- Head over to developer.bitping.com to create your free account
- Create your API key in the developer dashboard
- Set the API Key environment variable
- eg.
export BITPING_API_KEY=your_api_key
- eg.
With your API key in hand, you'll be ready to ping from anywhere in the world!
You can install bping directly using this command:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/BitpingApp/bping/releases/latest/download/bping-installer.sh | sh
brew install BitpingApp/tap/bping
You can install bping on Windows by running this command in PowerShell:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://github.com/BitpingApp/bping/releases/latest/download/bping-installer.ps1 | iex"Go to the latest release and download the .msi for windows.
A command line utility to ping a website from anywhere in the world!
Usage: bping [-r=<regions>] [-c=<count>] [-a=<attempts>] [--concurrency=<concurrency>] --api-key=
<api_key> [--residential=<residential>] [--mobile=<mobile>] [--proxy=<proxy>] <endpoint>
Available positional items:
<endpoint> Specifies the endpoint (without http://) to ping. eg. bitping.com
Available options:
-r, --regions=<regions> Specifies the ISO 3166-1 country codes (alpha-2 or alpha-2) & continent
names to send jobs to. Defaults to Anywhere.
(eg. bping -r "AU,CHN,North America" bitping.com)
-c, --count=<count> Specifies the number of ICMP packets to send per country. Defaults to
3.
-a, --attempts=<attempts> Specifies the number of ping attempts per country. Defaults to 1.
--concurrency=<concurrency> Specifies how many concurrent requests to send at once.
Defaults to 100.
--api-key=<api_key> Specifies the API key for authentication. Can also be set using the
BITPING_API_KEY environment variable.
[env:BITPING_API_KEY: N/A]
--residential=<residential> Control residential network usage. --residential=true to
require, --residential=false to deny, omit to allow.
--mobile=<mobile> Control mobile network usage. --mobile=true to require, --mobile=false
to deny, omit to allow.
--proxy=<proxy> Control proxy network usage. --proxy=true to require, --proxy=false to
deny, omit to allow.
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information