package main
import (
	"time"
	"github.com/cheggaaa/pb/v3"
)
func main() {
	count := 100000
	// create and start new bar
	bar := pb.StartNew(count)
	// start bar from 'default' template
	// bar := pb.Default.Start(count)
	// start bar from 'simple' template
	// bar := pb.Simple.Start(count)
	// start bar from 'full' template
	// bar := pb.Full.Start(count)
	for i := 0; i < count; i++ {
		bar.Increment()
		time.Sleep(time.Millisecond)
	}
	// finish bar
	bar.Finish()
}

// create bar
bar := pb.New(count)
// refresh info every second (default 200ms)
bar.SetRefreshRate(time.Second)
// force set io.Writer, by default it's os.Stderr
bar.SetWriter(os.Stdout)
// bar will format numbers as bytes (B, KiB, MiB, etc)
bar.Set(pb.Bytes, true)
// bar use SI bytes prefix names (B, kB) instead of IEC (B, KiB)
bar.Set(pb.SIBytesPrefix, true)
// set custom bar template
bar.SetTemplateString(myTemplate)
// check for error after template set
if err := bar.Err(); err != nil {
    return
}
// start bar
bar.Start()

package main
import (
	"crypto/rand"
	"io"
	"io/ioutil"
	"github.com/cheggaaa/pb/v3"
)
func main() {
	var limit int64 = 1024 * 1024 * 500
	// we will copy 500 MiB from /dev/rand to /dev/null
	reader := io.LimitReader(rand.Reader, limit)
	writer := ioutil.Discard
	// start new bar
	bar := pb.Full.Start64(limit)
	// create proxy reader
	barReader := bar.NewProxyReader(reader)
	// copy from proxy reader
	io.Copy(writer, barReader)
	// finish bar
	bar.Finish()
}

tmpl := `{{ red "With funcs:" }} {{ bar . "<" "-" (cycle . "↖" "↗" "↘" "↙" ) "." ">"}} {{speed . | rndcolor }} {{percent .}} {{string . "my_green_string" | green}} {{string . "my_blue_string" | blue}}`
// start bar based on our template
bar := pb.ProgressBarTemplate(tmpl).Start64(limit)
// set values for string elements
bar.Set("my_green_string", "green").Set("my_blue_string", "blue")