Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net

speedtest-cli works with Python 2.4-3.7

pip install speedtest-cli

or

easy_install speedtest-cli

pip install git+https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli.git

or

git clone https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli.git
cd speedtest-cli
python setup.py install

wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py
chmod +x speedtest-cli

or

curl -Lo speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py
chmod +x speedtest-cli

$ speedtest-cli -h
usage: speedtest-cli [-h] [--no-download] [--no-upload] [--single] [--bytes]
 [--share] [--simple] [--csv]
 [--csv-delimiter CSV_DELIMITER] [--csv-header] [--json]
 [--list] [--server SERVER] [--exclude EXCLUDE]
 [--mini MINI] [--source SOURCE] [--timeout TIMEOUT]
 [--secure] [--no-pre-allocate] [--version]
Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli
optional arguments:
 -h, --help show this help message and exit
 --no-download Do not perform download test
 --no-upload Do not perform upload test
 --single Only use a single connection instead of multiple. This
 simulates a typical file transfer.
 --bytes Display values in bytes instead of bits. Does not
 affect the image generated by --share, nor output from
 --json or --csv
 --share Generate and provide a URL to the speedtest.net share
 results image, not displayed with --csv
 --simple Suppress verbose output, only show basic information
 --csv Suppress verbose output, only show basic information
 in CSV format. Speeds listed in bit/s and not affected
 by --bytes
 --csv-delimiter CSV_DELIMITER
 Single character delimiter to use in CSV output.
 Default ","
 --csv-header Print CSV headers
 --json Suppress verbose output, only show basic information
 in JSON format. Speeds listed in bit/s and not
 affected by --bytes
 --list Display a list of speedtest.net servers sorted by
 distance
 --server SERVER Specify a server ID to test against. Can be supplied
 multiple times
 --exclude EXCLUDE Exclude a server from selection. Can be supplied
 multiple times
 --mini MINI URL of the Speedtest Mini server
 --source SOURCE Source IP address to bind to
 --timeout TIMEOUT HTTP timeout in seconds. Default 10
 --secure Use HTTPS instead of HTTP when communicating with
 speedtest.net operated servers
 --no-pre-allocate Do not pre allocate upload data. Pre allocation is
 enabled by default to improve upload performance. To
 support systems with insufficient memory, use this
 option to avoid a MemoryError
 --version Show the version number and exit

See the wiki.

It is not a goal of this application to be a reliable latency reporting tool.

Latency reported by this tool should not be relied on as a value indicative of ICMP style latency. It is a relative value used for determining the lowest latency server for performing the actual speed test against.

There is the potential for this tool to report results inconsistent with Speedtest.net. There are several concepts to be aware of that factor into the potential inconsistency:

1. Speedtest.net has migrated to using pure socket tests instead of HTTP based tests
2. This application is written in Python
3. Different versions of Python will execute certain parts of the code faster than others
4. CPU and Memory capacity and speed will play a large part in inconsistency between Speedtest.net and even other machines on the same network

Issues relating to inconsistencies will be closed as wontfix and without additional reason or context.