fakerator

Random fake data generator with localization

fakerator was inspired by and has used data definitions from Marak's faker.js library

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Demo

JSFiddle test page

Tonic demo

Install

Bower

$ bower install fakerator

NodeJS

$ npm install fakerator

Manual

Download the package and use the dist/fakerator.js or the dist/fakerator.min.js file in your project.

Usage

Browser

<script src="https://rawgit.com/icebob/fakerator/master/dist/fakerator.js"></script>

<script>
  var fakerator = Fakerator();
  var name = fakerator.names.name();
  var user = fakerator.entity.user();
</script>

NodeJS

var Fakerator = require("fakerator");
var fakerator = Fakerator("de-DE");
var name = fakerator.names.name();
// Result: 'Dr. Marcus Drechsler'

Shortly

var fakerator = require("fakerator")("hu-HU");
var name = fakerator.names.name();
// Result: 'Fülöp Magdolna'

Or load a specific locale

var fakerator = require("fakerator/locales/de-DE")();
var name = fakerator.names.name();
// Result: 'Dr. Marcus Drechsler'

Seeding

The library uses the Mersenne Twister pseudorandom number generator, so set seed value, if you want to get a repeatable random sequence:

fakerator.seed(5567832);

Random

Generate random values or select a random element from array.

Localization

The library supports localizations. You can set the locale code in constructor.

Usage

  // Use default (English) localization
  var fakerator = Fakerator();
  console.log(fakerator.names.name());
  // Floyd Corkery

  // Use german
  var fakerator = Fakerator("de-DE");
  console.log(fakerator.names.name());
  // Hassan vom Kumbernuss

  // Use russian
  var fakerator = Fakerator("ru-RU");
  console.log(fakerator.names.name());
  // Альберт Валентинович Архипов

In production, you can load only a specific locale:

  // Use french
  var fakeratorFR = require("fakerator/locales/fr-FR")();
  console.log(fakeratorFR.names.name());
  // Dufour Camille

Available localizations:

Custom locale

Please read this how to add a new locale

Generators

Use this functions to generate fake random data

Names

Address

Phone

Company

Internet data

Lorem

Date & time

Miscellaneous

Entities

You can generate complex entities

User

fakerator.entity.user()

Result:

{
    "firstName": "Ashley",
    "lastName": "Kautzer",
    "userName": "ashley38",
    "password": "yuzasimima",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "1-485-841-6009",
    "dob": "1939-11-22T01:15:16.735Z",
    "website": "http://natalie-walker.info",
    "ip": "202.26.104.4",
    "avatar": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/jakemoore/128.jpg",
    "gravatar": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7875d665c96e5e388aa4074697cab0a0",
    "address": {
        "country": "Northern Mariana Islands",
        "countryCode": "MP",
        "state": "Michigan",
        "city": "New Jamie",
        "street": "1730 Abbott Views Apt. 460",
        "zip": "77988",
        "geo": {
            "latitude": -41.5878,
            "longitude": 34.266400000000004
        }
    },
    "status": false
}

You can set genre of user with first parameter.

// F - female, M - male
fakerator.entity.user("F");

Address

fakerator.entity.address()

Result:

{
    "country": "Bulgaria",
    "countryCode": "BG",
    "state": "Indiana",
    "city": "North Michele",
    "street": "06169 Beer Villages Suite 302",
    "zip": "20896",
    "geo": {
        "latitude": -9.275499999999994,
        "longitude": 92.53280000000001
    }
}

Company

fakerator.entity.company()

Result:

{
    "name": "Cormier, Murphy and Turcotte Ltd.",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "044.708.8876 x834",
    "website": "https://olgabeatty.info",
    "ip": "54.65.201.35",
    "address": {
        "country": "Caribbean Netherlands",
        "countryCode": "BQ",
        "state": "Kansas",
        "city": "East Ronnie",
        "street": "81019 Cormier Mall",
        "zip": "11474-0882",
        "geo": {
            "latitude": 1.6444000000000045,
            "longitude": 107.97910000000002
        }
    }
}

Blog post

fakerator.entity.post()

Result:

{
    "title": "Esse excepturi eum id ab aut dolore veritatis et.",
    "keywords": [
        "commodi",
        "odio",
        "sit"
    ],
    "created": "2016-05-25T18:19:46.283Z",
    "content": "Mollitia officiis quam nulla veritatis omnis eius enim quis. Dolorem est reiciendis adipisci. Laboriosam enim saepe sunt nisi. Autem tempora ullam non laborum. Qui dolorem fugiat amet. Eius consectetur ea et minus ipsam et qui unde doloremque.\r\nNihil minima aut. Voluptatibus neque at nulla ut expedita laboriosam. Veniam natus voluptates nulla voluptas impedit cumque qui nihil.\r\nMinus quos in autem facere dolorem quidem rem rerum. Animi quo eaque debitis nam non earum molestiae. Maxime vitae exercitationem doloremque."
}

Times

You can generate array of items with times and utimes (unique) functions. First parameter is the generator function. Second is the length of array.

You can pass further parameters, they will be passed to the generator function.

Usage

// Generate 3 names
fakerator.times(fakerator.names.name, 3);
// [ "Ross Hansen", "Thomas Pfeffer", "Alexis Hauck I" ]

// Generate 5 username with populate where first name must be 'John'
fakerator.times(fakerator.populate, 5, "#{internet.userName}", "John");
// [ 'john.langosh8341', 'john12', 'john.howe5075', 'john_jerde', 'john.grant9923' ]

// Generate 5 number from 1 to 10
fakerator.times(fakerator.random.number, 5, 1, 10);
// [ 10, 8, 1, 8, 5 ]
// Note: 8 is twice!

// Generator 5 UNIQUE number from 1 to 10
fakerator.utimes(fakerator.random.number, 5, 1, 10);
// [ 10, 2, 9, 6, 1 ]
// Note: every number is unique!

Templates

You can also generate fake data with templates:

fakerator.populate("#{names.name}")
// Ross Hansen

fakerator.populate("#{address.street}")
// 0662 Ferry Drive

fakerator.populate("Hi, my name is #{names.name}. I was born in #{address.city}, #{address.country}. I am #{date.age} years old.")
// Hi, my name is Mrs. Rufus Shanahan. I was born in Hilpertton, Denmark. I am 44 years old.

Replace symbols

The populate replace # symbol to a random number and ? symbol to a random letter.

fakerator.populate("#{names.firstName}-###-???")
// Mandy-802-oqs

TODO

Contribution

Please send pull requests improving the usage and fixing bugs, improving documentation and providing better examples, or providing some testing, because these things are important.

License

fakerator is available under the MIT license.

Contact

Copyright (C) 2016 Icebob