Generate Fake Data That Don't Change

I'm creating a temporary GraphQL backend, that should serve mocked data. E.g. I need ~500 objects of the model Person (with firstName, lastName, email, country, etc), where the pro

Solution 1:

You can easily create your custom JSON with https://next.json-generator.com/ which allows using internal scripts for data generation

Here is an example of generating a list of names: https://next.json-generator.com/Vk95XL5mv

Solution 2:

Not sure if this is exactly what you want, but I discovered this site: https://crudpi.io/ this weekend, you can mock some data in a JSON file and use it for your API. I guess that it's limited to 100 objects or something, but if you need the same data, you can copy it 5 times I guess. Hope it helps!

I wish that I could write this as a comment but I don't have enough reputation yet.

Solution 3:

Here's an API. https://uinames.com/api/?amount=500

You should easily just create a script, add the data you got from this to a temp-database.

Solution 4:

You can use a generator like https://randomuser.me/ Make a loop to create your object then keep the result in a file to ensure the data will be the same.

You can get an exemple here : https://gist.github.com/Yexan/cb8b79390e01272a4912fb4d6773ee1a

I used https://randomuser.me/api/?results=500