Get file name from FTP Server

phantom2000 

Tried it myself, used the $ftprequest.Method=[system.net.WebRequestMethods+ftp]::ListDirectoryDetails to get timestamps but not easy to parse those. Then I read a post (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40845688/download-most-recent-file-from-ftp-using-powershell) about using WinSCP as client which gives you more options. Also a link below in the same article with even more  code  https://winscp.net/eng/docs/script_download_most_recent_file 

# Load WinSCP .NET assembly
Add-Type -Path "WinSCPnet.dll"

# Setup session options
$sessionOptions = New-Object WinSCP.SessionOptions -Property @{
    Protocol = [WinSCP.Protocol]::Ftp
    HostName = "example.com"
    UserName = "user"
    Password = "mypassword"
}

$session = New-Object WinSCP.Session

# Connect
$session.Open($sessionOptions)

# Get list of files in the directory
$directoryInfo = $session.ListDirectory($remotePath)

# Select the most recent file
$latest =
    $directoryInfo.Files |
    Where-Object { -Not $_.IsDirectory } |
    Sort-Object LastWriteTime -Descending |
    Select-Object -First 1

# Any file at all?
if ($latest -eq $Null)
{
    Write-Host "No file found"
    exit 1
}

# Download the selected file
$sourcePath = [WinSCP.RemotePath]::EscapeFileMask($remotePath + $latest.Name)
$session.GetFiles($sourcePath, $localPath).Check()

This piece of code was written by the author of WinSCP (Martin Prikryl ) , so I know it's good 🙂