brianvoe/gofakeit

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Gofakeit is a random fake data generator library for Go offering 310+ functions for names, emails, phones, companies, credit cards, and more, with support for seeding, custom functions, templates, and struct auto-filling. The repository also ships a companion command-line tool and an HTTP server for generating fake data outside of Go code.

Use cases

• generate fake data for go unit tests
• seed a database with dummy records
• create random names and emails in golang
• populate structs with fake values using tags
• reproducible random data with a fixed seed
• fake data generator from the command line
• mock user data for local development

When to choose

• you write Go and need fake data with zero dependencies
• you need reproducible output by setting a seed
• you want to auto-populate structs with fake values
• you want a CLI or HTTP endpoint that serves random data
• you need a wide variety of data categories (300+ functions) from one library

When to avoid

• you need anonymized versions of real production data rather than synthetic values
• you are not in the Go ecosystem and prefer a native faker library for your language (though the CLI/server partly mitigates this)
• you need highly locale-specific realistic datasets beyond what the provided functions cover

Facets

library · maturity stable

data-generation testing cli http-server developer-tools testing go cli cross-platform fake-data mock-data test-data faker seed reproducible-randomness struct-filling templates zero-dependencies dummy-data

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