Testing download file speed using cUrl and get its stats into a log file. Unix-like systems only.

download_testing_stats.sh

#!/bin/bash

# For customize the writeout take a look at https://ec.haxx.se/usingcurl/usingcurl-verbose/usingcurl-writeout

curl -Skw "\
CURL download file testing\n\
==========================\n\
URL:                    %{url_effective}\n\
Response code:          %{response_code}\n\
Download size:          %{size_download}B\n\
Download speed:         %{speed_download}B/s\n\
Time connect:           %{time_connect}s\n\
Time name lookup:       %{time_namelookup}s\n\
Time pretransfer:       %{time_pretransfer}\n\
Time start transfer:    %{time_starttransfer}s\n\
Time redirect:          %{time_redirect}s\n\
Time total:             %{time_total}s\n" \
-Lo /dev/null \
--url $1 \
> download_testing_stats.log

Script usage

Downloaded stats content will be placed into a download_testing_stats.log.

chmod +x download_testing_stats.sh
./download_testing_stats.sh "https://ger.mirror.pkgbuild.com/iso/2020.02.01/archlinux-2020.02.01-x86_64.iso"

Note:

• The script support an URL as parameter.
• The script doesn't save any file locally. For get the file into a specific location just replace /dev/null with the corresponding file path on system.