@bobhaugen that was more or less what I built it for yeah, though it's been many years since I've worked added anything to that project and right now I feel it's kinda just a half finished dump of my ideas

It does however output JSON of projects and parts of the tree:

http://collabotree.com/leafs/collabotree.json
http://collabotree.com/tree.json?leaf_id=1&leaf_parent_id=1