Loading my own data into QC

Hi Bolt,

Like this:

class SquareVioletRhinoceros(QCAlgorithm):

    def Initialize(self):
        self.SetStartDate(2021, 7, 19)  # Set Start Date
        self.SetCash(100000)  # Set Strategy Cash
        # self.AddEquity("SPY", Resolution.Minute)
        
        contents = self.Download("ftp://MyFTPServer.com/portfolio.txt")
        
        # contents is a _string_ containing the entire portfolio.txt file


    def OnData(self, data):
        '''OnData event is the primary entry point for your algorithm. Each new data point will be pumped in here.
            Arguments:
                data: Slice object keyed by symbol containing the stock data
        '''

        # if not self.Portfolio.Invested:
        #    self.SetHoldings("SPY", 1)

Fred

Does ir work with sftp? Like this?:
sftp://my_login@my_server.com:22/home/my_login/file.csv ?

Bolt.Investments I doubt it supports sftp because it requires ssh and looking at the code it's simply using a WebRequest object.  One method signature does allow for username/password, so you can probably use basic http auth.

C# method sig from Lean

string Download(string address, IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>> headers, string userName, string password);

Hi,

You can also refer to the dupe here for the Python code to try (but it will fail with SFTP):

Fred

I found a solution!! It was very tricky! There is only one working syntaxis.

csv: str = self.Download(address="ftp://my_ftp_login:my_ftp_password@fmy_domen.com/my_folder/file.csv",
                                 headers={},
                                 userName="my_ftp_login",
                                 password="my_ftp_password")

You must specify my_ftp_login and my_ftp_password two times!! Because local backtesting  requires parameters

									headers={},
                  userName="my_ftp_login",
                  password="my_ftp_password")

But cloud backtesting understands only address= parameter!