json_decode.php

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
if ($argc == 1) {
    printf("Retrieve JSON data from specified URl and then decode.\n");
    printf("Usage: %s URL_that_returns_JSON\n", $argv[0]);
    exit(0);
}
$a = file_get_contents($argv[1]);
$a = preg_replace('/^[\r\n\(]*/', '', $a);
$a = preg_replace('/\)$/', '', $a);
//  var_dump($a);
if ($decoded = json_decode($a)) {
    var_dump($decoded);
} else  {
    echo "error = ", json_last_error_msg(), "\n";   //  require PHP >= 5.5
}