csvfaker

Generate CSV files with fake data.

Usage

csvfaker [-h] [-f] [-r ROWS] [-l LOCALE] [-s SEED] [-n]
         [-p REPLACE_NEWLINE] [-d DELIMITER] [--version]
         [FAKE [FAKE ...]]

positional arguments:
  FAKE                  The name of the fake(s) to use to generate output,
                        separated by space. Will also be used as column
                        headers. If omitted, the fakes 'name job state' will
                        be used.

optional arguments:
  -f, --list-fakes      Show a list of all available fakes.
  -r ROWS, --rows ROWS  Number of rows to generate. If omitted it defaults to
                        10.
  -l LOCALE, --locale LOCALE
                        Locale to use. Examples: 'en_US', 'es'.
  -s SEED, --seed SEED  Seed to use. Generated result will be the same when
                        called with the same seed.
  -n, --no-headers-row  Do not output columns headers.
  -p REPLACE_NEWLINE, --replace-newline REPLACE_NEWLINE
                        Replace newline character with provided string.
  -d DELIMITER, --delimiter DELIMITER
                        Output column delimiter.

Examples

Generate a CSV file with 100 names

csvfaker --rows 100 name > names.csv

Generate 100 rows of first names, last names and job titles

csvfaker -r 100 first_name last_name job

Generate 100 rows of first names and last names in Spanish

csvfaker -r100 --locale=es first_name last_name

Generate 100 cities of Spain

csvfaker -r100 --locale=es_ES city

Generate 100 Russian names

csvfaker -r100 -l ru name

Generate 100 rows of latitudes and longitudes. Do not output headers row

csvfaker -r 100 --no-headers latitude longitude

Generate 100 rows of names and addresses. Replace generated newline characters with a comma and space

csvfaker -r 100 name address --replace-newline=', '

Show a list of all available generator properties

csvfaker --list-fakes

Installation

pip install csvfaker

or

pip3 install csvfaker

Fake providers

This uses the Faker (https://github.com/joke2k/faker) package. For a list of all available generator properties (like name and address) see the documentation: http://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/providers.html

Author

Copyright 2016 Pere Orga

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.