I have just been working through this splendid answer to my question.
I would like to copy the words as well as the code into a Mathematica notebook. I usually do this by putting the words in a text cell (Alt 7). However, there are i) equations that don't copy and ii) this is laborious.
Is there a way of copying the whole answer and getting into a notebook easily?
In version 14.3, Mathematica got a functionality to import Markdown. Since all answers in StackExchange are written using Markdown, this is a simple way to import them to your Mathematica notebook.
Here is a simple snippet, which uses StackExchange Data API to obtain the contents of the answer. There is also a small fix such that all code blocks are by default treated as Mathematica code (otherwise, they will not be rendered as Input cells).
importStackExchangeAnswer[answerid_] := Module[{url, json, markdown},
url = "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/answers/" <> ToString[answerid] <>
"?site=mathematica&filter=!-)QWsboN0d_T";
json = Import[url, "JSON"];
markdown = ResourceFunction["DecodeHTMLCharacterEntities"][
Lookup[First[Lookup[json, "items"]], "body_markdown"]];
Internal`InheritedBlock[{MarkdownTools`Private`getWithDefault},
MarkdownTools`Private`getWithDefault[l_List, "Language", ""] :=
MarkdownTools`Private`getWithDefault[l, "Language", "WL"];
ImportString[markdown, {"Markdown", "NotebookObject"}]
]
]
From the URL, you obtain the ID of the answer and then evaluate
importStackExchangeAnswer[318477]
python with no arguments., This will install it from app store. Once installed, then type pip install pyzmq also from terminal. Now it works.
json = Import[url, "JSON"] do not have item called body_markdown, so this is why this command Lookup[First[Lookup[json, "items"]], "body_markdown"] can fail sometimes. You might want to add a check if body_markdown is present before calling ResourceFunction, else it generate an error. I do not know anything about this stackexchange API, I just found this trying your code on some answers and question and some fail due to missing body_markdown