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Flexible ascii progress bar.


Installation

$ npm install progress


Usage

First we create a ProgressBar, giving it a format string
as well as the total, telling the progress bar when it will
be considered complete. After that all we need to do is tick() appropriately.

var ProgressBar = require('progress');

var bar = new ProgressBar(':bar', { total: 10 });
var timer = setInterval(function () {
  bar.tick();
  if (bar.complete) {
    console.log('\ncomplete\n');
    clearInterval(timer);
  }
}, 100);


Options

These are keys in the options object you can pass to the progress bar along with
total as seen in the example above.


total total number of ticks to complete

width the displayed width of the progress bar defaulting to total

stream the output stream defaulting to stderr

complete completion character defaulting to "="

incomplete incomplete character defaulting to "-"

clear option to clear the bar on completion defaulting to false

callback optional function to call when the progress bar completes


Tokens

These are tokens you can use in the format of your progress bar.


:bar the progress bar itself

:current current tick number

:total total ticks

:elapsed time elapsed in seconds

:percent completion percentage

:eta estimated completion time in seconds


Examples


Download

In our download example each tick has a variable influence, so we pass the chunk
length which adjusts the progress bar appropriately relative to the total
length.

var ProgressBar = require('../');
var https = require('https');

var req = https.request({
  host: 'download.github.com',
  port: 443,
  path: '/visionmedia-node-jscoverage-0d4608a.zip'
});

req.on('response', function(res){
  var len = parseInt(res.headers['content-length'], 10);

  console.log();
  var bar = new ProgressBar('  downloading [:bar] :percent :etas', {
    complete: '=',
    incomplete: ' ',
    width: 20,
    total: len
  });

  res.on('data', function (chunk) {
    bar.tick(chunk.length);
  });

  res.on('end', function () {
    console.log('\n');
  });
});

req.end();


The above example result in a progress bar like the one below.

downloading [=====             ] 29% 3.7s


You can see more examples in the examples folder.


License

MIT