Surfmeter Automator

Surfmeter Automator is an automatization software for the Surfmeter Lab browser extension. Surfmeter Automator runs on the command line and enables the automated, scheduled measurement of web/video services and speed tests as well as native OS-based measurement programs like ping.

Surfmeter Automator does not require a graphical display and can run in a standalone, virtualized environment. It also runs on Docker. The benefit of Docker is that you do not have to worry about installing dependencies — everything is bundled within the Docker image. You just need to have Docker Desktop running on your system.

Note that Surfmeter Automator interacts with Surfmeter Lab by calling special so-called “deep links”. You may occasionally see these referenced in the logs and this documentation.

In the following we will shorten Surfmeter Automator as Automator. (Sometimes you'll see it referred to as Surfmeter Lab Automator.)

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Next we'll cover the requirements to get you started.