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

Question

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, Apr 10 '21 at 13:42
That https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/pull/769/commits/6e9a667b677b9dbc91a989ed1cdb343afbaf5273 fixes the problem for me. — Arkadiusz Drabczyk, Apr 10 '21 at 13:51
The final patch differs slightly from the one offered in the Pull Request: https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/commit/cadc68b5aef20f28648072cf07a8f155639b81dd — mwfearnley, Apr 14 '21 at 15:01
@ArkadiuszDrabczyk points to https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/pull/769/commits/6e9a667b677b9dbc91a989ed1cdb343afbaf5273 which fixes it. — Ole Tange, Apr 10 '21 at 14:29

mwfearnley · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-05T07:42:58.783

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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.)

edited May 05 '21 at 07:42

answered Apr 14 '21 at 14:53

mwfearnley

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This patch was publish in v2.1.3, tagged "9 days ago" – Steve Almond Apr 17 '21 at 14:22
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@SteveAlmond Thanks, I've added a link in my answer. – mwfearnley Apr 18 '21 at 13:32
thanks, your sed worked for me, fixed on ubuntu ! – neofutur May 17 '21 at 11:11
Applying the patch gives `ImportError: module 'speedtest' has no attribute 'main'` – iamanigeeit Jul 15 '21 at 15:09
The top solution with the one line sed command worked for me! – Mote Zart Jul 26 '21 at 16:41
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Good fix. My paths are different for FreeBSD, which isn't surprising. Thank you. – pboin Feb 04 '22 at 16:05

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered May 09 '21 at 20:24

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I got mine working by using these 2 commands:

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

answered May 09 '21 at 20:24

yannis

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 30 '21 at 20:01

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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

edited May 30 '21 at 20:01

Jeff Schaller

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answered May 30 '21 at 17:10

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Kostas Kogias · Answer 4 · 2021-05-11T08:24:09.207

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@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)

edited May 11 '21 at 08:24

answered Apr 24 '21 at 19:17

Kostas Kogias

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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 May 05 '21 at 08:16

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 30 '21 at 21:57

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.

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Jul 13 '21 at 12:11

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My solution

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

edited Jul 13 '21 at 12:11

AdminBee

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answered Jun 03 '21 at 16:05

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 02 '21 at 16:08

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

pip uninstall speedtest-cli

then

pip install speedtest-cli

answered Nov 02 '21 at 16:08

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

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