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1. If you have a particular StackOverflow question such as:
2. When you click on the little recylcing symbol next to a question or answer "Show activity on this post", you will get to the timeline:

https://stackoverflow.com/posts/69419917/timeline#history_9281a690-64c3-4302-bb36-1ebb6dfd3ecf

3. Take the post ID that is exposed in the timeline url as above

Go to Question revision history:

https://sitename.stackexchange.com/posts/{post-id}/revisions

  • shown as the “history” link for questions and answers with at least two revisions
  • contains links to individual revisions and their source code, as well as summaries of a number of other events such as closing, reopening, (un)deleting, bounty start/end, (un)locking, tweeting, marked (not) community wiki, and merging.
4. So then you will have a URL like this:

https://stackoverflow.com/posts/69419917/revisions

5. And then the source code looks like this:

https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/9281a690-64c3-4302-bb36-1ebb6dfd3ecf/view-source

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