# npkgz/cli-progress

:hourglass: easy to use progress-bar for command-line/terminal applications

Repository: https://github.com/npkgz/cli-progress
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cli-progress
Homepage: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cli-progress
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: progress-bar, command-line-tool, nodejs-library, command-line, command-line-interface, progressbar, cli, nodejs, javascript
Last push: 2023-10-23T16:58:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3916, "days_push": 1045, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1254, forks 88 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:08.915814+00:00)

## What it is
cli-progress is a Node.js library for rendering customizable progress bars in command-line and terminal applications. It supports single and multi-bar modes, themes/presets, ETA calculation, custom payload tokens, and works in both TTY and non-TTY environments.

## Use cases
- show a progress bar while processing files in a node script
- display multiple concurrent progress bars in a terminal
- add ETA and percentage display to a CLI download task
- render progress output in a non-TTY CI environment
- customize terminal progress bar characters and format

## When to choose
- you need a simple, well-maintained progress bar for a Node.js CLI tool
- you want multi-bar rendering with logging support
- you need customizable themes, presets, and payload tokens

## When to avoid
- your project is not JavaScript/Node.js based
- you need a full TUI framework rather than just progress bars
- you need GUI or web-based progress indicators

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: terminal-ui, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: progress-bar, tty, multibar, javascript, npm, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- npkgz/cli-progress (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:08.915814+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 2026-08-30T05:07:25.156625+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/npkgz/cli-progress (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:08.915814+00:00, sha c471afc94138)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/cli-progress (fetched 2026-08-29T12:18:02.503830+00:00, sha 7cbc665f035c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.