.csv
# SFTP
sftp://user:password@example.com/file.csv
Ports
If you need to define a non-standard port for the FTP server you can add it after the hostname of the URL. For example, to connect over port 2121:
ftp://user:password@example.com:2121/file.csv
Wildcards
If you have a file name that changes every day you can use a wildcard in the filename. For example:
ftp://user:password@example.com/feed/Inventory*.csv
The above URL will download the most recent file in the "feed/" directory that matches the pattern "Inventory*.csv".