speedtest-cli: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

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On 3 machines I get:

$ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/speedtest-cli", line 11, in <module> load_entry_point('speedtest-cli==2.1.2', 'console_scripts', 'speedtest-cli')() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py", line 1986, in main shell() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py", line 1872, in shell speedtest = Speedtest( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py", line 1091, in __init__ self.get_config() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py", line 1173, in get_config ignore_servers = list( ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

I have tested one of these machines on two different internet connections with the same result.

Why is it not working?

Anyway, I can reproduce with speedtest-cli 2.1.2 on Slackware. — Arkadiusz Drabczyk
– Arkadiusz Drabczyk, Commented Apr 10, 2021 at 13:42
That github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/pull/769/commits/… fixes the problem for me. — Arkadiusz Drabczyk
– Arkadiusz Drabczyk, Commented Apr 10, 2021 at 13:51
@ArkadiuszDrabczyk points to github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/pull/769/commits/… which fixes it. — Ole Tange
– Ole Tange, Commented Apr 10, 2021 at 14:29
The final patch differs slightly from the one offered in the Pull Request: github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/commit/… — mwfearnley
– mwfearnley, Commented Apr 14, 2021 at 15:01

mwfearnley · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-05 07:42:58Z

From this speedtest-cli Pull Request, I gather the speedtest site have changed something in the response their API gives out. Looking at the first commit in the PR, you just need to modify a single line in speedtest.py.

If you're in Ubuntu or similar, and you have the file in the location shown in your output, you can fix it with:

## Backup original code sudo gzip -k9 /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py ## Make the line substitution sed -i "s/^ map(int, server_config\['ignoreids'\].split(','))$/ map(int, (server_config['ignoreids'].split(',') if len(server_config['ignoreids']) else []) )/" /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py

EDIT: the final patch is at https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/commit/cadc68, and published in v2.1.3. It's too complex for a simple one-line sed command, but you could still apply it yourself manually. Or you could try downloading that version of the speedtest.py file yourself:

sudo gzip -k9 /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/v2.1.3/speedtest.py \ -O /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py

(Again, you should double-check the location of the speedtest.py file. The above location seems to be common for Ubuntu, but not across all versions of Unix/Linux.)

Applying the patch gives ImportError: module 'speedtest' has no attribute 'main' — iamanigeeit
– iamanigeeit, Commented Jul 15, 2021 at 15:09
The top solution with the one line sed command worked for me! — Mote Zart
– Mote Zart, Commented Jul 26, 2021 at 16:41
Good fix. My paths are different for FreeBSD, which isn't surprising. Thank you. — pboin
– pboin, Commented Feb 4, 2022 at 16:05

yannis · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-09 20:24:10Z

I got mine working by using these 2 commands:

sudo apt install python-pip -y && sudo pip install speedtest-cli

Jeff Schaller · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-30 20:01:05Z

This problem can be solved by:

sudo gzip -k9 /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/v2.1.3/speedtest.py -O /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/speedtest.py

Konstantinos Kogias · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-11 08:24:09Z

@mwfearnley your solution worked, thanks! Sometimes speedtest might be installed under a different location so maybe run the following instead:

sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/v2.1.3/speedtest.py -O $(which speedtest)

Glad you found it helpful! Note that /usr/bin/speedtest may not typically be the speedtest.py file itself, but a sort of entry point into it. (You can see similar scripts with grep EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT /usr/bin/*) — mwfearnley
– mwfearnley, Commented May 5, 2021 at 8:16

Pascal · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-30 21:57:02Z

I was using it on Raspbian (Raspberry Pi) and in my case I was confusing the site-packages of the python installation of the user pi and root (sudo). This command was fine:

$ speedtest-cli --simple

But

$ sudo speedtest-cli --simple

always crashed. This was because there was version speedtest-cli-2.1.3 for user pi and speedtest-cli-2.1.2 for root.

Since I was using the commands in a cron job, the command was always run with root and crashed. To overcome this I had to upgrade the package explicitly:

$ sudo pip install --upgrade speedtest-cli

Maybe this also fits for someone else.

AdminBee · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-13 12:11:12Z

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sudo apt remove speedtest-cli sudo pip install --upgrade speedtest-cli

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user12055579 · Accepted Answer · 2021-11-02 16:08:36Z

If you are using the Python speediest-cli just uninstall and reinstall it:

pip uninstall speedtest-cli

then

pip install speedtest-cli

ks1322 · Accepted Answer · 2024-03-08 13:36:48Z

speedtest-cli can just be downloaded and run from any local folder. This is how to download the latest version from master and run it:

wget https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/raw/master/speedtest.py python speedtest.py

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