Download all questions and answers for individual users and save into TeX/pdf

Question

I would like to download all my answers in MSE and save them into a LaTeX script or a pdf file.

This answer 1 provides a method to download all the answers in CSV file (not LaTeX script or pdf file).

This answer 2 seems helpful. However, the tool provided in the answer does not work anymore.

I wonder whether

• there exists a tool that takes as input the CSV file (obtained from the method in the answer 1) and create a LaTeX script
• or there exists a more direct method that give me the LaTeX script of all my answers?

Answer 1

Not an answer but I wanted to post some thoughts that a solution would need to consider, if someone wants to have a go...

1. I downloaded all my posts from answer 1 and got a 3MB .csv file. I've never opened a 3MB TeX file before, does it work? If not then perhaps need to sort and batch.
2. MathJax is not $\LaTeX$: There are certain constructs that are allowed in MathJax but not in $\LaTeX$. For example $$ \begin{align} ... \end{align}$$. Another is $\sum_{\text{newlines} \\ \text{in subscripts}}$ $\sum_{\text{newlines} \\ \text{in subscripts}}$ (this requires \substack in LaTeX) and similarly $\text{new lines} \\ \text{in math mode}$, $$\text{even}\\\text{in display mode.}$$ Those throw errors in $\LaTeX$. Another one is that \color works differently here: ${\color{red}red}$${\color{red}red}$ works in $\LaTeX$. But $\color{red}{red}$$\color{red}{red}$ works in both so I think this isn't an issue for the MathJax $\to \LaTeX$ direction.
3. MathJax on Math.SE doesn't have an explicit list of packages; one will need to check what packages are needed in the $\LaTeX$ preamble.
4. \newcommand, \renewcommand and \let across different questions/answers may conflict in the resulting .tex so you will need to e.g. add some \let\...\relax at the end of posts.
5. Posts on Math.SE are not written with only MathJax: Links and images are written in Markdown. In particular images are not included in the csv file download. Markdown Tables might be a bother to format correctly.
6. Actually, looking at the .csv file, it seems to not have exactly the source I wrote, but some HTML. An example from my .csv file below. So that will also need to be parsed out.

<p><span class=""math-container"">$$C_1(1+||x||^2)^k \leq \sum_{|\alpha| \leq k} x^{2\alpha} \leq C_2 (1+||x||^2)^k,$$</span></p>

In addition some questions' comments are IMO vital to understanding the post, so that's a good nice-to-have.

I think the easiest would probably to make a script that visits each of the questions and just prints the page to PDF. (Don't do too many pages at once if you don't want to be banned from SE) This will give you PDF files but no .tex file.

If you need a .tex file you will probably want to go from the csv file, TexSoup looks like it might be useful.