diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6629c05..af5c53b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -269,6 +269,8 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "log",
  "reqwest",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
  "stderrlog",
  "structopt",
 ]
@@ -875,6 +877,20 @@ name = "serde"
 version = "1.0.104"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "414115f25f818d7dfccec8ee535d76949ae78584fc4f79a6f45a904bf8ab4449"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde_derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "serde_derive"
+version = "1.0.104"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "128f9e303a5a29922045a830221b8f78ec74a5f544944f3d5984f8ec3895ef64"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_json"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 10a9408..b577138 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ log = "0.4"
 stderrlog = "0.4"
 structopt = "0.3"
 reqwest = { version = "0.10", features = ["blocking", "json"] }
+serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
+serde_json = "1.0"
 
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
 libc = "0.2"
diff --git a/src/app.rs b/src/app.rs
index 1f105fa..6ea779c 100644
--- a/src/app.rs
+++ b/src/app.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ use log::{debug, error, info, trace, warn};
 use crate::errors::*;
 use crate::gitignore::Gitignore;
 use crate::helpers::{git_dir, BoilerplateOpts, HELP_TEMPLATE};
+use crate::template::*;
 
 /// The verbosity level when no `-q` or `-v` arguments are given, with `0` being `-q`
 pub const DEFAULT_VERBOSITY: u64 = 1;
@@ -100,16 +101,16 @@ fn run_get(lang: &str) -> Result<()> {
 /// Runs the command `list-templates`
 fn run_list_templates() -> Result<()> {
     let client = Client::new();
-    let mut res = client
+    let res = client
         .get("https://api.github.com/repos/github/gitignore/contents//")
         .header(ACCEPT, "application/jsonapplication/vnd.github.v3+json")
         .header(CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json")
         .header(USER_AGENT, format!("{} {}", DEFAULT_USER_AGENT, env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")))
         .send()
         .chain_err(|| "Error while sending request to query all templates")?;
-    println!("{:?}", &res);
-    let body = res.text().chain_err(|| "json")?;
-    println!("{:?}", &body);
+    let body: Vec<Template> = res.json().chain_err(|| "json")?;
+
+    body.iter().filter(|t| t.is_gitignore_template()).for_each(|t| println!("{}", t.pretty_name()));
     Ok(())
 }
 
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 50e881d..ee9c270 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ This project used [rust-cli-boilerplate](https://github.com/ssokolow/rust-cli-bo
 
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate error_chain;
-
 extern crate reqwest;
+extern crate serde;
 
 // stdlib imports
 use std::convert::TryInto;
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ use structopt::{clap, StructOpt};
 mod app;
 mod gitignore;
 mod helpers;
+mod template;
 
 /// Boilerplate to parse command-line arguments, set up logging, and handle bubbled-up `Error`s.
 ///
diff --git a/src/template.rs b/src/template.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..60f347c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/template.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+//! This module contains structs for working with the github templates
+
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+#[derive(Default, Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Template {
+    pub name:         String,
+    pub path:         String,
+    pub sha:          String,
+    pub size:         i64,
+    pub url:          String,
+    #[serde(rename = "html_url")]
+    pub html_url:     String,
+    #[serde(rename = "git_url")]
+    pub git_url:      String,
+    #[serde(rename = "download_url")]
+    pub download_url: Option<String>,
+    #[serde(rename = "type")]
+    pub type_field:   String,
+    #[serde(rename = "_links")]
+    pub links:        Links,
+}
+
+#[derive(Default, Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct Links {
+    #[serde(rename = "self")]
+    pub self_field: String,
+    pub git:        String,
+    pub html:       String,
+}
+
+impl Template {
+    /// Checks if this template file is a gitignore template file
+    pub fn is_gitignore_template(&self) -> bool { self.name.ends_with(".gitignore") }
+
+    /// Returns the name of the file without the .gitignore ending
+    ///
+    /// if `!self.is_gitignore_template()` the whole `self.name` is returned
+    pub fn pretty_name(&self) -> &str {
+        if let Some(dot_index) = self.name.rfind(".") {
+            return &self.name[0..dot_index];
+        }
+        return self.name.as_str();
+    }
+}