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by PeterisP 2877 days ago
Open it in any decent plaintext editor/viewer, it'll likely have support for 'prettyprinting' json, and it'll be readable.

If you want to 'do stuff' with the data, then JSON is a very (IMHO most, but your mileage may vary) reasonable format; unless that data really is just a single flat table, it would be hard to blame them from picking this format.