Test Internet Speed using Python

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

once the installation is completed successfully, do ensure with the version check using the following command.

speedtest-cli --version

You should see something like this in your terminal.

With the installation of the speedtest-cli module now we can simply test the speed of the internet by the following command.

speedtest-cli

You should see something like this in your terminal.

As the above screenshot shows the test is done in MegaBit. We can easily test in bytes by using the following command.

speedtest-cli --bytes

We even can get a sharable link of the internet speed test using the following command.

speedtest-cli --share

We should now paste the URL to the browser and a screenshot of the result will arise like below.

We can even preview only the basic aspects of the test i.e. PING, DOWNLOAD, and UPLOAD using the following command.

speedtest-cli --simple

Besides all the test stuff, we can check all the available offerings from the command below.

speedtest-cli -h

In addition to that, we can look for help when need using the following command.

speedtest-cli --help