A python script that can be run as a cronjob to test internet speed and post it to a web.py server.
Clone this repository. Make sure to keep all the files in one folder.
Modify the resultsfile
varible in filepath.py
to the absolute path of your desired results file
resultsfile = "/path/to/your/file.csv"
All the dependencies are included in the folder except for web.py. Install the web.py python library using pip or your operating system's package manager
python -m pip install web.py
or
sudo apt-get install python-webpy
etc.
Create a shell script for pyspeedtest_task.py
and set as a cronjob.
Create a shell script for pyspeedtest_webserver.py
and set to run on startup.
Speedtest results are hosted on an HTTP webserver:
http://[YOUR_MACHINE_IP_HERE]:8080/speedtest
speedtest.py is used in its unmodified form from the speedtest-cli project: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli speedtest-cli is released under an Apache-2.0 software license, which is provided in Apache-License.txt