In this article we are going to see how we can use speedtest-cli.

What is speedtest-cli?

speedtest-cli is a CLI utilities for network speed test in ubuntu.

Why youtube-dl?

  • To know download speed
  • To know upload speed
  • To know latency/ping time to nearest server
  • To use all of these in CLI

Installation

  • Install via APT

       sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install speedtest-cli -y

  • pip / easy_install

       pip install speedtest-cli

  • Manually installation

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

Example

  • How to know speed test ? Just type speedtest in commandline

test

More Options

There are more CLI options, here is the whole list.

usage: speedtest [-h] [--no-download] [--no-upload] [--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]


optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --no-download         Do not perform download test
  --no-upload           Do not perform upload test
  --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