diff --git a/striker-ui-api/routes/files.js b/striker-ui-api/routes/files.js
index c83cfa83..50f16b8b 100644
--- a/striker-ui-api/routes/files.js
+++ b/striker-ui-api/routes/files.js
@@ -6,25 +6,36 @@ const router = express.Router();
 router.get('/', (request, response) => {
   console.log('Calling CLI script to get data.');
 
+  const scriptName = 'striker-access-database';
   const childProcess = spawnSync(
-    'striker-access-database',
-    ['--query', 'SELECT * FROM files;'],
+    scriptName,
+    [
+      '--query',
+      'SELECT file_uuid, file_name, file_size, file_type, file_md5sum FROM files;',
+    ],
     {
       timeout: 10000,
       encoding: 'utf-8',
     },
   );
+  let stdoutJSON;
 
-  if (childProcess.error)
-  {
-      response.status(500);
+  if (childProcess.error) {
+    console.log('Error:', childProcess.error);
+
+    response.status(500).send();
   }
 
-  console.log('error:', childProcess.error);
-  console.log('stdout:', childProcess.stdout);
-  console.log('stderr:', childProcess.stderr);
+  console.log('Stdout:', childProcess.stdout);
+  console.log('Stderr:', childProcess.stderr);
+
+  try {
+    stdoutJSON = JSON.parse(childProcess.stdout);
+  } catch (jsonParseError) {
+    console.warn(`Failed to parse output of script ${scriptName}.`);
+  }
 
-  response.status(200).send(childProcess.stdout);
+  response.status(200).send(stdoutJSON);
 });
 
 module.exports = router;