Get upload/download kbps speed
Question:
I’m using the library called psutil to get system/network stats, but I can only get the total uploaded/downloaded bytes on my script.
What would be the way to natively get the network speed using Python?
Answers:
The (effective) network speed is simply bytes transferred in a given time interval, divided by the length of the interval. Obviously there are different ways to aggregate / average the times and they give you different “measures” … but it all basically boils down to division.
If you need to know the transfer rate immediately, you should create a thread that does the calculations continuously. I’m not an expert on the subject, but I tried writing a simple program that does what you need:
import threading
import time
from collections import deque
import psutil
def calc_ul_dl(rate, dt=3, interface="WiFi"):
t0 = time.time()
counter = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)[interface]
tot = (counter.bytes_sent, counter.bytes_recv)
while True:
last_tot = tot
time.sleep(dt)
counter = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)[interface]
t1 = time.time()
tot = (counter.bytes_sent, counter.bytes_recv)
ul, dl = [
(now - last) / (t1 - t0) / 1000.0
for now, last in zip(tot, last_tot)
]
rate.append((ul, dl))
t0 = time.time()
def print_rate(rate):
try:
print("UL: {0:.0f} kB/s / DL: {1:.0f} kB/s".format(*rate[-1]))
except IndexError:
"UL: - kB/s/ DL: - kB/s"
# Create the ul/dl thread and a deque of length 1 to hold the ul/dl- values
transfer_rate = deque(maxlen=1)
t = threading.Thread(target=calc_ul_dl, args=(transfer_rate,))
# The program will exit if there are only daemonic threads left.
t.daemon = True
t.start()
# The rest of your program, emulated by me using a while True loop
while True:
print_rate(transfer_rate)
time.sleep(5)
Here you should set the dt argument to whatever seams reasonable for you. I tried using 3 seconds, and this is my output while runnning an online speedtest:
UL: 2 kB/s / DL: 8 kB/s
UL: 3 kB/s / DL: 45 kB/s
UL: 24 kB/s / DL: 1306 kB/s
UL: 79 kB/s / DL: 4 kB/s
UL: 121 kB/s / DL: 3 kB/s
UL: 116 kB/s / DL: 4 kB/s
UL: 0 kB/s / DL: 0 kB/s
The values seems reasonable since my result from the speedtest were DL: 1258 kB/s and UL: 111 kB/s.
The answer provided by Steinar Lima is correct.
But it can be done without threading also:
import time
import psutil
import os
count = 0
qry = ""
ul = 0.00
dl = 0.00
t0 = time.time()
upload = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)["Wireless Network Connection"][0]
download = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)["Wireless Network Connection"][1]
up_down = (upload, download)
while True:
last_up_down = up_down
upload = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)["Wireless Network Connection"][0]
download = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)["Wireless Network Connection"][1]
t1 = time.time()
up_down = (upload, download)
try:
ul, dl = [
(now - last) / (t1 - t0) / 1024.0
for now, last in zip(up_down, last_up_down)
]
t0 = time.time()
except:
pass
if dl > 0.1 or ul >= 0.1:
time.sleep(0.75)
os.system("cls")
print("UL: {:0.2f} kB/s n".format(ul) + "DL: {:0.2f} kB/s".format(dl))
v = input()
Simple and easy 😉
The first answer in interface should be change to desired network adapter. To see the name in ubuntu you can use ifconfig, then change interface='wifi' to the device name.
a little change to formatting in python3
def print_rate(rate):
try:
print(('UL: {0:.0f} kB/s / DL: {1:.0f} kB/s').format(*rate[-1]))
except IndexError:
'UL: - kB/s/ DL: - kB/s'
I added an LCD mod for this code if you want to test it on a raspberry pi but you need to add the psutil and the lcddriver to your project code!!!!
