Finding the closest Apache Software Foundation mirror programatically

Question

For my deployment automation needs, I would like to dynamically and programatically determine the closest Apache Software Foundation mirror since the servers are distributed

Answer 1

Here is an alternative using python:

curl -s 'https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?as_json=1' \
| python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['preferred']"