HAhapidjus·May 30, 2020
This is the equivalent library for PHP https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
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Faker
Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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11 sourcesNice list, for just names it's a great resource. I see some umlauts, spaces in names, punctuation in names, and it's clearly splittable for first/last name fields. I'm not sure what other ground could be covered that someone would need to account for.
I'm not "book" cultured, so a lot of names I don't recognize, but nice shout outs to 30 Rock and Anchorman :p
Github complains that it's not a properly formatted CSV file. Maybe consider a TSV? It'd probably still complain.
I've yet to use it, but it's been in my back pocket for when I need it. This PHP package looks nice if you need more than just names: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
In Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application developmentA while back a fake DB data generator was posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8761953
Further back, there's also this one for Python: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7102268
And this one for PHP: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker (there were no HN comments on that thread)
And this one for Ruby: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=86018 (also no comments)
These seem like a good starting point.
Also, mining bug reports for data that causes problems in your application is a lot of fun. You can turn your development database into a collection of pathological edge cases.
In Important Security Notice from PatreonAsk and you shall receive[0]. Wrote this using Faker[1] after viewing the responses of this thread.
[0]: http://www.certifiedwebninja.com/fake.json
[1]: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
In Fake name generator for social mediaThis can be easily done with "Faker", see: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
It can create fake names, locations, account info, credit cards and so on...
In Fake name generator for social mediaI was thinking along the same lines, I've used Faker [0] for PHP before and I would love to be able to have an npm module to generate test JSON like this!
[0] https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
In Random JSON data generatorThe name looked familiar and it's indeed inspired by the Faker library for PHP:
https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
Another interesting library that is build on top of Faker is Alice. It allows you to define complex fixtures in .yml:
https://github.com/nelmio/alice
In Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for youThere are also faker libraries for various languages, e.g. the famous https://github.com/stympy/faker, https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker and a little port in Scala (created by me) https://github.com/justwrote/scala-faker
In Fake Name GeneratorOr the PHP port which is awesome: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
In API for creating random users in your application