Speedtest CLI tests via CRON as .csv

• Author: Ryan Fitton <[email protected]>
• Version: 1.0.0
• Date: 21/01/2019

Requirements

• Python (python-pip)
• speedtest-cli (Repo)
• speedtest-csv (Repo)

Installation

1. Switch to the root user:

sudo su

2. Install speedtest-cli, run each line separately:

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install speedtest-cli

3. Download the speedtest-csv script. Note: A copy of this script is already stored in this repo, you can use this or re-download and make the changes to the file mentioned in step 5.

sudo wget -O speedtest-csv https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HenrikBengtsson/speedtest-cli-extras/master/bin/speedtest-csv

4. Now give the file execute permissions:

sudo chmod +x speedtest-csv

5. You will need to edit a line in the file to so that it can be run from CRON:

sudo nano speedtest-csv

Find the line cmd="speedtest-cli $opts and add /usr/local/bin/ before it so it reads:

cmd="/usr/local/bin/speedtest-cli $opts"

save the file and exit.

6. Next move speedtest-csv to /usr/bin/:

sudo mv speedtest-csv /usr/bin/

7. Generate the CSV header:

sudo speedtest-csv --header >> /cron/speedtest/speedtest.csv

8. Add to the CRON:

sudo crontab -e

9. Add the following line to the end of the file, this example is daily, ever four hours:

0 */4 * * * speedtest-csv >> /cron/speedtest/speedtest.csv

save the file and exit.