Making real JSON from Mixpanel's dump API.

scrubadub_mixpanel.js

var takeDump = function(foo, bar, body) {
  // The "body" is the raw response from https://data.mixpanel.com API
  // At this point there are line returns (\n) separating each event and the list of events is not wrapped in an array literal ([])
  
  // Take out line returns and replace with proper comma separators
  var tight = body.replace(/[\n\r\t]/g, ',');
  
  // To return a list you've got to wrap it in an array
  // There's a trailing newline returned, hence the substring snip
  var wrapped = '[' + tight.substring(0, tight.length-1) + ']';
  
  // Finally it can be parsed a real JSON
  var properJSON = JSON.parse(wrapped);
  
  return properJSON;
}