🧊 Coolping — Because Ping Should Be Cool 😎

Edris Ranjbar — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:15:07 +0000

Hey Devs 👋

You know that moment when your website or server feels a bit too quiet and you hit ping just to make sure it’s still alive?
Yeah… I’ve been there too.

The problem is, ping is boring.
It works, but it doesn’t feel nice.
So I built something tiny, fun, and open-source to make that moment just a little cooler.

❄️ Introducing: Coolping

Coolping is a minimal command-line tool that pings your sites or servers — but with style, colors, and clean output.

$ coolping https://example.com
ℹ️ Pinging edrisranjbar.ir with 4 packets...
✅ Reply from edrisranjbar.ir: seq=1 time=160 ms
✅ Reply from edrisranjbar.ir: seq=2 time=169 ms
✅ Reply from edrisranjbar.ir: seq=3 time=151 ms
✅ Reply from edrisranjbar.ir: seq=4 time=151 ms

Solid connection! Your router approves. ✅

Simple. Fast. Cool.

✨ Why I built it

I wanted:

Something lighter than uptime dashboards
Something prettier than plain ping
And something open-source and hackable

Coolping started as a weekend project — but it quickly became part of my daily toolkit.
Now I use it to quickly check uptime or monitor small servers I host.

⚙️ Installation

You can install it easily with pip:

wget https://github.com/edrisranjbar/coolping/raw/main/coolping.deb -O coolping.deb
sudo dpkg -i coolping.deb

That’s it — no setup, no accounts, no noise.

🚀 What it does (so far)

✅ Pings websites and servers
✅ Clean, colored output
✅ Shows response time
✅ Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows
✅ 100% open-source

💡 Future ideas

I’m planning to add:

Parallel ping for multiple URLs
Uptime logging
Notification hooks (Slack, Telegram, etc.)
JSON output for CI/CD pipelines

If you have any feature ideas — please share them in the repo! 🙌

🤝 Try it out & give feedback

If you like minimalist dev tools, I’d love you to give Coolping a try.

👉 GitHub Repository → edrisranjbar/coolping

Try it, star it ⭐, or even open an issue with your thoughts.
Every bit of feedback helps make it better.

💬 Final words

Coolping is a tiny project — but it reminds me that even small tools can make our dev life a bit more fun.

Ping smart. Ping cool. 😎

$ coolping yoursite.com