diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/common/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient b/confluent_osdeploy/common/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
index 930ccd14..f2e9d3e1 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/common/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/common/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         data = None
     if outbin:
         with open(outbin, 'ab+') as outf:
-            reader = HTTPSClient(json=json).grab_url(
+            reader = HTTPSClient(usejson=usejson).grab_url(
                 sys.argv[1], data, returnrsp=True)
             chunk = reader.read(16384)
             while chunk: