# rsalmei/alive-progress

A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, ETA, and very cool animations!

Repository: https://github.com/rsalmei/alive-progress
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/alive-progress
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: progress, bar, progress-bar, progressbar, spinner, eta, monitoring, python, terminal, multi-threaded, repl, alive, animated, visual, feedback, throughput, animations, spinners, spinner-styles, cli
Last push: 2026-05-24T19:29:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 70/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 84, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2585, "days_push": 101, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6295, forks 234 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:41.480376+00:00)

## What it is
alive-progress is a Python library providing animated terminal progress bars with live spinners, real-time throughput, and ETA estimation. It features multithreaded updates with low CPU usage and supports pausing/resuming from the REPL.

## Use cases
- show a progress bar for long-running python loops
- display eta and throughput in the terminal
- add animated spinner to cli scripts
- monitor progress of remote ssh jobs
- pause processing and resume from python repl

## When to choose
- you need a visually rich terminal progress bar in python
- you want accurate eta and throughput stats
- you need low-overhead updates for fast iterations

## When to avoid
- you need progress bars in gui or web applications
- you need a tui framework with full layout control
- your output environment doesn't support terminal control codes

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: terminal-ui, monitoring, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: progress-bar, spinner, eta, terminal-output, repl, command-line

## Member repositories
- rsalmei/alive-progress (main) score 70

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.480376+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:46:17.155551+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rsalmei/alive-progress (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.480376+00:00, sha 0df75f95088a)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/alive-progress/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:47.985204+00:00, sha f5389cb22fa4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.