import time
import psutil
import os
import lcddriver
count=0
qry=''
ul=0.00
dl=0.00
t0 = time.time()
upload=psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)['wlan0'][0]
download=psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)['wlan0'][1]
up_down=(upload,download)
display = lcddriver.lcd()
while True:
last_up_down = up_down
upload=psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)['wlan0'][0]
download=psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)['wlan0'][1]
t1 = time.time()
up_down = (upload,download)
try:
ul, dl = [(now - last) / (t1 - t0) / 1024.0
for now,last in zip(up_down, last_up_down)]
t0 = time.time()
#display.lcd_display_string(str(datetime.datetime.now().time()), 1)
except:
pass
if dl>0.1 or ul>=0.1:
time.sleep(0.75)
os.system('cls')
print('UL: {:0.2f} kB/s n'.format(ul)+'DL:{:0.2f} kB/s'.format(dl))
display.lcd_display_string(str('DL:{:0.2f} KB/s '.format(dl)), 1)
display.lcd_display_string(str('UL:{:0.2f} KB/s '.format(ul)), 2)
# if KeyboardInterrupt: # If there is a KeyboardInterrupt (when you press ctrl+c), exit the program and cleanup
# print("Cleaning up!")
# display.lcd_clear()
v=input()
Another and more simple solution (without threading and queues although still based on @Steinar Lima) and for more recent python:
import time
import psutil
def on_calculate_speed(self, interface):
dt = 1 # I find that dt = 1 is good enough
t0 = time.time()
try:
counter = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)[interface]
except KeyError:
return []
tot = (counter.bytes_sent, counter.bytes_recv)
while True:
last_tot = tot
time.sleep(dt)
try:
counter = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)[interface]
except KeyError:
break
t1 = time.time()
tot = (counter.bytes_sent, counter.bytes_recv)
ul, dl = [
(now - last) / (t1 - t0) / 1000.0
for now, last
in zip(tot, last_tot)
]
return [int(ul), int(dl)]
t0 = time.time()
while SomeCondition:
# "wlp2s0" is usually the default wifi interface for linux, but you
# could use any other interface that you want/have.
interface = "wlp2s0"
result_speed = on_calculate_speed(interface)
if len(result_speed) < 1:
print("Upload: - kB/s/ Download: - kB/s")
else:
ul, dl = result_speed[0], result_speed[1]
print("Upload: {} kB/s / Download: {} kB/s".format(ul, dl))
Or you could also fetch the default interface with pyroute2:
while SomeCondition:
ip = IPDB()
interface = ip.interfaces[ip.routes['default']['oif']]["ifname"]
result_speed = on_calculate_speed(interface)
if len(result_speed) < 1:
print("Upload: - kB/s/ Download: - kB/s")
else:
ul, dl = result_speed[0], result_speed[1]
print("Upload: {} kB/s / Download: {} kB/s".format(ul, dl))
ip.release()
i found this tread, and dont have any idea from python, i jst copy and paste codes, and now need a little help, this script, i have jst show the total of bytes send/recived, can modify to show the actual speed?
def network(iface):
stat = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)[iface]
return "%s: Tx%s, Rx%s" %
(iface, bytes2human(stat.bytes_sent), bytes2human(stat.bytes_recv))
def stats(device):
# use custom font
font_path = str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.joinpath('fonts', 'C&C Red Alert [INET].ttf'))
font_path2 = str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.joinpath('fonts', 'Stockholm.ttf'))
font2 = ImageFont.truetype(font_path, 12)
font3 = ImageFont.truetype(font_path2, 11)
with canvas(device) as draw:
draw.text((0, 0), cpu_usage(), font=font2, fill="white")
if device.height >= 32:
draw.text((0, 14), mem_usage(), font=font2, fill="white")
if device.height >= 64:
draw.text((0, 26), "IP: " + getIP("eth0"), font=font2, fill=255)
try:
draw.text((0, 38), network('eth0'), font=font2, fill="white")
except KeyError:
# no wifi enabled/available
pass
The code
# pip install speedtest-cli
import speedtest
speed_test = speedtest.Speedtest()
def bytes_to_mb(bytes):
KB = 1024 # One Kilobyte is 1024 bytes
MB = KB * 1024 # One MB is 1024 KB
return int(bytes/MB)
download_speed = bytes_to_mb(speed_test.download())
print("Your Download speed is", download_speed, "MB")
upload_speed = bytes_to_mb(speed_test.upload())
print("Your Upload speed is", upload_speed, "MB")
I’m using the library called psutil to get system/network stats, but I can only get the total uploaded/downloaded bytes on my script.
