Is it allowed to download mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions or chats for offline reading?
If so, how could that be done automatically with Mathematica code?
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Related Meta.SE post: Stack Exchange Data Explorer and Stack Exchange Data Dumps should include public chat room messagesFranck Dernoncourt– Franck Dernoncourt2019-03-30 00:52:51 +00:00Commented Mar 30, 2019 at 0:52
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There is a link to the content license at the bottom of every page.
There is a sanctioned "data dump" at https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
You can download the file for Mathematica at https://archive.org/download/stackexchange/mathematica.stackexchange.com.7z
See also https://data.stackexchange.com
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Very interesing. Is there something similar for the chat ?andre314– andre3142016-12-29 13:17:47 +00:00Commented Dec 29, 2016 at 13:17
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Not that I am aware of. @andre2016-12-29 14:59:29 +00:00Commented Dec 29, 2016 at 14:59
Yes, it is permitted. But why write Mathematica code to do it? Why not just use tools provided by your internet browser. AFAIK every browser has such tools. I use Safari on OS X and it certainly does because I quite often use them.
Are you considering something like scraping the whole site on a daily basis?
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I wrote a SE API connection in Mathematica so I can get question info and such automatically and I needed import tools so I could pull down page info. It's also useful when people have dumped info in an answer, such as the ones on FE tokens. In terms of automatically trawling the site, I can see the use for chat rooms and things which update often (and have actually written some of that code too).b3m2a1– b3m2a12016-12-23 17:28:50 +00:00Commented Dec 23, 2016 at 17:28
I've created a prerelease alpha SE paclet that can be used to view a Stack Exchange question. It is located at:
https://github.com/carlwoll/Stack-Exchange-Stylesheet/releases/tag/v0.1-alpha
Download the .paclet file, and then run:
PacletInstall[file]
To use, do:
<<StackExchange`
StackExchangeView["http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/124583/is-anonymous-pure-function-a-scoping-construct#140256"]
It is also possible to use style key tabbing (tab at the start of a cell), shift-enter and right click to modify "StackExchange" styled cells to a markdown version, a hybrid WYSIWIG version, or a deployed version. Feed back is welcomed.
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Very fun. I think WRI should really write a general
XMLObjecttoNotebookconverter (I say this because I notice the headers in, e.g., this don't actually get handled). Also I wrote a general SE api connection in Mathematica code if you want to look at that to potentially stick in the paclet.b3m2a1– b3m2a12017-03-18 19:36:14 +00:00Commented Mar 18, 2017 at 19:36