go-randomdata

randomdata is a tiny help suite for generating random data such as

• first names (male or female)
• last names
• full names (male or female)
• country names (full name or iso 3166.1 alpha-2 or alpha-3)
• locales / language tags (bcp-47)
• random email address
• city names
• American state names (two chars or full)
• random numbers (in an interval)
• random paragraphs
• random bool values
• postal- or zip-codes formatted for a range of different countries.
• american sounding addresses / street names
• silly names - suitable for names of things
• random days
• random months
• random full date
• random full profile
• random date inside range
• random phone number

Installation

go get github.com/Pallinder/go-randomdata

Usage

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/Pallinder/go-randomdata"
)

func main() {
    // Print a random silly name
    fmt.Println(randomdata.SillyName())

    // Print a male title
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Title(randomdata.Male))

    // Print a female title
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Title(randomdata.Female))

    // Print a title with random gender
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Title(randomdata.RandomGender))

    // Print a male first name
    fmt.Println(randomdata.FirstName(randomdata.Male))

    // Print a female first name
    fmt.Println(randomdata.FirstName(randomdata.Female))

    // Print a last name
    fmt.Println(randomdata.LastName())

    // Print a male name
    fmt.Println(randomdata.FullName(randomdata.Male))

    // Print a female name
    fmt.Println(randomdata.FullName(randomdata.Female))

    // Print a name with random gender
    fmt.Println(randomdata.FullName(randomdata.RandomGender))

    // Print an email
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Email())

    // Print a country with full text representation
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Country(randomdata.FullCountry))

    // Print a country using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Country(randomdata.TwoCharCountry))

    // Print a country using ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Country(randomdata.ThreeCharCountry))
    
    // Print BCP 47 language tag
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Locale())

    // Print a currency using ISO 4217
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Currency())

    // Print the name of a random city
    fmt.Println(randomdata.City())

    // Print the name of a random american state
    fmt.Println(randomdata.State(randomdata.Large))

    // Print the name of a random american state using two chars
    fmt.Println(randomdata.State(randomdata.Small))

    // Print an american sounding street name
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Street())

    // Print an american sounding address
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Address())

    // Print a random number >= 10 and < 20
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Number(10, 20))

    // Print a number >= 0 and < 20
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Number(20))

    // Print a random float >= 0 and < 20 with decimal point 3
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Decimal(0, 20, 3))

    // Print a random float >= 10 and < 20
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Decimal(10, 20))

    // Print a random float >= 0 and < 20
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Decimal(20))

    // Print a bool
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Boolean())

    // Print a paragraph
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Paragraph())

    // Print a postal code
    fmt.Println(randomdata.PostalCode("SE"))

    // Print a set of 2 random numbers as a string
    fmt.Println(randomdata.StringNumber(2, "-"))

    // Print a set of 2 random 3-Digits numbers as a string
    fmt.Println(randomdata.StringNumberExt(2, "-", 3))

    // Print a random string sampled from a list of strings
    fmt.Println(randomdata.StringSample("my string 1", "my string 2", "my string 3"))

    // Print a valid random IPv4 address
    fmt.Println(randomdata.IpV4Address())

    // Print a valid random IPv6 address
    fmt.Println(randomdata.IpV6Address())

    // Print a browser's user agent string
    fmt.Println(randomdata.UserAgentString())

    // Print a day
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Day())

    // Print a month
    fmt.Println(randomdata.Month())

    // Print full date like Monday 22 Aug 2016
    fmt.Println(randomdata.FullDate())

    // Print full date <= Monday 22 Aug 2016
    fmt.Println(randomdata.FullDateInRange("2016-08-22"))

    // Print full date >= Monday 01 Aug 2016 and <= Monday 22 Aug 2016
    fmt.Println(randomdata.FullDateInRange("2016-08-01", "2016-08-22"))

    // Print phone number according to e.164
    fmt.Println(randomdata.PhoneNumber())

    // Get a complete and randomised profile of data generally used for users
    // There are many fields in the profile to use check the Profile struct definition in fullprofile.go
    profile := randomdata.GenerateProfile(randomdata.Male | randomdata.Female | randomdata.RandomGender)
    fmt.Printf("The new profile's username is: %s and password (md5): %s\n", profile.Login.Username, profile.Login.Md5)

    // Get a random country-localised street name for Great Britain
    fmt.Println(randomdata.StreetForCountry("GB"))
    // Get a random country-localised street name for USA
    fmt.Println(randomdata.StreetForCountry("US"))

    // Get a random country-localised province for Great Britain
    fmt.Println(randomdata.ProvinceForCountry("GB"))
    // Get a random country-localised province for USA
    fmt.Println(randomdata.ProvinceForCountry("US"))
}

Versioning / Release Strategy

Go-Randomdata follows Semver

You can find current releases tagged under the releases section.

The CHANGELOG.md file contains the changelog of the project.

Contributors

• jteeuwen
• n1try

All the other contributors are listed here.