JISC Open Bibliography British National Bibliography dataset / zipped RDF XML data, appox 3 million records, early data mod...

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

  var data = {
    resource_id: '8e8f49cb-6f36-442b-b7b2-6909636a3f6d', // 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()