What would be the way to natively get the network speed using Python?
The (effective) network speed is simply bytes transferred in a given time interval, divided by the length of the interval. Obviously there are different ways to aggregate / average the times and they give you different “measures” … but it all basically boils down to division.
If you need to know the transfer rate immediately, you should create a thread that does the calculations continuously. I’m not an expert on the subject, but I tried writing a simple program that does what you need:
import threading
import time
from collections import deque
import psutil
def calc_ul_dl(rate, dt=3, interface="WiFi"):
t0 = time.time()
counter = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)[interface]
tot = (counter.bytes_sent, counter.bytes_recv)
while True:
last_tot = tot
time.sleep(dt)
counter = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)[interface]
t1 = time.time()
tot = (counter.bytes_sent, counter.bytes_recv)
ul, dl = [
(now - last) / (t1 - t0) / 1000.0
for now, last in zip(tot, last_tot)
]
rate.append((ul, dl))
t0 = time.time()
def print_rate(rate):
try:
print("UL: {0:.0f} kB/s / DL: {1:.0f} kB/s".format(*rate[-1]))
except IndexError:
"UL: - kB/s/ DL: - kB/s"
# Create the ul/dl thread and a deque of length 1 to hold the ul/dl- values
transfer_rate = deque(maxlen=1)
t = threading.Thread(target=calc_ul_dl, args=(transfer_rate,))
# The program will exit if there are only daemonic threads left.
t.daemon = True
t.start()
# The rest of your program, emulated by me using a while True loop
while True:
print_rate(transfer_rate)
time.sleep(5)
Here you should set the dt argument to whatever seams reasonable for you. I tried using 3 seconds, and this is my output while runnning an online speedtest:
UL: 2 kB/s / DL: 8 kB/s
UL: 3 kB/s / DL: 45 kB/s
UL: 24 kB/s / DL: 1306 kB/s
UL: 79 kB/s / DL: 4 kB/s
UL: 121 kB/s / DL: 3 kB/s
UL: 116 kB/s / DL: 4 kB/s
UL: 0 kB/s / DL: 0 kB/s
The values seems reasonable since my result from the speedtest were DL: 1258 kB/s and UL: 111 kB/s.
The answer provided by Steinar Lima is correct.
But it can be done without threading also:
import time
import psutil
import os
count = 0
qry = ""
ul = 0.00
dl = 0.00
t0 = time.time()
upload = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)["Wireless Network Connection"][0]
download = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)["Wireless Network Connection"][1]
up_down = (upload, download)
while True:
last_up_down = up_down
upload = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)["Wireless Network Connection"][0]
download = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)["Wireless Network Connection"][1]
t1 = time.time()
up_down = (upload, download)
try:
ul, dl = [
(now - last) / (t1 - t0) / 1024.0
for now, last in zip(up_down, last_up_down)
]
t0 = time.time()
except:
pass
if dl > 0.1 or ul >= 0.1:
time.sleep(0.75)
os.system("cls")
print("UL: {:0.2f} kB/s n".format(ul) + "DL: {:0.2f} kB/s".format(dl))
v = input()
Simple and easy 😉
The first answer in interface should be change to desired network adapter. To see the name in ubuntu you can use ifconfig, then change interface='wifi' to the device name.
a little change to formatting in python3
def print_rate(rate):
try:
print(('UL: {0:.0f} kB/s / DL: {1:.0f} kB/s').format(*rate[-1]))
except IndexError:
'UL: - kB/s/ DL: - kB/s'
I added an LCD mod for this code if you want to test it on a raspberry pi but you need to add the psutil and the lcddriver to your project code!!!!
