faker VS Selenium Wire

Faker was originally written in Perl and is also available as a library for Ruby, Java, and Python.

Faker: a library that generates fake data that can be useful when you need data to test for various components.

Don't get me wrong, LLMs are awesome but totally unsuited for what you are describing. Classic data science tools like faker will be better for the task in pretty much every aspect. They can generate synthetic datasets and anonymize existing ones faster and far more reliable than any LLM.

The Python package, Faker, is just what you're looking for!

for datatypes like string/date and other stuff, there is a Python library called faker, which you can use. It can generate fake names, fake phone numbers, dates, and addresses. here is the link to the documentation. https://faker.readthedocs.io/ here is a link to a blog post explaining Faker. https://levelup.gitconnected.com/pythons-faker-library-your-go-to-solution-for-test-data-generation-3a070065cc04

Then test cases became more complex. Primary data sources were often files. We needed to test pipelines. Faker still helped a lot, but it was not convenient to copy your last-best-approach for files and reinvent the wheel over and over with each project.

For a cloud-based solution, one can write their own Terraform or CloudFormation for installation as soon as their RDS instance boots up with appropriate security and authentication details. For a local dev environment, one can rely on Faker to create mock database data for your database.

Creating realistic fake data is useful in lower environments and for load testing. Outside of SQL I like faker: https://github.com/joke2k/faker

To test a database, first you need some data. So I created a python script and used Faker to create the following CSV files:

Maybe the next step is combining selenium with network capture ability like in selenium-wire: https://github.com/wkeeling/selenium-wire ?

Perhaps https://github.com/wkeeling/selenium-wire helps.

Ugh, tough one. In that case, there's a module called seleniumwire(exclusive to Python), it might be able to help you out with what you need; check it out.

Firstly, you’ll need to install Selenium Wire to extend Selenium’s Python bindings because using the default Selenium module for implementing proxies that require authentication makes the whole process complicated. You can do it using the pip command:

Before I was using selenium-wire which has a very easy way to get this information:

The problem is Selenium does not support adding headers. A third-party solution like Selenium Wire might solve it. Install it with pip install selenium-wire.

You can do that with selenium-wire: https://github.com/wkeeling/selenium-wire