Ubuntu Fastest Mirror Finder by HB (Hash Borgir)

findFatestUbuntuMirrors.sh

#!/bin/bash
# By HB

echo "Downloading latest Ubuntu mirrors.txt"
curl -o /tmp/mirrors.txt http://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt

input_file="/tmp/mirrors.txt"

fastest_url=""
fastest_time=9999

while read -r url; do
# Send a GET request to the URL using curl and measure the response time
response_time=$(curl  --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 120 -w "%{time_total}" -o /dev/null "${url}ls-lR.gz")
# Output the URL and its latency
echo "URL: $url : $response_time seconds"
echo "------------------------"


# If the response time is less than the current fastest time, update the fastest URL and time
if (( $(echo "$response_time < $fastest_time" | bc -l) && $(echo "$response_time > 1" | bc -l) )); then
    fastest_url="$url"
    fastest_time="$response_time"
fi
done < "$input_file"

echo "Fastest URL: $fastest_url : $fastest_time seconds"