SSH2 SFTP Client

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

Installation

npm install ssh2-sftp-client

Usage

let Client = require('ssh2-sftp-client');
let sftp = new Client();
sftp.connect({
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    port: '8080',
    username: 'username'
    password: '******'
}).then(() => {
    return sftp.list('/pathname');
}).then((data) => {
    console.log(data, 'the data info');
}).catch((err) => {
    console.log(err, 'catch error');
});

Documentation

the connection to server config pls see ssh2 client event.

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

List

Retrieves a directory listing.

sftp.list(romoteFilePath)

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

Get

get a new readable stream for path. The encoding is passed to Node Stream (https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html) and it controls how the content is encoded. For example, when downloading binary data, 'null' should be passed (check node stream documentation). Defaults to 'utf8'.

sftp.get(remoteFilePath, [useCompression], [encoding]);

Put

upload a file. it can be localPath or Buffer or Stream.

sftp.put(localFilePath, remoteFilePath, [useCompression], [encoding]);
sftp.put(Buffer, remoteFilePath, [useCompression], [encoding]);
sftp.put(Stream, remoteFilePath, [useCompression], [encoding]);

Mkdir

create a new directory.

// recursive default is false, if true, it will create directory recursive
sftp.mkdir(remoteFilePath, recursive);

Rmdir

remove the directory or file.

// recursive default is false, if true, it will remove directory recursive even if is not empty
sftp.rmdir(localPath, recursive);

Delete

delete file.

sftp.delete(remoteFilePath);

Rename

rename/remove remoteSourcePath to remoteDestPath.

sftp.remove(remoteSourcePath, remoteDestPath);

Connect

connection config you will see here

FAQ

Log

V1.2.0

- new feature: stat

V1.1.0

- fix: add encoding control support for binary stream

V1.0.5:

- fix: multi image upload
- change: remove `this.client.sftp` to `connect` function