# Faker

Python package that generates fake data for tests, database seeding and anonymized datasets.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/faker-python/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-08
Listed since: 2026-11-08

## Record

### Links

- home: https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
- repository: https://github.com/joke2k/faker
- docs: https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
- plugins: https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/communityproviders.html

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Daniele Faraglia
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2010
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: testing
- hosting: not applicable
- language: python
- runtime: python
- runtimeMin: python 3.10
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: pip, from PyPI

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 40
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-28

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 19486
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 413
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 15807
- dependentPackages: 382

### Sources

- name: https://github.com/joke2k/faker/blob/master/README.rst (read 2026-11-08)
- urls: https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ (read 2026-11-08)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/joke2k/faker (read 2026-11-08)
- urls: https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ (read 2026-11-08)
- maintainer: https://github.com/joke2k/faker/blob/master/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-11-08)
- firstRelease: https://pypi.org/pypi/Faker/json (read 2026-11-08)
- category: https://github.com/joke2k/faker/blob/master/README.rst (read 2026-11-08)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/joke2k/faker (read 2026-11-08)
- runtime: https://pypi.org/pypi/Faker/json (read 2026-11-08)
- runtimeMin: https://pypi.org/pypi/Faker/json (read 2026-11-08)
- installMethod: https://github.com/joke2k/faker/blob/master/README.rst (read 2026-11-08)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/joke2k/faker (read 2026-11-08)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/joke2k/faker/blob/master/README.rst (read 2026-11-08)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/joke2k/faker/releases (read 2026-11-08)
- latestReleaseDate: https://pypi.org/pypi/Faker/json (read 2026-11-08)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/joke2k/faker (read 2026-11-08)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/joke2k/faker/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-11-08)
- urls: https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ (read 2026-11-08)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/Faker (read 2026-11-08)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/Faker (read 2026-11-08)

## Notes

Faker is a Python package that generates fake data. It is installed with pip from PyPI, and its [extended docs](https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) list the bundled providers and the [community providers](https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/communityproviders.html).

The LICENSE file names Daniele Faraglia as copyright holder, and the repository belongs to the joke2k account on GitHub.

## Worth knowing

The package was earlier published as fake-factory, which the README calls deprecated. The README asks that projects and their dependencies do not depend on the old package.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0