I want to read the text stored in the text tables[1], but the old_text field stores it as what seems to be the path to the blob. How can I get the content of the blob?

Alternately, is there any other way to access all text content (including deleted content) without requiring global rights to the API?

Thanks!

Srijan

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Text_table