pretty much unreadable

Probably because it is not intended to be read by humans. JSON parsers will have no problem with lack of irrelevant white space, so why bother adding white space? Compare with the HTML delivered by the Google start pages, or the "compressed" version of jQuery. Both are size-optimized input for the browser's parser, not intended to be read by humans in this form.

My guess is that the JSON blob is loaded into a web page or into an appllication that parses the data and generates a nice, human readable view of the data.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^2: parse html for specific things by afoken
in thread parse html for specific things by Gtforce

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