Developing Code That Performs Internet Speed Tests with Python

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In this article, I will tell you how you can easily write the code that writes internet speed measurement using the Python programming language. For this I need to install a library on a linux system. The best option for this would be to install the speedtest-cli library. You can complete the installation as follows. You can visit the github repo to get more information from speedtest-cli library.

pip install speedtest-cli

Let’s start now. Simple example that shows the download and upload speed in Megabits per second (Mbps):

import speedtest

st = speedtest.Speedtest()

download = st.download()
upload = st.upload()

print(f"Download speed: {download:.2f} Mbps")
print(f"Upload speed: {upload:.2f} Mbps")

To get the time-out value, you can use the .timed_out attribute of the Speedtest object. Here is an example:

import speedtest

st = speedtest.Speedtest()

timeout = st.timed_out

print(f"Timed out: {timeout}")

Happy New Year — 2023

In this article, I have told you how you can calculate internet speed in detail using the python programming language. Take care and see you in my next post.