Quickly download all files from a link on NCBI.

wgetforftp.py

import wget
from urllib.error import HTTPError
url = 'https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/repository/dbEST/dbEST.reports.000000.'

for x in range(2, 6):
  fullurl = url + str(x) + '.gz'
  print(fullurl) 
  try:
    wget.download(url, '/Users/satk/fasta/')
  except HTTPError as err:
    if err.code == 404:
      print(fullurl + "doesn't exist")
    else:
      print(err)