The Atlas of Canada Base Maps 7.5M / Lat/Long 1:20,000,000

A simple ajax (JSONP) request to the data API using jQuery.

  var data = {
    resource_id: '6eb36ce5-b1bc-4950-ab6a-9985080839a3', // the resource id
    limit: 5, // get 5 results
    q: 'jones' // query for 'jones'
  };
  $.ajax({
    url: 'http://thedatahub.org/api/action/datastore_search',
    data: data,
    dataType: 'jsonp',
    success: function(data) {
      alert('Total results found: ' + data.result.total)
    }
  });

import urllib
url = 'http://thedatahub.org/api/action/datastore_search?limit=5&q=title:jones'
fileobj = urllib.urlopen(url)
print fileobj.read()