faker Command Examples

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 -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