Use progress bar on download

[Fohlen]

It would be better to use a progress bar when downloading archives.
Only when using a --verbose flag all details should be printed to the console.

[Istar-Eldritch]

Hi @Fohlen, I think I don't understand exactly what you mean. There is already a download progress bar when using the download subcommand. Where would you like to see this feature?

[Fohlen]

Hey @Istar-Eldritch for bionode-ncbi@2.0.1 on OSX High Sierra this is not exactly the case.
I do get all the file names and everything printed in my console when using the download subcommand.

[Istar-Eldritch]

Interesting... Would you be able to provider a recording of the case? The output of https://asciinema.org/ or a gif recorder would come handy to see the reproduction details. I don't have a mac with me now but I'll try to reproduce it Monday.

[Fohlen]

Hey @Istar-Eldritch, have a look here
https://asciinema.org/a/dq6MNldxau5fBMXrJL5AdbgRl

This ofc goes on and on for the entire archive 🚀

[Istar-Eldritch]

Thank you very much for the video. :)

If you add the --pretty flag you should get the expected progress bar:
bionode-ncbi download assembly human --pretty

Bionode benefits from its streaming capabilities, making it composable with other command line utilities through Unix pipes. In the case of download, I guess the decision of keeping the output in NDJSON by default was to keep the interface coherent with the behaviour of the rest of the CLI.

I hope this clarifies a bit your issue.