faker.js - Generate Massive Amounts of Fake Data

Generate massive amounts of fake data in Node.js and the browser.

Demo
https://cdn.rawgit.com/Marak/faker.js/master/examples/browser/index.html

Hosted API Microservice
http://faker.hook.io

Supports all Faker API Methods
Full-Featured Microservice
Hosted by hook.io

curl http://faker.hook.io?property=name.findName&locale=de

Usage

Browser

<script src = "faker.js" type = "text/javascript"></script>
<script>
  var randomName = faker.name.findName(); // Caitlyn Kerluke
  var randomEmail = faker.internet.email(); // [email protected]
  var randomCard = faker.helpers.createCard(); // random contact card containing many properties
</script>

Node.js

var faker = require('faker');

var randomName = faker.name.findName(); // Rowan Nikolaus
var randomEmail = faker.internet.email(); // [email protected]
var randomCard = faker.helpers.createCard(); // random contact card containing many properties

API

Faker.fake()
faker.js contains a super useful generator method Faker.fake for combining faker API methods using a mustache string format.
Example:

console.log(faker.fake("{{name.lastName}}, {{name.firstName}} {{name.suffix}}"));
// outputs: "Marks, Dean Sr."

This will interpolate the format string with the value of methods name.lastName(), name.firstName(), and name.suffix()

JSDoc API Browser
http://marak.github.io/faker.js/

API Methods

address
- zipCode
- city
- cityPrefix
- citySuffix
- streetName
- streetAddress
- streetSuffix
- streetPrefix
- secondaryAddress
- county
- country
- countryCode
- state
- stateAbbr
- latitude
- longitude
commerce
- color
- department
- productName
- price
- productAdjective
- productMaterial
- product
company
- suffixes
- companyName
- companySuffix
- catchPhrase
- bs
- catchPhraseAdjective
- catchPhraseDescriptor
- catchPhraseNoun
- bsAdjective
- bsBuzz
- bsNoun
database
- column
- type
- collation
- engine
date
- past
- future
- between
- recent
- month
- weekday
fake
finance
- account
- accountName
- mask
- amount
- transactionType
- currencyCode
- currencyName
- currencySymbol
- bitcoinAddress
- iban
- bic
hacker
- abbreviation
- adjective
- noun
- verb
- ingverb
- phrase
helpers
- randomize
- slugify
- replaceSymbolWithNumber
- replaceSymbols
- shuffle
- mustache
- createCard
- contextualCard
- userCard
- createTransaction
image
- image
- avatar
- imageUrl
- abstract
- animals
- business
- cats
- city
- food
- nightlife
- fashion
- people
- nature
- sports
- technics
- transport
- dataUri
internet
- avatar
- email
- exampleEmail
- userName
- protocol
- url
- domainName
- domainSuffix
- domainWord
- ip
- ipv6
- userAgent
- color
- mac
- password
lorem
- word
- words
- sentence
- slug
- sentences
- paragraph
- paragraphs
- text
- lines
name
- firstName
- lastName
- findName
- jobTitle
- prefix
- suffix
- title
- jobDescriptor
- jobArea
- jobType
phone
- phoneNumber
- phoneNumberFormat
- phoneFormats
random
- number
- arrayElement
- objectElement
- uuid
- boolean
- word
- words
- image
- locale
- alphaNumeric
system
- fileName
- commonFileName
- mimeType
- commonFileType
- commonFileExt
- fileType
- fileExt
- directoryPath
- filePath
- semver

Localization
As of version v2.0.0 faker.js has support for multiple localities.
The default language locale is set to English.
Setting a new locale is simple:

// sets locale to de
faker.locale = "de";

az
cz
de
de_AT
de_CH
en
en_AU
en_BORK
en_CA
en_GB
en_IE
en_IND
en_US
en_au_ocker
es
es_MX
fa
fr
fr_CA
ge
id_ID
it
ja
ko
nb_NO
nep
nl
pl
pt_BR
ru
sk
sv
tr
uk
vi
zh_CN
zh_TW

Individual Localization Packages
As of vesion v3.0.0 faker.js supports incremental loading of locales.
By default, requiring faker will include all locale data.
In a production environment, you may only want to include the locale data for a specific set of locales.

// loads only de locale
var faker = require('faker/locale/de');

Setting a randomness seed
If you want consistent results, you can set your own seed:

faker.seed(123);

var firstRandom = faker.random.number();

// Setting the seed again resets the sequence.
faker.seed(123);

var secondRandom = faker.random.number();

console.log(firstRandom === secondRandom);

Tests

npm install .
make test

You can view a code coverage report generated in coverage/lcov-report/index.html.

Projects Built with faker.js

Fake JSON Schema
Use faker generators to populate JSON Schema samples. See: https://github.com/pateketrueke/json-schema-faker/

CLI
Run faker generators from Command Line. See: https://github.com/lestoni/faker-cli
Want to see your project added here? Let us know!

Meteor

Meteor Installation

meteor add practicalmeteor:faker

Meteor Usage, both client and server

var randomName = faker.name.findName(); // Rowan Nikolaus
var randomEmail = faker.internet.email(); // [email protected]
var randomCard = faker.helpers.createCard(); // random contact card containing many properties

Building faker.js
faker uses gulp to automate it's build process. Running the following build command will generate new browser builds, documentation, and code examples for the project.