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FAKER(1) User Commands FAKER(1)

NAME

faker - command to generate fake data

DESCRIPTION

usage: faker [-h] [--version] [-v] [-o output] [-l LOCALE] [-r REPEAT]

[-s SEP] [--seed SEED] [-i [INCLUDE ...]] [fake] [fake argument ...]

faker version 0.9.3

positional arguments:

name of the fake to generate output for (e.g. profile)
fake argument
optional arguments to pass to the fake (e.g. the profile fake takes an optional list of comma separated field names as the first argument)

options:

show this help message and exit
show program's version number and exit
show INFO logging events instead of CRITICAL, which is the default. These logging events provide insight into localization of specific providers.
redirect output to a file
specify the language for a localized provider (e.g. de_DE)
generate the specified number of outputs
use the specified separator after each output
specify a seed for the random generator so that results are repeatable. Also compatible with 'repeat' option
list of additional custom providers to user, given as the import path of the module containing your Provider class (not the provider class itself)

supported locales:

ar_AA, ar_EG, ar_JO, ar_PS, ar_SA, bg_BG, bs_BA, cs_CZ, de_AT, de_CH, de_DE, dk_DK, el_CY, el_GR, en, en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, en_IE, en_NZ, en_TH, en_US, es, es_ES, es_MX, et_EE, fa_IR, fi_FI, fr_CH, fr_FR, he_IL, hi_IN, hr_HR, hu_HU, id_ID, it_IT, ja_JP, ka_GE, ko_KR, la, lb_LU, lt_LT, lv_LV, mt_MT, ne_NP, nl_BE, nl_NL, no_NO, pl_PL, pt_BR, pt_PT, ro_RO, ru_RU, sk_SK, sl_SI, sv_SE, th_TH, tr_TR, tw_GH, uk_UA, zh_CN, zh_TW
Faker can take a locale as an optional argument, to return localized data. If no locale argument is specified, the factory falls back to the user's OS locale as long as it is supported by at least one of the providers.
- for this user, the default locale is en_US.
If the optional argument locale and/or user's default locale is not available for the specified provider, the factory falls back to faker's default locale, which is en_US.

examples:

$ faker address
968 Bahringer Garden Apt. 722 Kristinaland, NJ 09890
$ faker -l de_DE address
Samira-Niemeier-Allee 56 94812 Biedenkopf
$ faker profile ssn,birthdate
{'ssn': u'628-10-1085', 'birthdate': '2008-03-29'}
$ faker -r=3 -s=";" name
Willam Kertzmann; Josiah Maggio; Gayla Schmitt;
July 2022 faker 0.9.3