Piwik VisitorGenerator Plugin

Description

Plugin to create fake visits, websites, users and goals. This can be used by Piwik users or developers as an easy way to generate fake data to populate Piwik reports.

You can overwrite the log files that are used to generate fake visits in plugins/VisitorGenerator/data or add new logs to the data directory. All files ending with *.log will be replayed.

Usage

UI

The plugin adds a new item to the Piwik admin UI visible only for users having Super User access under the section "Diagnostic". There you can select a site and for how many days in the past you want to generate new visits.

CLI

It also adds the following commands to the Piwik CLI tool:

• Generate visits
• Generate goals
• Generate users
• Generate websites

Examples

• ./console visitorgenerator:generate-goals --idsite 5 generates some predefined goals for site with id 5
• ./console visitorgenerator:generate-users --limit 100 generates 100 users
• ./console visitorgenerator:generate-websites --limit 100 generates 100 websites
• ./console visitorgenerator:generate-visits --idsite 5 generates many visits for site with id 5 for today
• ./console visitorgenerator:generate-visits --idsite 5 --days 2 generates many visits for site with id 5 for today and yesterday

Changelog

• 1.0 Initial release
• 1.1 New features:
  • Added CLI commands
  • Added possibility to generate websites, users and goals
  • Replay all log files within the data directory

Support

Please direct any feedback to hello@piwik.org

Legalnotice

This plugin is released under the GPLv3+ license.

This plugin uses the Faker library which is released under the MIT license.