Python script to load test a website, grab the important information from the load tester, and output the information to a text file.

loadTestScript.py

import datetime
import os

# Local Website: http://127.0.0.1/var/website/html
website = str(input("Enter the URL of the website you want to test: "))

os.system('ab -n 1000 -c 5 '+ website + ' > LoadTest.txt')

infile = 'LoadTest.txt'

important = []
keep_phrases = ["Benchmarking", "Document Path", "Complete requests", "Time per request", "Transfer rate"]

with open(infile) as f:
    f = f.readlines()

for line in f:
    for phrase in keep_phrases:
        if phrase in line:
            important.append(line)
            break


hostText = important[0]
hostHead = hostText.partition(' (')
need = hostHead[0]
query = need
stopwords = ['benchmarking']
querywords = query.split()
resultwords  = [word for word in querywords if word.lower() not in stopwords]
host = ' '.join(resultwords)

pathText = important[1]
pathHead = pathText.partition(': ')
path = (pathHead[2].lstrip().rstrip("\r\n"))

hitsText = important[2]
hitsHead = hitsText.partition(': ')
hits = (hitsHead[2].lstrip().rstrip("\r\n"))

reqText = important[3]
reqHead = reqText.partition(': ')
req = (reqHead[2].lstrip().rstrip("\r\n"))

transText = important[5]
transHead = transText.partition(': ')
trans = (transHead[2].lstrip().rstrip("\r\n"))

month = datetime.datetime.now().month
day = datetime.datetime.now().day
year = datetime.datetime.now().year
time = datetime.datetime.now().time()

lineBreak = "-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n"

file = open("loadTestReport.txt", "w")

file.write(lineBreak)
file.write("Weblog report for " + host + path + " by Ahad Sheriff\n")
file.write(lineBreak)
file.write("Report was taken on " + str(month) + "/" + str(day) + "/" + str(year) + " at " + str(time) + "\n")
file.write(lineBreak)
file.write("There were " + hits + " hits. Request time was: " + req + "\n")
file.write(lineBreak)
file.write("Transfer rate: " + trans + "\n")
file.write(lineBreak)
print("done")