diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a54d0c8170f..e683493662a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ Modules include:
    * command -- runs commands, giving output, return codes, and run time info
    * ping - just returns if the system is up or not
    * facter - retrieves facts about the host OS
+   * ohai - similar to facter, but returns structured data
    * copy - add files to remote systems
 
 Playbooks
diff --git a/library/ohai b/library/ohai
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..968c0472367
--- /dev/null
+++ b/library/ohai
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# requires 'ohai' to be installed
+
+import json
+import subprocess
+
+cmd = subprocess.Popen("/usr/bin/ohai", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+out, err = cmd.communicate()
+
+# try to cleanup the JSON, for some reason facter --json doesn't need this hack
+print json.dumps(json.loads(out))