# Automated pod creation?
**URL:** https://forum.solidproject.org/t/automated-pod-creation/1834
**Category:** Become a Pod Provider
**Created:** [May 16, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/automated-pod-creation/1834 "2019-05-16T09:53:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@George](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/George)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/automated-pod-creation/1834/1 "2019-05-16T09:53:53Z")
I am looking to create several hundred fake pods and profiles on a local server and add some fake data to them to do some testing for a use case (all the pods sharing one server or, each in an individual dockerized Solid server etc).
Obviously I have no intention to create the pods manually even once, let alone every time a different configuration will be tested. But haven’t come across of a way to do this programmatically the way containers or files can be created by the REST api.
**Other than** using selenium to create the pods from the browser is there another way to do it that feels less like … hillbilly engineering ?
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### Author:  [@jeffz](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/jeffz)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/automated-pod-creation/1834/2 "2019-05-18T04:34:30Z")
There is a section in the part of the Solid spec showing best practices in client apps that has a section [Creating New Accounts](https://github.com/solid/solid-spec/blob/master/recommendations-client.md) which has some instructions on creating new acccounts. Basically emulate the registration form and submit it. I haven’t tried it so I don’t know if it can work outside a browser but it looks like it might. Hope this helps
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### Author:  [@George](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/George)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/automated-pod-creation/1834/3 "2019-05-20T08:21:13Z")
Thank you for the reply I hadn’t thought to look there for a possible solution.