getting the source text

getting the Markdown-formatted source text of a Stack Exchange answer

Attention

The source text may include ASCII control characters and HTML character entity references. It is possible to convert the HTML character entity references to UTF-8 characters.

Info

• foo represents the answer identifier, for example 1732454.
• bar represents the answer site, for example stackoverflow.

Use http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/answers/foo?order=desc&sort=activity&site=bar&filter=!.UDo6l2ikDi7iGlf.

prior work

• The method of getting the source text of a Stack Exchange answer was introduced to me by an answer on Meta Stack Exchange by user259867.

licensing

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