Measure the download speed by downloading an HTTP test file from a predefined list of locations or specify your own using the -u parameter (it must be an HTTP url). The script only supports HTTP url's. Optionally with the -c parameter the test can be run multiple times and calculate the average download speed, and save the results to a file with CSV format (-o parameter).
- numpy
- requests
- statistics
usage: download-tester [-h] [-c COUNT]
[-l {usw,use,tokyo,washington,sanjose,london}]
[-o OUTFILE] [-s] [-u URL]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c COUNT, --count COUNT
Number of downloads to do. Default: 1
-l {usw,use,tokyo,washington,sanjose,london}, --location {usw,use,tokyo,washington,sanjose,london}
Server location for the test. Default: use
-o OUTFILE, --outfile OUTFILE
Destination file for test results in CSV format
-s, --silent Don't print verbose output from the download process
-u URL, --url URL Alternate download URL (it must include path and
Run with no arguments and use default download location:
python download-tester
Use custom download url:
python download-tester -u http://yourserver.com/file.zip
Save results to a CSV file:
python download-tester -o results.csv
Sample CSV output:
Date,URL,Size (MB),Min (MB/s),Min (Mbps),Max (MB/s),Max (Mbps),Average (MB/s),Average (Mbps),Median (MB/sec),Median (Mbps)
Mon Jul 10 00:14:59 2017,http://speedtest.tokyo.linode.com/100MB-tokyo.bin,100.0,1.29,1.29,1.33,10.62,1.31,1.31,1.31,10.49
Sample#,File Size,Average Speed (MB/sec),Average Throughput (Mbps)
1,100.0,1.31,10.49
2,100.0,1.31,10.49
3,100.0,1.29,10.36
4,100.0,1.31,10.49
5,100.0,1.33,10.62