Strapi plugin generate-data

This plugin is for generating data for your content-types for strapi v4 and v5. For strapi version v4 use plugin version 1 For strapi version v5 use plugin version 2

Features

• Supported field types: Generates fake data for the following field types:
  • string (including RegExp patterns)
  • email
  • richtext
  • integer
  • decimal
  • date
  • media (videos, images, audios, files)
  • boolean
  • enumeration
  • password
  • UID
  • relation
  • json
  • Works with all content types, including Strapi users
• Locale support: Generate localized fake data by selecting from multiple supported locales (English, German, Russian, French, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Polish, Dutch, Turkish). The locale selector is available in the Configuration section.
• Boolean fields: Control boolean value generation with three options:
  • Random: Generates random boolean values (default)
  • True: Always generates true
  • False: Always generates false
• Field selection: Choose which fields to include when generating data
• Data preview: Preview generated data in a table before uploading
• Draft & publish:
  • Creates content in draft mode if the content type supports draft & publish
  • Option to publish data directly if draft mode is enabled
• Data management: Flush existing data from a content type before uploading new generated data

Installations

To install this plugin, you need to add an NPM dependency to your Strapi application:

# Using Yarn
yarn add strapi-plugin-generate-data

# Or using NPM
npm install strapi-plugin-generate-data

It should be activated by default, but if you don't have it in your admin then enable the plugin manually in config/plugins

{
    ...,
    "generate-data": {
        enabled: true,
    },
}

Possible issues

1. If you don't see generated images on ui and see in console error like content security policy for each image url then you need to update middleware strapi::security in config/middlewares like

...,
 {
    name: "strapi::security",
    config: {
      contentSecurityPolicy: {
        useDefaults: true,
        directives: {
          "connect-src": ["'self'", "https:"],
          "img-src": ["'self'", "data:", "blob:", `https://loremflickr.com/`],
          upgradeInsecureRequests: null,
        },
      },
    },
  },
...

2. If you have issue with upload data locally try to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost
3. If you have issue with no Generate data plugin in left panel, try to run strapi build command it will build your app with plugins

Environment

• Strapi

Future plans

• Custom fields
• Dynamic zones
• Components
• Better date controls: Calendar picker, relative dates ("last 30 days")
• Copy/paste generated data
• Statistics: Show data distribution, unique values count, etc.
• Inline cell editing
• Recent activity: "last generated 50 articles, 50 minutes ago"
• Regenerate only specific field field