How to implement console progress bar?

I am currently using a crawler that I wrote that I call from the terminal with a console command I wrote for the artisan console.

A crawler would be a perfect usecase for a progressbar like the example given in the docs:

http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/artisan#writing-output

Now I am wondering how to implement it with my code though. The example is pretty straigtforward but I am using my console command to call helper file where my crawler is located. The example has a foreach loop in the command file itself.

This is my code:

public function handle(Crawler $crawler)
    {
        $this->info(PHP_EOL . "updating the database with beers data from example.com" . PHP_EOL);

        return $crawler->startCrawler('https://www.example.com', 'product-block', '/\d+\,?\d*CL/i');
    }

The startCrawler method runs the crawler and then the crawler goes through an if statement statement to paginate through the website until it hits a 404. How can I implement it like this while my if statement is in an external helper class?

masterpowers

10 years ago

Level 5

credits to mattstauffer https://mattstauffer.co/blog/advanced-input-output-with-artisan-commands-tables-and-progress-bars-in-laravel-5.1

public function handle()
{
    $this->output->progressStart(10);

    for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {
        sleep(1);

        $this->output->progressAdvance();
    }

    $this->output->progressFinish();
}

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