Mauritius Internet Speed Test

The aim of this project is to provide a simple python script to make several speedtests using the Speedtest-cli from Ookla and then return the result as a JSON file.

This script is currently being used to fetch data for the project below:

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Data Source

The data source is in the following format:

// file: all-servers.json
{
    "LION": "<SpeedtestResult>",
    "SAFE1": "<SpeedtestResult>",
    "SAFE2": "<SpeedtestResult>",
    "SAFE3": "<SpeedtestResult>",
    "MARS": "<SpeedtestResult>"
}
// Where Speedtest result has the following signature
Interface SpeedtestResult {
    "timestamp": "",
    "upload": "",
    "download": "",
    "ping": ""
}

Project Dependencies

• Python 3
• Official Speedtest-cli from Ookla

Project setup

• Fork this repo to your account

• Git clone the fork to your local machine

• Having cloned the repo, change the path of the project directory accordingly in the config.json script.

{
  "projectPath": "{insert path here}"
}

• Just run the script or run the binary to make speedtests and gather results.

python3 speedtest.py

OR

./speedtest-binary

• Change the speed test server codes to the ones you want in /data/servers.json

{
  "LION": { "madagascar": 7755 },
  "SAFE": { "india": 24682, "south_africa": 1285, "malaysia": 12544 },
  "MARS": { "rodrigues": 27454 }
}

• You can get a list of nearby speed test servers and their codes by running the command below:

speedtest --servers