Dannii seeks a URL to access the raw markdown content of a post’s old revision. They encountered a 500 error using a method from a previous topic and found that only recent revisions work, but not older ones. Dannii also noted that the method doesn’t provide the raw content. tobiaseigen shared a method to get the raw content of the latest revision but couldn’t find a way to get the raw content of earlier revisions.
I don’t know if this is possible or not, but I would like to access the raw content (markdown) of a post’s old revision by URL.
I’ve tried the URL described in How to get a previous version/revision of a post through the API, but I just get {"status":500,"error":"Internal Server Error"} errors (example). Also, that topic makes it seem like it didn’t give the whole post as of that revision, but only the changes from the previous revision.
I can of course just see the old revision in the actual forum using the post’s history dialog, but you can’t simply copy it because it interleaves the left and right posts.
In case you haven’t figured this out for yourself yet, below is a way to get the raw post content of the latest revision. I don’t know how to get the raw of an earlier revision but would like to find out!