Recursive directory download with Paramiko?

Question

I want to download a directory with unknown contents recursively via SSH and have been trying Paramiko. I have seen several examples how to upload directories but none that

Answer 1

Paramiko does not support recursive operations.

You can use pysftp. It's a wrapper around Paramiko that has more Python-ish look and feel and supports recursive operations. See

• pysftp.Connection.put_r()
• pysftp.Connection.get_r()

Or you can just base your code on pysftp source code. Or see my answer to Python pysftp get_r from Linux works fine on Linux but not on Windows.