How to show wget progress bar only?

Question

For example:

wget http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg

downloading: TheFile.tar.gz ...
--09:30:42--  http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg
                   


        

Answer 1

Here is a solution that will show you a dot for each file (or line, for that matter). It is particularly useful if you are downloading with --recursive. This won't catch errors and may be slightly off if there are extra lines, but for general progress on a lot of files it is helpful:

wget -r -nv https://example.com/files/ | \
    awk -v "ORS=" '{ print "."; fflush(); } END { print "\n" }'

Answer 2

You can use the following filter:

progressfilt ()
{
    local flag=false c count cr=$'\r' nl=$'\n'
    while IFS='' read -d '' -rn 1 c
    do
        if $flag
        then
            printf '%s' "$c"
        else
            if [[ $c != $cr && $c != $nl ]]
            then
                count=0
            else
                ((count++))
                if ((count > 1))
                then
                    flag=true
                fi
            fi
        fi
    done
}

Usage:

$ wget --progress=bar:force http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg 2>&1 | progressfilt
100%[======================================>] 15,790      48.8K/s   in 0.3s

2011-01-13 22:09:59 (48.8 KB/s) - 'TheFile.jpeg' saved [15790/15790]

This function depends on a sequence of 0x0d0x0a0x0d0x0a0x0d being sent right before the progress bar is started. This behavior may be implementation dependent.

Answer 3

You can use standard options:

wget --progress=bar http://somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg

Answer 4

This is another exemple, maybe will help you

download() {
    local url=$1
    echo -n "    "
    wget --progress=dot $url 2>&1 | grep --line-buffered "%" | sed -u -e "s,\.,,g" | awk '{printf("\b\b\b\b%4s", $2)}'
    echo -ne "\b\b\b\b"
    echo " DONE"
}

Answer 5

This is not literally an answer but this snippet might also be helpful to some coming here for e.g. "zenity wget GUI":

LANG=C wget -O /dev/null --progress=bar:force:noscroll --limit-rate 5k http://nightly.altlinux.org/sisyphus/ChangeLog 2>&1 | stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0 tr '>' '\n' | stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0 sed -rn 's/^.*\<([0-9]+)%\[.*$/\1/p' | zenity --progress --auto-close

What was crucial for me is stdbuf(1).

Answer 6

You can use the follow option of tail:

wget somesite.com/TheFile.jpeg --progress=bar:force 2>&1 | tail -f -n +6

The +6 is to delete the first 6 lines. It may be different on your version of wget or your language.

You need to use --progress=bar:force otherwise wget switches to the dot type.

The downside is that the refreshing is less frequent than with wget (looks like every 2 seconds). The --sleep-interval option of tail seems to be meant just for that, but it didn't change anything for me.