Username Generator

Generates a random username given format from the user.

You can specify what format you want to use by giving the order and type of chunks of the username.

• A - Adjective
• N - Noun
• V - Verb

Getting started

First we'll generate some pickle files that need to be in the pre-generated-lists/ directory. This only needs to be done the first time or when you update a custom corpus.

Run:

• pip install -r requirements.txt
• python update-pregenerated-lists.py

This will generate tagged word lists for every built in corpus that is eligible in ntlk, as well as any custom corpus in custom-corpora/.

Sample output:

By default, the username generated will be of the form A N, or AdjectiveNoun.

dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py
BronchialBargain
dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py
RelativeRefrigerator
dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py
AngryMauch
dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py
FirmerThought
dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py
AtomicRefrigeration

You can also specify exactly what you want the username to look like:

dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py A N A N
ManySympathyBiggerHotel
dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py A N A N
WaryAssistanceSameApproach
dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py A N A N
WrongGloriesScalarKatie

You can also specify A,N,V from a specific custom corpus (body of text) in the custom-corpora/ directory. For instance, if I have a directory called custom-corpora/pokemon/, I can specify by:

python generate_username.py pokemon-N or python generate_username.py pokemon-V

dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py A pokemon-N
GladPikachu
dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py A pokemon-N
SubjectSquirtle
dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py A pokemon-N
CompetitivePokeballs
dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py A pokemon-N
MuchPokemart
dorzel@nio-mbp-dorzel: username-generator$ python generate_username.py A pokemon-N
DefensiveBulbasaur

Adding your own custom corpora

If you would like to add a body of text to be collected and considered when creating a username, make a directory in custom-corpora/. Inside the directory you can create plain text files that contain any text you wish. The username generator will automatically tag the words in the text files upon a python update-pregenerated-lists.py. This works best if each line in the text files are whole sentences.

Scraping data into custom corpora

In the tools/ dir, there are different scripts that will scrape data into .txt files in the custom-corpora/ dir.

Reddit scraping tool

To add data to the reddit custom corpus, run reddit_scrape_comments.py with the following arguments:

python reddit_scrape_comments.py <reddit_username> <reddit_password> <client_id> <client_secret>

client_id and client_secret can both be found (assuming you have created a reddit account) at:

https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps

Create an app on that page and grab the secret and id from the page.

Docker

You can build a docker container of the app with:

docker build -t username-generator -f Dockerfile .
docker run username-generator