Data faker

[Polyphony]

I found this awesome data faker on github that might come in handy for you guys.

Code: [Select]

https://github.com/joke2k/fakerI'm going to use it to generate fake names, addresses, etc... for when I need to fill up a little sqlite3 database.  If you're wanting to get into optimizing your SQL commands, you might want to generate a ton of data if you don't already have a bunch of info already.  It could also come in handy when generating fake names, businesses, etc for phishing and scamming emails (if you're into that sort of thing). You can also generate fake user agents.

I also saw that you can run it with certain locales and the info will be generated specifically for that locale (ru_RU generates Cyrillic names and addresses with proper phone numbers, etc.. and de_DE generates German info.  It defaults to en_EN)

I know the idea of a faker isn't new (even if it is new to me), in fact in the readme it states that it was heavily inspired by the ruby's Faker Perl's Data::Faker, and PHP's Faker (links to all of those in the readme); however, this one's in python, a language that I actually know. 

P.S. Should this go in the security tools board? Or the found it on the webs board?  I'm not sure.

[Kulverstukas]

Interesting stuff thanks for the share. Not really useful to me tho
I've been using this link in the past: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

Also moved it to found it on the webs.

[vezzy]

Interesting stuff thanks for the share. Not really useful to me tho
I've been using this link in the past: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

The faker tool linked here is for completely different purposes.

It's to generate realistic filler data for uses like fuzzing, stress testing and so on to see how an application can handle it (like to test database performance). It's not primarily meant to be used to generate fake data for user accounts, although it can be. It's much convenient to have a programmable interface with which to generate data directly when writing a bot than to copy and paste or scrape data from websites.

You can generate random realistic data for every session, as an example.

[pl0tuS]

http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

THANK YOU!
I wanted this site like a week ago and forgot the name. I remember somebody (maybe it was you) posting this on IRC.