fakesocial

Fake social network using generated content.

See https://francisbergin.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.