How to download your online data from google, twitter, facebook?

   We people are living in the age of information both ours own and the public data.  We people are completely dependent on internet and the services provided by the giants like google, yahoo, facebook, dropbox, twitter, flickr so and so...

  Privacy of people and their online data becomes talk of the world(! town..), many online service providers(especially social networking media) give provision to their users to download their data.  We will see how to download data from google, facebook & twitter.

1.  Google



  By google's takeout , one can download his online data of google services like drive, g+, blogger, contacts, youtube etc (Ref the image about complete services).

  Once you go to the google's takeout homepage you are prompted to enter your username and password(yes! your gmail account).  After login you will see a webpage like the one in right side, either you can select all the services or few particular services.

Note:  Sadly google not provides the google reader data :(






2.   Facebook

• Login into your facebook account (or click here to go to settings directly.)
• Click on the wrench symbol(on right top) and select account settings.
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• Select General tab, click on the Downlaod a copy of your Facebook data link.
• Click on the Start my archive button.

3.  Twitter

• Login into your twitter account (or click here to go settings directly).
• goto settings (click wrench symbol on right top & select settings) 
• scroll down & click on Request your archive  

  Once the archive is ready, download link will be sent to your email registered with twitter.
   

How to generate package download script using synaptic?

This post describes how to install linux (.deb)packages into a linux machine which have no/low speed internet connection[In linux one should have a good internet connection to get connected to repository to install any new packages].  Ofcourse this will be achieved only through a another linux machine(of same distro&same version unless you know how to modify /etc/apt/sources.list and update the linux machine) that has good internet connection like your Relative's/friend's machine or a linux box in browsing center etc.  I am explaining the following thing with BOSS GNU/Linux 4.0(savir version name).

We can achieve the installation of a package into a machine with low/no internet connection

Method 1:

1. The machine in which you want to install  go  System -> Adminstration -> Synaptic Package Manager

2. Select the package which you want to install.  

 Note: Synaptic itself selects all the other dependency packages that are needed to install the package you selected.  You can see a green color tick mark, those packages are going to be installed

3. Now click on File -> Generate Download script, give a file name for the script and select path to save it.

4. Keep the resultant file with you & execute that shell script file in a machine which have the internet connection, it will downloads all the packages(.deb files) that are needed to install the packages you selected.  

5. Copy all those files to your linux machine and install through terminal as follows

$cd /path_to/deb_files/directory

$sudo dpkg -i *.deb

6. Now the packages is installed successfully thats all.

Method 2:

Another way, is install the package which have a good internet connection and copy the .deb files downloaded for that installation, use it in your system

1. First clean the archives directory

$sudo apt-get clean

2. Install the package which you want using

$sudo apt-get install <package_name>

3. copy all the .deb files from the /var/cache/apt/archives directory to your removable media(pendrive)

$mkdir /media/<your_perndrive_moutn_point>/deb_directory

$sudo cp /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /media/<your_perndrive_moutn_point>/deb_directory

4. Insert the pendrive in your machine and do the following

$cd /media/your_pendrive_mount_point/deb_directory

$sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Thats all the packages are installed in your machine...  This two methods are useful when you try to install huge packages like office, gimp, blender etc...

any how Methode 1 is best one as it creates the script to download the .deb packages that actually is needed to install into your machine, and it doesn't install only downloads.