If we're talking Wikimedia Mediawiki instances, yes, the API is your
only way forward - for performance reasons the text content is stored
in a totally different set of servers that (to my knowledge) even paid
researchers don't get to mess around with. Alternately you could take
a look at
https://dumps.wikimedia.org if slightly outdated information
is okay to you.
On 29 July 2015 at 18:58, Srijan Kumar <srijankedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
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
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