Flexible ascii progress bar.

$ npm install progress

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);

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

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

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.

MIT