Tweet your speed results from speedtest

tweet-speed-results.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys
import csv
import datetime
import time
import twitter

def tb():
    #run speedtest-cli
    print 'running test'
    a = os.popen("python /home/pi/speedtest/speedtest-cli --simple").read()
    print 'ran'

    #split the 3 line result (ping,down,up)
    lines = a.split('\n')
    print a

    ts = time.time()
    date = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(ts).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    #if speedtest could not connect set the speeds to 0
    if "Cannot" in a:
        p = 100
        d = 0
        u = 0
    #extract the values for ping down and up values
    else:
        p = lines[0][6:11]
        d = lines[1][10:14]
        u = lines[2][8:12]
    print date,p, d, u

    #save the data to file for local network plotting
    out_file = open('/home/pi/twitterbot/data.csv', 'a')
    writer = csv.writer(out_file)
    writer.writerow((ts*1000,p,d,u))
    out_file.close()

    # twitter stuff
    # put in your twitter stuff below
    api = twitter.Api(consumer_key='',
                          consumer_secret='',
                          access_token_key='',
                          access_token_secret='')
    print(api.VerifyCredentials())

    status = api.PostUpdate('@levidurfee ' + str(int(eval(d))) + ' down and ' + str(int(eval(u))) + ' up')
    print(status.text)

    return
if __name__ == '__main__':
    tb()
    print 'completed'

Credit to AlekseyP for the majority of the code and the idea.