# Is there any fake data to be used to test a plugin?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-fake-data-to-be-used-to-test-a-plugin/78784
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [January 23, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-fake-data-to-be-used-to-test-a-plugin/78784 "2018-01-23T17:39:02Z")
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### Author: ![saiqulhaq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/saiqulhaq/32/119871_2.png) [@saiqulhaq](https://meta.discourse.org/u/saiqulhaq)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-fake-data-to-be-used-to-test-a-plugin/78784/1 "2018-01-23T17:39:02Z")

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Hi all

actually it’s been on my head few times  
I am wondering is there any public dataset of Discourse site that can be used?  
similar like [FakerPress – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fakerpress/) or [WP Dummy Post Generator – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dummy-post-generator) on wordpress

so it’s like using real dataset when developing a plugin

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-fake-data-to-be-used-to-test-a-plugin/78784/3 "2018-01-23T18:43:27Z")

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A long while ago, I think @sam had given someone such a sample data set that they were going to anonymize, but I can’t figure out how to search for it.

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-fake-data-to-be-used-to-test-a-plugin/78784/4 "2018-01-23T18:45:54Z")

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Ha! I had the same problem finding the topic. It’s [How Sam's Windows development environment is configured - #7 by sam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-sams-development-environment-is-configured/62444/7). We’ll need to wait for Sam to confirm what happened…

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-fake-data-to-be-used-to-test-a-plugin/78784/5 "2018-01-23T18:48:47Z")

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When I was developing the print function, I changed this file [discourse/script/user\_simulator.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/script/user_simulator.rb) for my needs.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-fake-data-to-be-used-to-test-a-plugin/78784/6 "2018-01-23T23:55:13Z")

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I recall @elijah started working on the sanitized export but do not think this ever got finished.

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### Author: ![saiqulhaq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/saiqulhaq/32/119871_2.png) [@saiqulhaq](https://meta.discourse.org/u/saiqulhaq)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-fake-data-to-be-used-to-test-a-plugin/78784/7 "2018-01-24T02:37:11Z")

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ok thanks  
I think I can follow what @Falco does