<p>You can use the mirroring function of wget:</p>

<pre><code>wget -m ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-91/embl/bos_taurus/
</code></pre>

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2018-01-27T16:46:26.133Z
2018-01-27T16:46:26.133Z
Michael Kuhn
<p>I am interested in downloading all the files at:</p>

<p><a href="ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-91/embl/bos_taurus/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-91/embl/bos_taurus/</a></p>

<p>I know how to download a single file from that page using wget (Unix) or download.file() (R) but is there an easy way of downloading all of them?</p>

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How to download the whole directory of an ensembl FTP page?
# How to download the whole directory of an ensembl FTP page?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-01-27)

I am interested in downloading all the files at:

<ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-91/embl/bos_taurus/>

I know how to download a single file from that page using wget (Unix) or download.file() (R) but is there an easy way of downloading all of them?

**Tags:** ensembl, data-download

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-01-27. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

You can use the mirroring function of wget:
wget -m ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-91/embl/bos_taurus/


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