# tqdm/tqdm

:zap: A Fast, Extensible Progress Bar for Python and CLI

Repository: https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tqdm
Homepage: https://tqdm.github.io
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: progressbar, progressmeter, progress-bar, meter, rate, console, terminal, time, progress, gui, python, parallel, cli, utilities, jupyter, discord, telegram, pandas, keras, closember
Last push: 2026-08-17T21:24:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 97/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4109, "days_push": 16, "days_rel": 37, "gap_med": 8.0, "n_releases_24m": 13}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 31292, forks 1489 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:56.683846+00:00)

## What it is
tqdm is a fast, dependency-free Python library that adds smart progress meters to any iterable with a single wrapper call, and also works as a CLI tool for pipes. It predicts remaining time with negligible overhead (~60ns/iteration) and works in consoles, GUIs, and Jupyter notebooks.

## Use cases
- show a progress bar for python loops
- track progress of long-running iterations
- display progress for shell pipelines and file transfers
- add progress meters to pandas apply operations
- monitor training loop progress in keras
- show download or archive progress in terminal

## When to choose
- you need a progress bar in Python with near-zero overhead
- you want a dependency-free, cross-platform progress meter
- you need progress display in Jupyter notebooks or CLI pipes

## When to avoid
- you need rich TUI dashboards rather than a simple progress bar
- you are not working in Python or a terminal environment

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: cli, developer-tools, terminal-ui
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: progress-bar, progress-meter, iterable-wrapper, jupyter, pandas, monitoring-loops, command-line, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- tqdm/tqdm (main) score 97

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:56.683846+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 2026-08-29T16:52:18.339188+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:56.683846+00:00, sha a7f1e2cb8591)
  - homepage: https://tqdm.github.io (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:24.736256+00:00, sha 9fcf4247938f)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/tqdm/json (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:24.745180+00:00, sha d1548535dbe1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.