import time
import psutil
import os
import lcddriver
count=0
qry=''
ul=0.00
dl=0.00
t0 = time.time()
upload=psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)['wlan0'][0]
download=psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)['wlan0'][1]
up_down=(upload,download)
display = lcddriver.lcd()
while True:
last_up_down = up_down
upload=psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)['wlan0'][0]
download=psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)['wlan0'][1]
t1 = time.time()
up_down = (upload,download)
try:
ul, dl = [(now - last) / (t1 - t0) / 1024.0
for now,last in zip(up_down, last_up_down)]
t0 = time.time()
#display.lcd_display_string(str(datetime.datetime.now().time()), 1)
except:
pass
if dl>0.1 or ul>=0.1:
time.sleep(0.75)
os.system('cls')
print('UL: {:0.2f} kB/s n'.format(ul)+'DL:{:0.2f} kB/s'.format(dl))
display.lcd_display_string(str('DL:{:0.2f} KB/s '.format(dl)), 1)
display.lcd_display_string(str('UL:{:0.2f} KB/s '.format(ul)), 2)
# if KeyboardInterrupt: # If there is a KeyboardInterrupt (when you press ctrl+c), exit the program and cleanup
# print("Cleaning up!")
# display.lcd_clear()
v=input()
Another and more simple solution (without threading and queues although still based on @Steinar Lima) and for more recent python:
import time
import psutil
def on_calculate_speed(self, interface):
dt = 1 # I find that dt = 1 is good enough
t0 = time.time()
try:
counter = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)[interface]
except KeyError:
return []
tot = (counter.bytes_sent, counter.bytes_recv)
while True:
last_tot = tot
time.sleep(dt)
try:
counter = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)[interface]
except KeyError:
break
t1 = time.time()
tot = (counter.bytes_sent, counter.bytes_recv)
ul, dl = [
(now - last) / (t1 - t0) / 1000.0
for now, last
in zip(tot, last_tot)
]
return [int(ul), int(dl)]
t0 = time.time()
while SomeCondition:
# "wlp2s0" is usually the default wifi interface for linux, but you
# could use any other interface that you want/have.
interface = "wlp2s0"
result_speed = on_calculate_speed(interface)
if len(result_speed) < 1:
print("Upload: - kB/s/ Download: - kB/s")
else:
ul, dl = result_speed[0], result_speed[1]
print("Upload: {} kB/s / Download: {} kB/s".format(ul, dl))
Or you could also fetch the default interface with pyroute2:
while SomeCondition:
ip = IPDB()
interface = ip.interfaces[ip.routes['default']['oif']]["ifname"]
result_speed = on_calculate_speed(interface)
if len(result_speed) < 1:
print("Upload: - kB/s/ Download: - kB/s")
else:
ul, dl = result_speed[0], result_speed[1]
print("Upload: {} kB/s / Download: {} kB/s".format(ul, dl))
ip.release()
i found this tread, and dont have any idea from python, i jst copy and paste codes, and now need a little help, this script, i have jst show the total of bytes send/recived, can modify to show the actual speed?
def network(iface):
stat = psutil.net_io_counters(pernic=True)[iface]
return "%s: Tx%s, Rx%s" %
(iface, bytes2human(stat.bytes_sent), bytes2human(stat.bytes_recv))
def stats(device):
# use custom font
font_path = str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.joinpath('fonts', 'C&C Red Alert [INET].ttf'))
font_path2 = str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.joinpath('fonts', 'Stockholm.ttf'))
font2 = ImageFont.truetype(font_path, 12)
font3 = ImageFont.truetype(font_path2, 11)
with canvas(device) as draw:
draw.text((0, 0), cpu_usage(), font=font2, fill="white")
if device.height >= 32:
draw.text((0, 14), mem_usage(), font=font2, fill="white")
if device.height >= 64:
draw.text((0, 26), "IP: " + getIP("eth0"), font=font2, fill=255)
try:
draw.text((0, 38), network('eth0'), font=font2, fill="white")
except KeyError:
# no wifi enabled/available
pass
The code
# pip install speedtest-cli
import speedtest
speed_test = speedtest.Speedtest()
def bytes_to_mb(bytes):
KB = 1024 # One Kilobyte is 1024 bytes
MB = KB * 1024 # One MB is 1024 KB
return int(bytes/MB)
download_speed = bytes_to_mb(speed_test.download())
print("Your Download speed is", download_speed, "MB")
upload_speed = bytes_to_mb(speed_test.upload())
print("Your Upload speed is", upload_speed, "MB")