Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 08:55:28 AM

I scrape posts as a guest, without logging in. That means I only see HTML, there is no BBCode.
The only way to see BBCode of a post would be by clicking "edit" (for my own posts) or "quote" for posts from other users. And that's only possible if the topic isn't locked.
I guess the forum database stores posts as BBCode, but that's above my pay grade.

Well one solution is first making a dummy bitcointalk account; to get a post quote that's the template:

Code:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=post;quote=POST_NUMBER;topic=TOPIC_NUMBER;sesc=SESSION_TOKEN

after replace the three fields we get a link where we can get the the content of the textarea html tag which contains the bbcode of the post.

Ofcourse since it's a dummy account it won't have posts so

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 08:55:28 AM

clicking "edit" (for my own posts)

isn't needed

It seems like a decent amount of work and effort is needed but now that I think of it does the benefits justify it? I don't know