diff --git a/awx/scripts/inventory.py b/awx/scripts/inventory.py
index 79dac87725..ae58ba9b85 100755
--- a/awx/scripts/inventory.py
+++ b/awx/scripts/inventory.py
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ class InventoryScript(object):
         url = urlparse.urljoin(url, url_path)
         response = requests.get(url, auth=auth)
         response.raise_for_status()
-        sys.stdout.write(response.content)
+        sys.stdout.write(json.dumps(json.loads(response.content),
+                                    indent=self.indent) + '\n')
 
     def run(self):
         try: