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faker

Generate massive amounts of fake contextual data

v6.6.6, 5 Jan 2022MITCommonJSTypes: None
$ npm install faker

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
1.6m
-5% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
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No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
0
Direct, from package.json
Last release
4 years ago
v6.6.6
GitHub stars
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Open issues / PRs
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Contributors
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Commits, last 52 weeks
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Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
01m2m3mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 2.7m (17 Mar 2026)Low 1m (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

1,565,245 downloads last week, 7,905,526 in the last month. The 12-month change of -5% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
029 in total
Latest version
6.6.6, 5 Jan 20224 years ago
First published
24 Nov 2013
Last push to GitHub
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Repository archived
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Open issues
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Open pull requests
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Commits, last 52 weeks
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Dependents on npm
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Major versions

  1. v6 first release 6.6.6, 5 Jan 2022
  2. v5 first release 5.0.0, 23 Aug 2020
  3. v4 first release 4.0.0, 21 Feb 2017
  4. v3 first release 3.0.0, 10 Jul 2015
  5. v2 first release 2.0.0, 30 Sept 2014
  6. v1 first release 1.0.0, 21 May 2014

Recent releases

VersionPublished
6.6.65 Jan 2022
5.5.38 Apr 2021
5.5.230 Mar 2021
5.5.127 Mar 2021
5.5.025 Mar 2021
5.4.010 Feb 2021
5.3.12 Feb 2021
5.3.02 Feb 2021
5.2.025 Jan 2021
5.1.026 Aug 2020
5.0.023 Aug 2020
4.1.021 Feb 2017
4.0.021 Feb 2017
3.1.021 Mar 2016
Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
None
Node.js engine range
Not declared
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
3.7 kB
Dependencies (0)
None
npm install faker

CDN

jsDelivr: 92.1k requests in 30 days
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/faker@6.6.6/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/faker@6.6.6/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/faker@6.6.6
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

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