How to use scp with recursion and file mask for multiple extensions?

Question

I'm trying to recursively download a directory, but only files with certain extensions from it, while also maintaining the directory structure.
The command I'm using now is
scp -rp user@address:"/path/to/directory/foo/*.{jpg,mp4}" ~/local/directory/foo/. Which a) requires me to create directory foo locally, and b) it only downloads files in the root directory (recursion doesn't work).
The command I used before this was scp -rp user@address:"/path/to/directory/foo" ~/local/directory/, which didn't have either of those problems, but downloads all the files I don't need as well.

Freddy · Answer

I don't think this is possible with scp. You can either copy all files recursively or selected file types non-recursively. Note that you don't need to escape the ..
But you could use rsync:
rsync -avm --include='*/' --include='*.jpg' --include='*.mp4' --exclude='*'
  user@address:/path/to/directory/foo ~/local/directory/

Options used:

-a archive mode
-v increase verbosity
-m prune empty directories
--include='*/' include subdirectories
--include='*.jpg' include *.jpg files
--include='*.mp4' include *.mp4 files
--exclude='*' exclude other file types

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