PeriscopeProfileJson.sh

#PeriscopeProfileJson.sh
#Returns User Profile Json from Web Profile
#Version 1.0: Initial Release
#Version 1.1: Fixed quoting characters, optimize perl statements
#Version 1.2: Update parsing for changes in profile page

#replace myuser with the user you want to query

#line breaks added for readability 
USR=myuser; curl -sq https://www.periscope.tv/$USR \
| tail -n +2 | perl -pe 's,.*data-store="({.*})"><.*,$1,g' \
| sed -e 's/&quot;/"/g' \
| python -mjson.tool

#one-liner
USR=myuser; curl -sq https://www.periscope.tv/$USR | tail -n +2 | perl -pe 's,.*data-store="({.*})"><.*,$1,g' | sed -e 's/&quot;/"/g' | python -mjson.tool