Don't have a GUI but want to use LibreSpeed servers to test your Internet speed? š
librespeed-cli
comes to rescue!
This is a command line interface for LibreSpeed speed test backends, written in Go.
If you don't want to build librespeed-cli
yourself, you can find different binaries compiled for various platforms in
the releases page.
librespeed-cli
First, you'll have to install Go (at least version 1.11). For Windows users, you can download an installer from golang.org. For Linux users, you can use either the archive from golang.org, or install from your distribution's package manager.
For example, Arch Linux:
# pacman -S go
Then, clone the repository:
$ git clone -b v1.0.0 https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest-cli
After you have Go installed on your system (and added to your $PATH
if you're using the archive from golang.org), you
can now proceed to build librespeed-cli
with the build script:
$ cd speedtest-cli
$ ./build.sh
If you want to build for another operating system or system architecture, use the GOOS
and GOARCH
environment
variables. Run go tool dist list
to get a list of possible combinations of GOOS
and GOARCH
.
Note: Technically, the CLI can be compiled with older Go versions that support Go modules, with GO111MODULE=on
set. If you're compiling with an older Go runtime, you might have to change the Go version in go.mod
.
# Let's say we're building for 64-bit Windows on Linux
$ GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 ./build.sh
When the build script finishes, if everything went smoothly, you can find the built binary under directory out
.
$ ls out
librespeed-cli-windows-amd64.exe
Now you can use the librespeed-cli
and test your Internet speed!
To install librespeed-cli
from AUR, use your favorite AUR helper and install package librespeed-cli-bin
$ yay librespeed-cli-bin
... or, clone it and build it yourself:
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/librespeed-cli-bin.git
$ cd librespeed-cli-bin
$ makepkg -si
See the librespeed-cli Homebrew tap.
If you have either Scoop or Chocolatey installed you can use one of the following commands:
Scoop (ensure you have the extras
bucket added):
> scoop install librespeed-cli
Chocolatey:
> choco install librespeed-cli
You can run librespeed-cli
in a container.
Build the container image:
docker build -t librespeed-cli:latest .
Run the container:
docker run --rm --name librespeed-cli librespeed-cli:latest
# With options
docker run --rm --name librespeed-cli librespeed-cli:latest --telemetry-level disabled --no-upload
# To avoid "Failed to ping target host: socket: permission denied" errors when using --verbose
docker run --rm --name librespeed-cli --sysctl net.ipv4.ping_group_range="0 2147483647" librespeed-cli:latest --verbose
You can see the full list of supported options with librespeed-cli -h
:
$ librespeed-cli -h
NAME:
librespeed-cli - Test your Internet speed with LibreSpeed š
USAGE:
librespeed-cli [global options] [arguments...]
GLOBAL OPTIONS:
--help, -h show help (default: false)
--version Show the version number and exit (default: false)
--ipv4, -4 Force IPv4 only (default: false)
--ipv6, -6 Force IPv6 only (default: false)
--no-download Do not perform download test (default: false)
--no-upload Do not perform upload test (default: false)
--no-icmp Do not use ICMP ping. ICMP doesn't work well under Linux
at this moment, so you might want to disable it (default: false)
--concurrent value Concurrent HTTP requests being made (default: 3)
--bytes Display values in bytes instead of bits. Does not affect
the image generated by --share, nor output from
--json or --csv (default: false)
--mebibytes Use 1024 bytes as 1 kilobyte instead of 1000 (default: false)
--distance value Change distance unit shown in ISP info, use 'mi' for miles,
'km' for kilometres, 'NM' for nautical miles (default: "km")
--share Generate and provide a URL to the LibreSpeed.org share results
image, not displayed with --csv (default: false)
--simple Suppress verbose output, only show basic information
(default: false)
--csv Suppress verbose output, only show basic information in CSV
format. Speeds listed in bit/s and not affected by --bytes
(default: false)
--csv-delimiter CSV_DELIMITER Single character delimiter (CSV_DELIMITER) to use in
CSV output. (default: ",")
--csv-header Print CSV headers (default: false)
--json Suppress verbose output, only show basic information
in JSON format. Speeds listed in bit/s and not
affected by --bytes (default: false)
--list Display a list of LibreSpeed.org servers (default: false)
--server SERVER Specify a SERVER ID to test against. Can be supplied
multiple times. Cannot be used with --exclude
--exclude EXCLUDE EXCLUDE a server from selection. Can be supplied
multiple times. Cannot be used with --server
--server-json value Use an alternative server list from remote JSON file
--local-json value Use an alternative server list from local JSON file,
or read from stdin with "--local-json -".
