faker.providers.credit_card

class faker.providers.credit_card.Provider(generator)

Bases: faker.providers.BaseProvider

Implement default credit card provider for Faker.

For all methods that take card_type as an argument, a random card type will be used if the supplied value is None. The list of valid card types includes 'amex', 'diners', 'discover', 'jcb', 'jcb15', 'jcb16', 'maestro', 'mastercard', 'visa', 'visa13', 'visa16', and 'visa19'.

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credit_card_expire(start='now', end='+10y', date_format='%m/%y')

Generate a credit card expiry date.

This method uses date_time_between() under the hood to generate the expiry date, so the start and end arguments work in the same way here as it would in that method. For the actual formatting of the expiry date, strftime() is used and date_format is simply passed to that method.

Examples: 
>>> Faker.seed(0)
>>> for _ in range(5):
...     fake.credit_card_expire()
...
'02/28'
'09/28'
'04/22'
'12/25'
'04/30'
credit_card_full(card_type=None)

Generate a set of credit card details.

Examples: 
>>> Faker.seed(0)
>>> for _ in range(5):
...     fake.credit_card_full()
...
'Discover\nKatherine Fisher\n6587647593824218 11/25\nCVC: 892\n'
'VISA 19 digit\nCorey Jones\n4781565938778408012 05/28\nCVC: 097\n'
'American Express\nJohn Nguyen\n343933287115875 06/23\nCID: 4841\n'
'JCB 15 digit\nMarvin Nielsen\n213198947196593 09/25\nCVC: 423\n'
'VISA 16 digit\nAntonio Zavala\n4711220186848335 09/28\nCVC: 947\n'
credit_card_number(card_type=None)

Generate a valid credit card number.

Examples: 
>>> Faker.seed(0)
>>> for _ in range(5):
...     fake.credit_card_number()
...
'6504876475938248'
'4948924115781567'
'348778408016097'
'30535139332877'
'5358714841858395'
credit_card_provider(card_type=None)

Generate a credit card provider name.

Examples: 
>>> Faker.seed(0)
>>> for _ in range(5):
...     fake.credit_card_provider()
...
'Discover'
'Discover'
'Maestro'
'VISA 19 digit'
'JCB 15 digit'
credit_card_security_code(card_type=None)

Generate a credit card security code.

Examples: 
>>> Faker.seed(0)
>>> for _ in range(5):
...     fake.credit_card_security_code()
...
'604'
'764'
'593'
'242'
'948'