Show HN - Random business from the INC5000 list in json (for business ideas)

[Kilimanjaro]

Use this bookmarklet in Chrome for pretty printing json:

    javascript:(function(){document.body.firstChild.innerHTML=JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(document.body.firstChild.innerHTML),null,'\t');})()

[code4pay]

If you are a Perl user you can do curl -s random-inc5000.herokuapp.com | perl -MJSON -e 'print to_json(from_json(<>),{pretty=>1})'

Just thought I'd try it out of interest. :-)

[flashingpumpkin]

Similarly, with Python:

  curl -s http://random-inc5000.herokuapp.com/ | python -m simplejson.tool

I've got the last bit aliased as `json` though.

[keenerd]

If you are a shell or Arch[1] user,

curl -s random-inc5000.herokuapp.com | jshon

Though jshon[2] is really made for extracting elements from the entire list of companies in one pass.

[1] pacman -S jshon

[2] http://kmkeen.com/jshon/

[WillyF]

This is also good for job searching and client seeking--especially if you're a web developer/designer. The quality of the websites of Inc 5000 companies is astoundingly low, and I'm sure an enterprising person could do really well pitching their skills to these companies.

[chrisohara]

Good for some quick business ideas..

If you're a node.js user, install the command line JSON pretty printer `sudo npm install -g json` and then you can do this:

`curl -s random-inc5000.herokuapp.com | json`

[AlexMuir]

Er. Why didn't you just format it at your end?

[steelaz]

php -r "print_r(json_decode(file_get_contents('http://random-inc5000.herokuapp.com)));"

[chrisohara]

Here's the code - https://github.com/chriso/inc5000

[jasonkostempski]

Is there jsonp support?

[chrisohara]

Looks like someone added it in a pull request: http://random-inc5000.herokuapp.com/?callback=foo