Where/how is the smart contract webassembly binary stored in NEAR protocol?

Question

How can you extract the smart contract WebAssembly binaries by exploring the NEAR protocol blockchain?

Answer 1

Example:

http --json post https://rpc.mainnet.near.org jsonrpc=2.0 id=dontcare method=query \
params:='{"request_type":"view_code","finality":"final","account_id":"contract.near"}' \
| jq -r .result.code_base64 \
| base64 --decode > contract.wasm