Welcome to using Perl! Here is a basic example of using the Net::FTP module getting a list of files (in the example, they are .xml files). The program logs in, changes to a directory called bulk_download, gets the list of files, and then ftps them. At the end, it says how many files were fetched. Hope this helps! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use Net::FTP;                                # use the ftp module
use strict;
 
my (@filelist, $file, $ftp, $ftp_count);
 
my $host = 'your ip address';
my $user = 'username';                       # user name for login
my $pass = 'password';                       # password for login
 
$ftp_count = 0;
$ftp = Net::FTP->new($host, Debug => 0);     # start an FTP session
$ftp->login($user,$pass);                    # login
$ftp->cwd("bulk_download");                  # go to the bulk_dowload 
+directory
$ftp->binary;                                # make sure we ftp the fi
+le as binary
@filelist = $ftp->ls("*.xml");               # and get the list of .xm
+l files
  foreach $file (@filelist){
      $ftp->get($file);                      # fetch it,
      ++$ftp_count;
     }
$ftp->quit;
print "For $host found $ftp_count files\n";

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In reply to Re: connecting to ftp sites and download certain files based on file extensions by odha57
in thread connecting to ftp sites and download certain files based on file extensions by Anonymous Monk

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