Data::...nternet(3pm)
β¨ NAME β¨
Data::Faker::Internet β it's a Data::Faker plugin, bestie π and yes, this manual page is the one everyone shortens to Data::...nternet(3pm) because terminal widths are haters. It's giving "fake internet data generator" and honestly? iconic. π
πΈ SYNOPSIS AND USAGE πΈ
okay so literally all you need to do is go look at Data::Faker π¦. That's the whole vibe. The usage lives over there, this page is just the plug telling you what it can fake for you.
not me giving you a whole section that just says "see the other thing" π but fr fr that's where the how-to is, bestie.
π DATA PROVIDERS π
these are all the little methods this plugin hands you. every single one of them is your bestie for generating fake-but-plausible internet things. no cap. π«Ά
emailβ hands you a fake email address π§. that's it. that's the whole job. slay.usernameβ hands you a fake username π. perfect for pretending you'rexX_dragonz_Xxwhen you're not.hostnameβ hands you a fake computer hostname π».server_nameβ hands you a fake server name β¨ β and the way it does that is by taking some service name (think things likemail,dns, etc.) and prepending it to a fake domain name. so cute, so useful.network_serviceβ hands you a random network service name π. heads up though: only the fairly common services are in the list, so don't come for it when you don't get something obscure π.domain_nameβ hands you a fakedomain_nameπ.domain_wordβ hands you a random word that meets the requirements for being part of a domain name π€. it's domain-word-shaped, periodt.domain_suffixβ hands you a random domain suffix (.com,.net,.co.uk.etc) πΈ. yes, the.co.uk.has that trailing dot, that's just how it's written here, don't @ me.ip_addressβ hands you a random IP Address π‘. it's giving "numbers, dots, mystery."
π¦ SEE ALSO π¦
Data::Fakerβ the main character, the parent, the whole reason this plugin exists π
π AUTHOR π
Jason Kohles, <email@jasonkohles.com> β the legend who wrote this. give them their flowers π
π COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE π
Copyright 2004-2005 by Jason Kohles
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. so like, go off bestie, it's free β¨
and that's the whole page! π this was served up by perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-22, and yeah it's still filed under that cursed truncated name Data::...nternet(3pm) because the man page header simply refused to spell it out ππ ily, go fake some emails π«Ά
π¦ where this page comes from
- ubuntu noble: libdata-faker-perl 0.10-4 Β· Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: libdata-faker-perl 0.10-4 Β· Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: libdata-faker-perl 0.10-4 Β· Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms