If you need to generate fake data for any reason then faker is the python package for you.
Installation
You can install this easily using pip like this
pip install Faker
From there, we create a Faker ‘generator’ on which we will make the many calls for our generated data:
from faker import Faker fake = Faker()
Faker has numerous built in providers, here are
faker.providers
faker.providers.address
faker.providers.automotive
faker.providers.bank
faker.providers.barcode
faker.providers.color
faker.providers.company
faker.providers.credit_card
faker.providers.currency
faker.providers.date_time
faker.providers.file
faker.providers.geo
faker.providers.internet
faker.providers.isbn
faker.providers.job
faker.providers.lorem
faker.providers.misc
faker.providers.person
faker.providers.phone_number
faker.providers.profile
faker.providers.python
faker.providers.ssn
faker.providers.user_agent
Here’s a list of Providers written by the community:
| Description | URL |
| Airport names, airport codes, and flights | faker_airtravel |
| Fake credit score data for testing purpose | faker_credit_score |
| Fake microservice names | faker_microservice |
| Music genres, subgenres, and instruments. | faker_music |
| Fake posts in markdown format | mdgen |
| Fake vehicle information includes Year Make Model | faker_vehicle |
| Web-related data such as mime-type and web server versions. | faker_web |
| Fake Wi-Fi ESSIDs | faker_wifi_essid |
| Wrap over other providers to return their value or None. | faker_optional |
You can also change the default locale from english to another language
Code examples
This example would generate 10 fake email accounts
#!/usr/bin/python from faker import Faker fake = Faker() print (fake.name()) for _ in range(10): print(fake.name(),fake.ascii_free_email())
This example expands on generating fake email data
#!/usr/bin/python
from faker import Faker
fake = Faker()
print(f'Email: {fake.ascii_company_email()}')
print(f'Email: {fake.ascii_email()}')
print(f'Email: {fake.ascii_free_email()}')
print(f'Email: {fake.ascii_safe_email()}')
print(f'Email: {fake.company_email()}')
