British National Bibliography (BNB) - Basic Representation / BNB_Basic_RDFXML_Feb12_f6.zip

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

  var data = {
    resource_id: '01a0ad3b-31b3-44fe-8fc4-ba92e29a215e', // 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()