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faker — A Python library and a tool to generate fake data. More information: <https://faker.readthedocs.io/e

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Problem

How to use the faker command: A Python library and a tool to generate fake data. More information: <https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/>.

Solution

faker — A Python library and a tool to generate fake data. More information: <https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/>.

Show all fake data providers along with examples:

faker

Generate fake data of a specific type:

faker {{name|address|passport_full|credit_card_full|phone_number|email|company|date_time|user_name|password|job|...}}

Generate a number of fake addresses from a specific country (use localectl list-locales | cut --delimiter . --fields 1 to get list of locales):

faker {{[-r|--repeat]}} {{number}} {{[-l|--lang]}} {{de_DE|de_CH|...}} address

Generate a number of cities in a specific country and output them to a file (use localectl list-locales | cut --delimiter . --fields 1 to get list of locales):

faker {{[-r|--repeat]}} {{number}} {{[-l|--lang]}} {{en_AU|en_US|...}} city -o {{path/to/file.txt}}

Generate a number of random HTTP user-agents showing verbose output:

faker {{[-r|--repeat]}} {{number}} {{[-v|--verbose]}} user_agent

Generate a number of domain names and separate each using a specific separator:

faker {{[-r|--repeat]}} {{number}} {{[-s|--sep]}} '{{,}}' domain_name

Code Snippets

Show all fake data providers along with examples

faker

Generate fake data of a specific type

faker {{name|address|passport_full|credit_card_full|phone_number|email|company|date_time|user_name|password|job|...}}

Generate a number of fake addresses from a specific country (use `localectl list-locales | cut --delimiter . --fields 1` to get list of locales)

faker {{[-r|--repeat]}} {{number}} {{[-l|--lang]}} {{de_DE|de_CH|...}} address

Generate a number of cities in a specific country and output them to a file (use `localectl list-locales | cut --delimiter . --fields 1` to get list of locales)

faker {{[-r|--repeat]}} {{number}} {{[-l|--lang]}} {{en_AU|en_US|...}} city -o {{path/to/file.txt}}

Generate a number of random HTTP user-agents showing verbose output

faker {{[-r|--repeat]}} {{number}} {{[-v|--verbose]}} user_agent

Context

tldr-pages: common/faker

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