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

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`

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. :-)

Is there jsonp support?

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');})()

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/

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.

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

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