I would like a progress bar to appear in the console window while a file is being downloaded. My code is this: Download file using libcurl in C/C++.
How to have a progress bar in libcurl?
I would like a progress bar to appear in the console window while a file is being downloaded. My code is this: Download file using libcurl in C/C++.
How to have a progress bar in libcurl?
Your meter.
int progress_func(void* ptr, double TotalToDownload, double NowDownloaded,
double TotalToUpload, double NowUploaded)
{
// ensure that the file to be downloaded is not empty
// because that would cause a division by zero error later on
if (TotalToDownload <= 0.0)) {
return 0;
}
// how wide you want the progress meter to be
int totaldotz=40;
double fractiondownloaded = NowDownloaded / TotalToDownload;
// part of the progressmeter that's already "full"
int dotz = round(fractiondownloaded * totaldotz);
// create the "meter"
int ii=0;
printf("%3.0f%% [",fractiondownloaded*100);
// part that's full already
for ( ; ii < dotz;ii++) {
printf("=");
}
// remaining part (spaces)
for ( ; ii < totaldotz;ii++) {
printf(" ");
}
// and back to line begin - do not forget the fflush to avoid output buffering problems!
printf("]\r");
fflush(stdout);
// if you don't return 0, the transfer will be aborted - see the documentation
return 0;
}
From the curl documentation
CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION
Function pointer that should match the curl_progress_callback prototype found in . This function gets called by libcurl instead of its internal equivalent with a frequent interval during operation (roughly once per second) no matter if data is being transfered or not. Unknown/unused argument values passed to the callback will be set to zero (like if you only download data, the upload size will remain 0). Returning a non-zero value from this callback will cause libcurl to abort the transfer and return CURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK.
So:
You provide a function that looks like this
int progress_func(void* ptr, double TotalToDownload, double NowDownloaded, double TotalToUpload, double NowUploaded)
{
// It's here you will write the code for the progress message or bar
}
And some extra options after the existing options
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, fp); // already there
// Internal CURL progressmeter must be disabled if we provide our own callback
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, FALSE);
// Install the callback function
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, progress_func);
That's all that needs to be done
Like apt progress bar
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <include/curl/curl.h>//Or #include <curl/curl.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <math.h>
using namespace std;
int nb_bar;
double last_progress, progress_bar_adv;
HANDLE hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
int progress_bar (void *bar, double t, double d)
{
if(last_progress != round(d/t*100))
{
nb_bar = 25;
progress_bar_adv = round(d/t*nb_bar);
cout<<"\r ";
SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, 160);
cout<<" Progress : [ ";
if(round(d/t*100) < 10)
{ cout<<"0"<<round(d/t*100)<<" %]"; }
else
{ cout<<round(d/t*100)<<" %] "; }
SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, 15);
cout<<" [";
SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, 10);
for(int i = 0 ; i <= progress_bar_adv ; i++)
{ cout<<"#"; }
SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, 15);
for(int i = 0 ; i < nb_bar - progress_bar_adv; i++)
{ cout<<"."; }
cout<<"]";
last_progress = round(d/t*100);
}
return 0;
}
int main()
{
CURL *curl_download;
FILE *fp;
CURLcode res;
string url = "http://www.gecif.net/articles/mathematiques/pi/pi_1_million.txt", output_file = "pi.txt";
curl_download = curl_easy_init();
if (curl_download)
{
//SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, 11);
fp = fopen(output_file.c_str(),"wb");
curl_easy_setopt(curl_download, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
curl_easy_setopt(curl_download, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, NULL);
curl_easy_setopt(curl_download, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, fp);
curl_easy_setopt(curl_download, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, FALSE);
//progress_bar : the fonction for the progress bar
curl_easy_setopt(curl_download, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, progress_bar);
//Text color : SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, nb_color);
SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, 11);
cout<<" Start download"<<endl<<endl;
res = curl_easy_perform(curl_download);
fclose(fp);
if(res == CURLE_OK)
{
SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, 10);
cout<<endl<<endl<<" The file was download with succes"<<endl;
}
else
{
SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, 4);
cout<<endl<<endl<<" Error"<<endl;
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl_download);
}
SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, 11);
return 0;
}