Mobile Banking Clickstream Faker Provider for Python

• Purpose
• Installation
• Usage
• Features

Purpose

This is a custom Faker provider for Python that generates clickstream session data from a mobile banking app.

Installation

The Clickstream Faker Provider for Python is available to install from PyPi using pip.

pip install faker_mobile_bank_clickstream

Usage

Sample code of Clickstream Provider usage.

from faker import Faker
from faker_mobile_bank_clickstream import ClickstreamProvider

fake = Faker()
fake.add_provider(ClickstreamProvider)
fake.session_clickstream()

# or...
fake.session_clickstream(rand_session_max_size=50)  # random number of events from 1 to 50

The session_clickstream() method returns an array of JSON objects that represents a unique web session. By default, is configured to return a random number of session events from the range of 1 through 25.

An example response object is the below:

[
  {
    "ip": "85.59.39.221",
    "user_id": 777198,
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/45.0.2454.68 Mobile/11D257 Safari/9537.53",
    "session_id": "d5cba274f7724780d1ed2b60650101892260748df21b0e2fb8b2b2fd88cedf23",
    "event_time": "28/03/2022 23:09:48.360212",
    "event_name": "Login"
  },
  {
    "ip": "85.59.39.221",
    "user_id": 777198,
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/45.0.2454.68 Mobile/11D257 Safari/9537.53",
    "session_id": "d5cba274f7724780d1ed2b60650101892260748df21b0e2fb8b2b2fd88cedf23",
    "event_time": "28/03/2022 23:14:13.360227",
    "event_name": "SelectTransfer"
  },
  {
    "ip": "85.59.39.221",
    "user_id": 777198,
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/45.0.2454.68 Mobile/11D257 Safari/9537.53",
    "session_id": "d5cba274f7724780d1ed2b60650101892260748df21b0e2fb8b2b2fd88cedf23",
    "event_time": "28/03/2022 23:17:49.360241",
    "event_name": "FillTransferDetails"
  },
  {
    "ip": "85.59.39.221",
    "user_id": 777198,
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/45.0.2454.68 Mobile/11D257 Safari/9537.53",
    "session_id": "d5cba274f7724780d1ed2b60650101892260748df21b0e2fb8b2b2fd88cedf23",
    "event_time": "28/03/2022 23:22:15.360252",
    "event_name": "CompleteTransfer"
  }
]

Features

Each user session includes some static data that are randomly calculated only once, such as the ip, user_agent, etc.

The events that are available on this clickstream are the following ones, and an event dependency has been configured to provide a more real representation of a web session flow:

• Login
• Logout
• ViewHome
• ViewAccounts
• ViewProducts
• SelectTransfer
• ViewTransactions
• ViewCreditCard
• ViewLoan
• ApplyCreditCard
• ApplyLoan
• FillCreditCardApplication
• FillLoanApplication
• SubmitCreditCardApplication
• SubmitLoanApplication
• FillTransferDetails
• CompleteTransfer