Ushahidi Data from Community Deployments / Kyrgystan Crisis Map

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

  var data = {
    resource_id: '72a73ee9-3356-4b8f-a8a7-edd0ac9187e6', // 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()