├── README.md
└── FakeRandomEmails.py


/README.md:
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1 | # Fake-Email-Generator
2 | A simple python script to generate many fake email addresses on the fly and save them to a CSV file for testing
3 | 


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/FakeRandomEmails.py:
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 1 | '''make sure you pip install progressbar'''
 2 | 
 3 | 
 4 | import random
 5 | import string
 6 | import csv
 7 | import progressbar
 8 | 
 9 | '''
10 | Asks user for how many fake emails they want generated. Must be Integer. Duh.
11 | If not an integer, keeps recursively cycling back until it gets an integer. 
12 | '''
13 | def getcount():
14 | 	rownums = input("How many fake email addresses?: ")
15 | 	try:
16 | 		rowint = int(rownums)
17 | 		return rowint
18 | 	except ValueError:
19 | 		print ("Please enter an integer value")
20 | 		return getcount()
21 | 
22 | '''
23 | Creates a random string of digits between 1 and 20 characters alphanumeric and adds it to a fake domain and fake extension
24 | Most of these emails are completely bogus (eg - gmail.gov) but will meet formatting requirements for my purposes
25 | '''
26 | def makeEmail():
27 | 	extensions = ['com','net','org','gov']
28 | 	domains = ['gmail','yahoo','comcast','verizon','charter','hotmail','outlook','frontier']
29 | 
30 | 	winext = extensions[random.randint(0,len(extensions)-1)]
31 | 	windom = domains[random.randint(0,len(domains)-1)]
32 | 
33 | 	acclen = random.randint(1,20)
34 | 
35 | 	winacc = ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits) for _ in range(acclen))
36 | 
37 | 	finale = winacc + "@" + windom + "." + winext
38 | 	return finale
39 | 
40 | #save count to var
41 | howmany = getcount()
42 | 
43 | #counter for While loop
44 | counter = 0
45 | 
46 | #empty array for loop
47 | emailarray = []
48 | 
49 | #uses counter to figure out how many emails to keep making
50 | 
51 | print ("Creating email addresses...")
52 | print ("Progress: ")
53 | 
54 | prebar = progressbar.ProgressBar(maxval=int(howmany))
55 | 
56 | for i in prebar(range(howmany)):
57 | 	while counter <= howmany:
58 | 		emailarray.append(str(makeEmail()))
59 | 		counter = counter+1
60 | 		prebar.update(i)
61 | 	
62 | print ("Creation completed.")
63 | 
64 | #user input for filename. Can even take in a file path, pending you have permission to write there
65 | filename = input("name your file: ")
66 | 
67 | '''
68 | Acutally writes to file here.
69 | uses WA which will write and append the file. If the file doesn't exist, this will create it. 
70 | Will write email addresses to array one per row which is why the array is important. 
71 | Once complete, will close the file. 
72 | '''
73 | print ("Progress: ")
74 | 
75 | bar = progressbar.ProgressBar(maxval=int(howmany))
76 | 	
77 | emailfile = open(str(filename), 'w')
78 | aa = csv.writer(emailfile)
79 | for emailaddr in bar(emailarray):
80 | 	aa.writerow([emailaddr])
81 | 	bar.update()
82 | emailfile.close()
83 | 
84 | print ("File '" + filename + "' created.")
85 | 


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