--source SOURCE SOURCE IP address to bind to. Incompatible with --interface.
--interface INTERFACE The name of the network interface to bind to. Example: "enp0s3".
Not supported on Windows and incompatible with --source.
Implies --no-icmp.
--timeout TIMEOUT HTTP TIMEOUT in seconds. (default: 15)
--duration value Upload and download test duration in seconds (default: 15)
--chunks value Chunks to download from server, chunk size depends on server configuration (default: 100)
--upload-size value Size of payload being uploaded in KiB (default: 1024)
--secure Use HTTPS instead of HTTP when communicating with
LibreSpeed.org operated servers (default: false)
--ca-cert value Use the specified CA certificate PEM bundle file instead
of the system certificate trust store
--skip-cert-verify Skip verifying SSL certificate for HTTPS connections (self-signed certs) (default: false)
--no-pre-allocate Do not pre allocate upload data. Pre allocation is
enabled by default to improve upload performance. To
support systems with insufficient memory, use this
option to avoid out of memory errors (default: false)
--telemetry-json value Load telemetry server settings from a JSON file. This
options overrides --telemetry-level, --telemetry-server,
--telemetry-path, and --telemetry-share. Implies --share
--telemetry-level value Set telemetry data verbosity, available values are:
disabled, basic, full, debug. Implies --share
--telemetry-server value Set the telemetry server base URL. Implies --share
--telemetry-path value Set the telemetry upload path. Implies --share
--telemetry-share value Set the telemetry share link path. Implies --share
--telemetry-extra value Send a custom message along with the telemetry results.
Implies --share
The librespeed-cli
supports loading custom backend server list from a JSON file (remotely via --server-json
or
locally via --local-json
). The format is as below:
[
{
"id": 1,
"name": "PHP Backend",
"server": "https://example.com/",
"dlURL": "garbage.php",
"ulURL": "empty.php",
"pingURL": "empty.php",
"getIpURL": "getIP.php"
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Go Backend",
"server": "http://example.com/speedtest/",
"dlURL": "garbage",
"ulURL": "empty",
"pingURL": "empty",
"getIpURL": "getIP"
}
]
The --local-json
option can also read from stdin
:
echo '[{"id": 1,"name": "a","server": "https://speedtest.example.com/","dlURL": "garbage.php","ulURL": "empty.php","pingURL": "empty.php","getIpURL": "getIP.php"}]' | librespeed-cli --local-json -
As you can see in the example, all servers have their schemes defined. In case of undefined scheme (e.g. //example.com
),
librespeed-cli
will use http
by default, or https
when the --secure
option is enabled.
By default, the telemetry result will be sent to librespeed.org
. You can also customize your telemetry settings
via the --telemetry
prefixed options. In order to load a custom telemetry endpoint configuration, you'll have to use the
--telemetry-json
option to specify a local JSON file containing the configuration bits. The format is as below:
{
"telemetryLevel": "full",
"server": "https://example.com",
"path": "/results/telemetry.php",
"shareURL": "/results/"
}
For telemetryLevel
, four values are available:
disabled
to disable telemetrybasic
to enable telemetry with result only)full
to enable telemetry with result and timingdebug
to enable the most verbose telemetry informationserver
defines the base URL for the backend's endpoints. path
is the path for uploading the telemetry result, and
shareURL
is the path for fetching the uploaded result in PNG format.
Currently, --telemetry-json
only supports loading a local JSON file.
Although we have tested the cli, it's still in its early days. Please open an issue if you encounter any bugs, or even better, submit a PR.
If you have some good ideas on improving librespeed-cli
, you can always submit a PR via GitHub.
librespeed-cli
is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0