Update app.R

app.R

@@ -2369,10 +2369,21 @@ removeModal()
   
   # Scrape button
   observeEvent(input$scrape_btn, {
-    if (input$start_date > input$end_date) {
-      scrape_status_msg("Error: Start date must be before end date.")
-      return()
-    }
+  scrape_status_msg("Testing FTP connection...")
+  
+  result <- tryCatch({
+    ftp_url <- paste0("ftp://", Sys.getenv("FTP_USERNAME"), ":", 
+                      Sys.getenv("FTP_PASSWORD"), 
+                      "@ftp.trackmanbaseball.com/v3/2025/04/01/CSV/")
+    file_list <- RCurl::getURL(ftp_url, ftp.use.epsv = FALSE, 
+                               dirlistonly = TRUE, connecttimeout = 10)
+    paste("Connected! Files found:", nchar(file_list), "chars")
+  }, error = function(e) {
+    paste("FTP failed:", e$message)
+  })
+  
+  scrape_status_msg(result)
+})
     
     n_days <- as.numeric(input$end_date - input$start_date) + 1
     scrape_status_msg(paste0("Scraping ", n_days, " day(s)... please wait."))