fakesocial
Fake social network using generated content.
See https://berfr.github.io/posts/fakesocial for more info.
Setup
# Setup virtual environment and install dependencies
python -m venv venv && . venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Generated site located under `site/` directory by default
python -m fakesocial
python -m http.server -d site
open http://localhost:8000/Content sources
- Job titles: https://github.com/jneidel/job-titles
- Names: https://github.com/treyhunner/names
- Nasdaq listings: https://datahub.io/core/nasdaq-listings
- Profile pictures: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
- Quotes: https://www.kaggle.com/coolcoder22/quotes-dataset
- World cities: https://datahub.io/core/world-cities
Content generators
- Markovify: https://github.com/jsvine/markovify
- random module: https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html
Configuration
These options can be set in a JSON file and specified with the --config-file FILENAME argument or can be passed using the --config key1=value1 key2=value2 argument.
| key name | description |
|---|---|
db_file |
Specify which database file to use. This is useful to save current state. If file contains data, fakesocial will continue where is left off. |
number_of_events |
The total number of events to create. |
output_dir |
Which directory to place generated website. |
start_date |
The date where events start off. Ex: 2010-01-25. |