schollz/progressbar
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A really basic thread-safe progress bar for Golang applications
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Originalprogressbar
A very simple thread-safe progress bar which should work on every OS without problems. I needed a progressbar for croc and everything I tried had problems, so I made another one. In order to be OS agnostic I do not plan to support multi-line outputs.
Install
go get -u github.com/schollz/progressbar/v3
Usage
Basic usage
bar := progressbar.Default(100)
for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
bar.Add(1)
time.Sleep(40 * time.Millisecond)
}
which looks like:

I/O operations
The progressbar implements an io.Writer so it can automatically detect the number of bytes written to a stream, so you can use it as a progressbar for an io.Reader.
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://dl.google.com/go/go1.14.2.src.tar.gz", nil)
resp, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer resp.Body.Close()
f, _ := os.OpenFile("go1.14.2.src.tar.gz", os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0644)
defer f.Close()
bar := progressbar.DefaultBytes(
resp.ContentLength,
"downloading",
)
io.Copy(io.MultiWriter(f, bar), resp.Body)
which looks like:

Progress bar with unknown length
A progressbar with unknown length is a spinner. Any bar with -1 length will automatically convert it to a spinner with a customizable spinner type. For example, the above code can be run and set the resp.ContentLength to -1.
which looks like:

Customization
There is a lot of customization that you can do - change the writer, the color, the width, description, theme, etc. See all the options.
bar := progressbar.NewOptions(1000,
progressbar.OptionSetWriter(ansi.NewAnsiStdout()), //you should install "github.com/k0kubun/go-ansi"
progressbar.OptionEnableColorCodes(true),
progressbar.OptionShowBytes(true),
progressbar.OptionSetWidth(15),
progressbar.OptionSetDescription("[cyan][1/3][reset] Writing moshable file..."),
progressbar.OptionSetTheme(progressbar.Theme{
Saucer: "[green]=[reset]",
SaucerHead: "[green]>[reset]",
SaucerPadding: " ",
BarStart: "[",
BarEnd: "]",
}))
for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
bar.Add(1)
time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
}
which looks like:

Contributing
Pull requests are welcome. Feel free to...
- Revise documentation
- Add new features
- Fix bugs
- Suggest improvements
Thanks
Thanks @Dynom for massive improvements in version 2.0!
Thanks @CrushedPixel for adding descriptions and color code support!
Thanks @MrMe42 for adding some minor features!
Thanks @tehstun for some great PRs!
Thanks @Benzammour and @haseth for helping create v3!
Thanks @briandowns for compiling the list of spinners.
License
MIT
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