Hello, gang:

I was wondering if there was an API available that would let me fetch the raw content of a perlmonks node?

Every once in a while, I see a node that I'm interested in dismantling, but it gets a bit butchered by the HTMLification/templating/(or something). The latest example is Reaped: Re: .pl to .exe, where I'm wanting to figure out just what the code is doing. But with the HTML entities, font rendering and whatnot, I can't really tell exactly what the code *was*. So rather than hand-editing it and trying to put it in a form that I can analyze, I'd love to be able to occasionally fetch just the raw node contents.

I did a little googling and trying to browse the SiteDocClan nodes, but I'm not a member, so there's a limit to what I can see (e.g., I can't see SDC To-Do Wiki, SiteDocClan wiki, the PMDev, editor, cabalist and pedagogue wikis...).

I've found some public information, like What XML generators are currently available on PerlMonks?, WWW::PerlMonks, but I didn't see anything that provides the raw node content. I'm not asking for a new feature if it's not available, just a pointer to it if it exists.

Thanks!

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.