diff --git a/awx/scripts/inventory.py b/awx/scripts/inventory.py
index dc7e117351..d864250b1a 100755
--- a/awx/scripts/inventory.py
+++ b/awx/scripts/inventory.py
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ class InventoryScript(object):
         url = urlparse.urljoin(url, url_path)
         response = requests.get(url, auth=auth)
         response.raise_for_status()
-        sys.stdout.write(json.dumps(response.json(), indent=self.indent) + '\n')
+        sys.stdout.write(json.dumps(json.loads(response.content),
+                         indent=self.indent) + '\n')
 
     def run(self):
         try: