diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 20f3123f..72fad64c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -295,3 +295,20 @@ and code here might need to be updated if you are using Python 2.6+.
 
 * You'll likely want to set `LOGIN_URL` to `/login/` so that users are properly redirected to your Twitter login handler when you use `@login_required` in other parts of your Django app.
 * You can also set `AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'mytwitterapp.Profile'` so that you can easily access the Twitter OAuth token/secret for that user using the `User.get_profile()` method in Django.
+
+# OAuth2 Example
+
+You might have thought from the name "oauth2" that this libary supported
+the OAuth2 standard. You would have been wrong, except for the fine efforts
+of https://github.com/dgouldin. Here is how you use it:
+
+    import oauth2
+    client = oauth2.Client2(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, AUTHORIZATION_URL)
+    auth_url = client.authorization_url(redirect_uri = CALLBACK_URL)
+    print auth_url
+    # navigate to auth_url, to obtain code
+    token = client.access_token(code, CALLBACK_URL, endpoint='token')["access_token"]
+    print token
+    # use token to call secure APIs
+    (headers, content) = client.request(RESOURCE_URL, access_token=token)
+    ...
diff --git a/oauth2/__init__.py b/oauth2/__init__.py
index a3a4f687..9f4b45ba 100644
--- a/oauth2/__init__.py
+++ b/oauth2/__init__.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import hmac
 import binascii
 import httplib2
+import json
 
 try:
     from urlparse import parse_qs, parse_qsl
@@ -739,6 +740,13 @@ def _split_url_string(param_str):
             parameters[key] = urllib.unquote(val[0])
         return parameters
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _get_json(data):
+        """Turn json response into hash."""
+        result = json.loads(data)
+        return result
+
+
     def authorization_url(self, redirect_uri=None, params=None, state=None,
         immediate=None, endpoint='authorize'):
         """Get the URL to redirect the user for client authorization
@@ -800,7 +808,11 @@ def access_token(self, code, redirect_uri, params=None, secret_type=None,
             headers=headers)
         if not response.status == 200:
             raise Error(content)
-        response_args = Client2._split_url_string(content)
+
+        if "json" in response['content-type']:
+            response_args = Client2._get_json(content)
+        else:
+            response_args = Client2._split_url_string(content)
 
         error = response_args.pop('error', None)
         if error is not None: