Fakeum — Generate fake test datasets in Alfred

[deanishe]

Fakeum

Generate fake test data in Alfred for testing.



Download

Get the workflow from GitHub.


Usage
 

• fake [<query>] — List/filter available fake data types
  • ↩, ⌘+C or ⌘+NUM — Copy one fake datum to clipboard
  • ⌘+↩ — Paste fake datum into frontmost app
  • ⇥ — Specify number of datasets to copy to clipboard
  • ⌘+L — Show generated data in Alfred's Large Text window
• fakeconfig [<query>] — Activate and deactivate locales for fake data
  • ↩ — Toggle selected locale on or off

If you specify multiple data, e.g. fake Name 〉 10 for 10 names, the data
will be separated by newlines (\n).

In the case of Paragraph and Address types, the data will be separated
by two newlines (\n\n).

Supported data types and locales

See the GitHub page for details.

Edited July 31, 2019 by deanishe
Remove Packal link

[40-02]

Awesome! I like it!

[jdevaud]

I like it too but cannot get multiple values to generate. The instructions say to use the tab key ⇥, but that just highlights the command. Which key allows you to enter the number of datasets?

[deanishe]

The ⇥ action is built in to Alfred. It shouldn't highlight anything, and the workflow can't affect its the way it works, AFAIK.
 
Could you enter fake catch in Alfred's query box and tell me what Alfred shows in its results list and also in the debugger?

[andy]

Really useful. Thanks!

[deanishe]

Minor update to change the arrow delimiter to a multiplication sign, which makes more sense.

 

Enter fake workflow:update in Alfred to get the new version.

[deanishe]

Big update to version 2.0.

• Many new locales
• Update Alfred-Workflow
• Number of sentences per paragraph now configurable
• Add useful links to fakeconf
• Make keyword configurable via configuration sheet

Edited December 2, 2017 by deanishe

[40-02]

I got an error like this:

ERROR    No module named docopt

https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-fakeum/issues/5

 

I found the solution to install in terminal (with sudo):

pip install docopt

 

Edited December 3, 2017 by 40-02

[40-02]

But now I have a problem - that python process hangs up. Many python processes had heavy CPU usage. 

Tried this workflow https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-fixum/

But it doesn't help. 

[deanishe]

Thanks for spotting the docopt issue. Fixed in v2.0.1.

Edited December 3, 2017 by deanishe

[deanishe]

4 hours ago, 40-02 said:

But now I have a problem - that python process hangs up. Many python processes had heavy CPU usage. 

Tried this workflow https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-fixum/

But it doesn't help. 

 

No, Fixum won't help because it has the same version of the library. This isn't that bug.

 

I can't get the workflow to misbehave in that way. Could you kill the offending Python processes and see if it happens again?

 

Also, which version of macOS are you running?

[40-02]

On 03/12/2017 at 1:49 PM, deanishe said:

I can't get the workflow to misbehave in that way. Could you kill the offending Python processes and see if it happens again?

 

Also, which version of macOS are you running?

 

 

I killed python process and when I tried to use today's fakeum again - everything repeated. 

My OS is High Sierra 10.13.1 (the latest one). 

I'm one of those users who try to tweak their computer in many ways, even if they don't understand what exactly they do. So, I might mess up with python by myself. And maybe my problem is very specific:(

[deanishe]

22 minutes ago, 40-02 said:

And maybe my problem is very specific:(

 

It sounds like a re-occurence of the Sierra bug. I did change that section of the code in the latest release of Alfred-Workflow (which Fakeum uses).

 

I haven't had any issues on El Cap or Sierra, but I don't have High Sierra to test it on (and I'm not going to install it, as it's still rotten with bugs).

 

At this point, I'd like to wait and see if anybody else is having the same issue (which should soon become apparent, as Fixum—the workflow that fixes the Sierra bug—also installs the latest version of Alfred-Workflow). If they are, I'll back out the changes to the forking code.

[deanishe]

@40-02 I think I've fixed the problem you're having. Could you try v2.1?

[40-02]

3 hours ago, deanishe said:

@40-02 I think I've fixed the problem you're having. Could you try v2.1?

It works! Thank you so much! 

[deanishe]

Awesome. It was just a dumb mistake on my part.

[40-02]

@deanishe , thanks for fast reaction!

[selfmade69]

Isnt it possible to generate only USA based addresses and infos?

[deanishe]

4 minutes ago, selfmade69 said:

Isnt it possible to generate only USA based addresses and infos?

 

Yes.

[selfmade69]

29 minutes ago, deanishe said:

 

Yes.

 

If so, then how? Please advice

[deanishe]

Have you tried reading and following the instructions linked above?  

[Bhishan]

Can we change the default separator from `\n` to python list?

 

For example:

 

fake name tab 5 shoud give:

`['name0', 'name1', 'name2', 'name3', 'name4']` 

[deanishe]

38 minutes ago, Bhishan said:

Can we change the default separator from `\n` to python list?

 

Absolutely. The workflow's open source, so you can change it any way you want.

[Eiffel]

Hello,

 

I am sorry but "newbie in progress"…

 

I have just installed Fakeum on my newly installed AlfredApp (on a totally new MacBook Pro M1 - MacOS Monterey).

Fakeum seems to be correctly installed on Alfred (Present in "workflows")…

 

…but I can't succeed to generate any fake data. 

I am a little bit lost…

 

Any help would be most welcome.

 

Very best

 

Eiffel

[vitor]

@Eiffel See Making Python 2 Workflows work on macOS Monterey 12.3 and above.