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Fake projects on GitHub

Generating fake data and mock records for development and tests.

As of , the most-starred Fake projects on GitHub are json-server (75.7K stars), dns-blocklists (27.6K stars) and faker (19.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Fake repositories with 173.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was dns-blocklists, with +50 stars in a day.

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173.9KStars in total
+66Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+50

dns-blocklists

hagezi/dns-blocklists · ★ 27.6K

A set of DNS blocklists that block ads, trackers, telemetry, phishing, malware, scams and other junk domains network-wide. They work for any region and with every common DNS server, ad blocker, and content blocker.

+5

faker

joke2k/faker · ★ 19.4K

Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you — for bootstrapping a database, creating XML documents, stress-testing persistence layers, or anonymizing data taken from a production service.

+3

genact

svenstaro/genact · ★ 12.2K

genact is a nonsense activity generator that fakes running intensive terminal tasks (compiling, downloading, bruteforcing, etc.) so you look busy without doing any real work.

+2

json-server

typicode/json-server · ★ 75.7K

json-server lets you spin up a fully working fake REST API in under 30 seconds, with no backend code to write — just a single JSON file defining your data.

The all-time top

13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · typicode/json-server

    json-server

    json-server lets you spin up a fully working fake REST API in under 30 seconds, with no backend code to write — just a single JSON file defining your data.

    75.7K
  2. #2 · hagezi/dns-blocklists

    dns-blocklists

    A set of DNS blocklists that block ads, trackers, telemetry, phishing, malware, scams and other junk domains network-wide. They work for any region and with every common DNS server, ad blocker, and content blocker.

    27.6K
  3. #3 · joke2k/faker

    faker

    Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you — for bootstrapping a database, creating XML documents, stress-testing persistence layers, or anonymizing data taken from a production service.

    19.4K
  1. 4

    faker

    15.5Kfaker-js/faker · TypeScript

    Faker is a JavaScript/TypeScript library that generates massive amounts of fake but realistic data — names, addresses, dates, finance records — for testing and development, in the browser and Node.js.

  2. 5

    genact

    12.2Ksvenstaro/genact · Rust

    genact is a nonsense activity generator that fakes running intensive terminal tasks (compiling, downloading, bruteforcing, etc.) so you look busy without doing any real work.

  3. 6

    faker

    11.9Kfaker-ruby/faker · Ruby

    Faker is a Ruby library that generates realistic-looking fake data (names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and more) for testing, demos, and seeding databases.

  4. 7

    fresh-start

    6.2Knirholas/fresh-start

    This is the repository formerly known as nirholas/claude-code, the most widely forked mirror of the Claude Code source leak from 31 March 2026. The leaked source itself was stripped out after Anthropic's DMCA notice, which has not been retracted, so the repo now just explains what happened.

  5. 8

    GuJumpgate

    3.9KFoundZiGu/GuJumpgate · JavaScript

    GuJumpgate is an archived Chrome extension that automated account registration and payment flows for a target platform - creating a Free account, upgrading it to Plus through a PayPal-via-Stripe billing chain, and managing Hotmail/Outlook email aliases. It stopped being maintained on 2026-07-11.

  6. 9

    github-farm

    354d4ncboz/github-farm · Python

    It is an automation framework that farms GitHub OAuth signup bonuses across multiple AI-gateway platforms (Tabi AI, GoRouter, CodeBuddy Global) by generating email aliases, catching their OTP codes over IMAP, and harvesting the resulting OAuth sessions.

  7. 10

    Power-Director

    252OverlordPrize/Power-Director

    This repository distributes a pre-activated standalone installer for CyberLink PowerDirector 14.5, a commercial professional video-editing program, bundled with a PowerShell setup script instead of the real installer.

  8. 11

    Wise-Care

    252ScorpionPlan/Wise-Care

    This repo distributes a 'pre-activated standalone' installer for Wise Care, a Windows PC optimization and maintenance tool, claiming to bypass its normal registration and evaluation limits.

  9. 12

    Uttorent

    250RiggerVitalize/Uttorent

    A pre-activated standalone Windows installer package for 'Uttorent' (a uTorrent-style torrent client), version 1.4, bundled to run offline without any registration or activation steps.

  10. 13

    Discord-Server-Cloner

    250StoneSniperStrip/Discord-Server-Cloner

    It claims to be a Windows desktop installer that clones Discord servers, distributed as a 'pre-activated standalone build' rather than source code.

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