positional arguments:

fake

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)

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--version

show program's version number and exit

-o output

redirect output to a file

-l LOCALE, --lang LOCALE

specify the language for a localized provider (e.g. de_DE)

-r REPEAT, --repeat REPEAT

generate the specified number of outputs

-s SEP, --sep SEP

use the specified separator after each output

-i [INCLUDE [INCLUDE ...]], --include [INCLUDE [INCLUDE ...]]

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:

bg_BG, bs_BA, cs_CZ, de_AT, de_DE, dk_DK, el_GR, en, en_AU, en_CA, en_GB, en_US, es, es_ES, es_MX, fa_IR, fi_FI, fr_CH, fr_FR, hi_IN, hr_HR, it_IT, ja_JP, ko_KR, la, lt_LT, lv_LV, ne_NP, nl_BE, nl_NL, no_NO, pl_PL, pt_BR, pt_PT, ru_RU, sk_SK, sl_SI, sv_SE, tr_TR, uk_UA, zh_CN, zh_TW

faker can take a locale as an argument, to return localized data. If no localized provider is found, the factory falls back to the default en_US locale.

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;