Answers.Body: <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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Body: <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>
  
Tags: <ensembl><data-download>
Title: How to download the whole directory of an ensembl FTP page?
ThreadText: # 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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