diff --git a/pages/common/faker.md b/pages/common/faker.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..76fffac007 --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/common/faker.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# faker + +> A Python library and a tool to generate fake data. +> More information: . + +- 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 -d. -f1` to get list of locales): + +`faker --repeat {{number}} --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 -d. -f1` to get list of locales): + +`faker --repeat {{number}} --lang {{en_AU|en_US|...}} city -o {{path/to/file.txt}}` + +- Generate a number of random HTTP user-agents showing verbose output: + +`faker --repeat {{number}} --verbose user_agent` + +- Generate a number of domain names and separate each using a specific separator: + +`faker --repeat {{number}} --sep '{{,}}' domain_name`