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 Alternately you could take a look at https://dumps.wikimedia.org if slightly outdated information is okay to you.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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
