potemkin.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import print_function
import json
import sys
from datetime import timedelta, datetime
from random import randint, choice

countries = ('US', 'GB', 'FR', 'DE',)
dlc = ('CSAIL', 'DUSP', 'Lincoln Lab',)
user_agents = ('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/30.0.1599.114 Chrome/30.0.1599.114 Safari/537.36',)


def random_date(start, end):
    delta = randint(0, int((end - start).total_seconds()))
    return start + timedelta(seconds=delta)

def create_request():

    request = {}
    request['ip_address'] = '18.1.1.1'
    request['time'] = random_date(datetime(2009, 1, 1), datetime.now()).isoformat()
    request['request'] = 'http://example.com/id/{}'.format(randint(0, 100))
    request['status'] = 200
    request['referer'] = "http://example.com/"
    request['user_agent'] = choice(user_agents)
    request['dlc'] = choice(dlc)
    request['author'] = "http://example.com/author/{}".format(randint(1000, 1200))
    request['handle'] = "http://example.com/handle/{}".format(randint(0,100))
    request['country'] = choice(countries)

    return request

if __name__ == "__main__":

    requests = sys.argv[1]

    for i in range(0, int(requests)):
        print(json.dumps(create_request()))