![steemnode.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNfuy8skgxXnAMNtM8tBjwu8Bo9ffB9bux8fcDE4WeZHg/steemnode.png)

Did you know that steemit.com's front-end (condenser) serves profile data for use in other applications via JSON? Check it out, example: [steemit.com/@username.json](https://steemit.com/@username.json). Just fill in your username and go.

SBD, STEEM, and VESTS balances are available in addition to quite a bit more.

steemit.com serves content in gzip compressed format, so you do need to load a library and pipe it in order to get valid JSON - easy enough.

I'm sure some of you will find this useful :)

This is an example and it just displays a few objects, but it's as simple as this:

```
const https = require('https');
const zlib = require('zlib');

let options = {
	host: 'steemit.com',
	path: '/@username.json'
};
    
https.get(options, function (res) {
	let json = '';
	let gunzip = zlib.createGunzip();
	res.pipe(gunzip);
	gunzip.on('data', function (chunk) {
		json += chunk;
	});
	gunzip.on('end', function () {
		if (res.statusCode === 200) {
			try {
				let data = JSON.parse(json);
				console.log('STEEM balance: ' + data.user.balance);
				console.log('SBD balance: ' + data.user.sbd_balance);
				console.log('VEST balance: ' + data.user.vesting_shares);
			} catch (e) {
				console.log('Error parsing JSON');
			}
		} else {
			console.log('Non-200 status code received: ' + res.statusCode);
		}
	}).on('error', function (err) {
		console.log('Error pulling JSON: ' + err);
	});
});

```

Enjoy and Steem On!