diff --git a/scripts/json_parser.py b/scripts/json_parser.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..87f376c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/json_parser.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import dirtyjson
+from ai_functions import fix_json
+
+def fix_and_parse_json(json_str: str, try_to_fix_with_gpt: bool = True):
+    try:
+        return dirtyjson.loads(json_str)
+    except Exception as e:
+        if try_to_fix_with_gpt:
+          # Now try to fix this up using the ai_functions
+          return fix_json(json_str, None, True)
+        else:
+          raise e
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diff --git a/scripts/requirements-alternative.txt b/scripts/requirements-alternative.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a65dd4c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/requirements-alternative.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# I wasn't having any luck installing the requirements.txt file in Mac or Linux, 
+# so I unpinned and installed, and got these versions:
+beautifulsoup4==4.9.3
+colorama==0.4.6
+dirtyjson==1.0.8
+# The biggest difference is docker 5 instead of 6, because of this silliness:
+# The conflict is caused by:
+#     The user requested requests>=2.26.0
+#     docker 6.0.1 depends on requests>=2.26.0
+#     googlesearch-python 1.1.0 depends on requests==2.25.1
+docker==5.0.3
+googlesearch-python==1.1.0
+openai==0.27.2
+playsound==1.3.0
+readability-lxml==0.8.1
+requests==2.25.1
diff --git a/scripts/requirements.txt b/scripts/requirements.txt
index 0e2e52a7..30296486 100644
--- a/scripts/requirements.txt
+++ b/scripts/requirements.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 beautifulsoup4==4.9.3
 colorama==0.4.6
+dirtyjson==1.0.8
+docker==6.0.1
 googlesearch_python==1.1.0
 openai==0.27.0
 playsound==1.2.2
 readability_lxml==0.8.1
 requests==2.25.1
-docker==6.0.1