Obtaining blog copy from wp_posts ?

Can i get normal text from wp_posts at all ? Is there any tool to take out all the html/css and what have you and just be left with the copy ? I want some old blog posts that i forgot to save before installing a new elementor theme.

I’m having a hell of a time installing wp on a lamp dev server on ubuntu. The wp-config file just won’t connect to the database for some reason. Apache is running, mysql is running, php is working.

I can connect from the command line to mysql with the same details as in the wp-config file. But when wordpress tries to make the connection I get ‘site can’t be reached’. And it’s all because of the wp-config file ….

So I guess that’s two questions. Sorry.