adhocore/fast

A GO lang command line tool to check internet speed right from the terminal.

Uses fast.com through headless chrome.

Prerequistie

Chrome browser must be installed. chromedp will try to locate the chrome executable automatically from these paths.

If you get error regarding chrome availability, and you have chrome in custom path then check Troubleshooting.

Usage

Install fast:

go get -u github.com/adhocore/fast/cmd/fast
# or in recent go versions:
go install github.com/adhocore/fast/cmd/fast@v1.1.0

Finally, make sure $GOPATH or $HOME/go/bin is in your $PATH or %path%, then run:

fast

# if you just want download speed (pass -noup aka no upload speed)
fast -noup

Wait a while or Ctrl+C if you can't. That's all.

Screen

Troubleshooting

In MacOS, you can do something like this:

echo '#!/bin/sh\n\n/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome $@' > /usr/local/bin/chrome

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chrome

In WSL, you can symlink chrome from host WinOS like this: