Remotely trigger speedtests

[alexjustesen]

Source: #1046

📜 Description

For various reasons a test should be able to be trigged without having to set a schedule or manually from the UI.

✅ To-do list

• trigger an Ookla speedtest using a webhook
• trigger an Ookla speedtest using an API endpoint

[ChristophKronberger]

Hey @alexjustesen !

Love this Project and want to contribute.
Would like to go forward with this issue.

[alexjustesen]

@ChristophKronberger trying to organize my thoughts around this feature. I need to document the API feature better in a separate issue while I'll link later but this gives us a high level benchmark for remotely triggering speedtests.

[ChristophKronberger]

Hey @alexjustesen !

sure take your time and let me know if i can do anything.

in #1141 ive uploaded the postman collection.

If the API grows i also can imagine using swagger.

[alexjustesen]

I was looking at https://treblle.com/product/api-documentation to assist with API documentation, their Laravel package will also generate the Swagger docs so this might be a useful way to dynamically generate docs.

[Kristoffeh]

The best case here would've been to allow users to specify an interval in the web interface how often it should perform a speedtest. Has anyone been able to do this with a cron job?

[jeliasson]

Would love to see both; an API endpoint for triggering a speedtest, and a web interface option for specifying a schedule that triggers speedtests.

Laravel's Task Scheduling and php artisan schedule:work is probably a good start for scheduling in case anyone starting on it.